Utilizing Cisco's Self-Optimizing Network solutions to manage and
support the massive growth in data and voice traffic
BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 25, 2018
(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mobile World
Congress - With mobile data consumption surpassing
usage of the U.S. and China in 20171, mobile
service providers in India are working to enhance their network
infrastructure to manage and support the growth surge and ensure
quality of customer experience.
Bharti Airtel (Airtel), India's
largest telecommunications services provider, and Cisco have joined
forces to improve customer experience by taking their SON
collaboration to next level.
SON is now carrying out
optimization based on customer experience and predictive analytics
apart from the traditional approach of responding to network
degradations.
SON self-healing applications have
been enriched for taking proactive actions in near real time, using
predictive machine learning and interworking of SON with NOC tools,
PM analytics & customer experience analytics platforms.
Cisco and Airtel are continuously
working together to identify new use cases and enhancing SON
capabilities of deployed platform.
"Our collaboration on this project
with Cisco has helped us to dynamically adjust our network during
exponential increase in voice and data traffic," said Abhay Savargaonkar, director, Networks, Bharti
Airtel. "We are now taking SON to next level by
integrating it with other data sources and machine learning
capabilities. This is a path breaking step to put more intelligence
in the network and enable us to enhance real-time experience of our
consumers."
"Airtel is building a completely
automated network platform that self-monitors, adjusts, and
modifies without manual intervention," said Yvette Kanouff, senior vice president, general
manager, Service Provider Business, Cisco. "Working
together, we designed an open, hyper-programmable architecture that
consolidates Airtel's multi-vendor, multi-domain network into a
sleek, agile, unified system capable of scaling to meet the intense
demands spanning in and outside its region."
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About Bharti
Airtel
Bharti Airtel Limited is a leading global telecommunications
company with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa.
Headquartered in New Delhi, India, the company ranks amongst the
top 4 mobile service providers globally in terms of subscribers. In
India, the company's product offerings include 2G, 3G and 4G
wireless services, mobile commerce, fixed line services, high speed
DSL broadband, IPTV, DTH, enterprise services including national
& international long-distance services to carriers. In the rest
of the geographies, it offers 2G, 3G wireless services and mobile
commerce. Bharti Airtel had over 307 million customers across its
operations at the end of November 2014.
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