Press Launch
[Copenhagen, Denmark, June 19, 2024] The Autonomous Networks Summit was held throughout DTW 2024. Distinguished visitors, together with executives and representatives from China Cellular, TM Discussion board, Vodafone, Telefonica, Huawei, Ericsson, and AsiaInfo, in addition to Professor Joseph Sifakis, the winner of the 2007 Turing Award, delivered speeches and engaged in discussions concerning the Stage 4 improvement path. Through the summit, trade companions collectively launched the Autonomous Networks Stage 4 trade blueprint: high-value situations.
This report introduces the Autonomous Networks (AN) Stage 4 trade blueprint, which incorporates the imaginative and prescient and targets, worth situations, expertise structure, and evolution path. It serves as a useful reference for communications service suppliers (CSPs) trying to plan and deploy AN Stage 4. TM Discussion board has chosen 15 high-value situations based mostly on service and operations worth and expertise maturity for CSPs to prioritize when implementing Stage 4. Moreover, TM Discussion board has proposed the mixing of AI and GenAI into the three-layer AN structure to develop role-specific copilots and scenario-specific brokers. Moreover, TM Discussion board has outlined the general AN Stage 4 evolution plan. The plan focuses on attaining single-domain closed-loop autonomy in upkeep and optimization situations in section 1. In section 2, the plan focuses on implementing end-to-end closed-loop autonomy in complicated situations.
Determine 1. Launch Ceremony – Autonomous Networks Stage 4 Trade Blueprint
Through the occasion themed ‘L4 is Coming’, a various group of visitors shared their ideas on Stage 4 high-value situations, key challenges, options, and sensible experiences. The discussions centered across the journey in direction of attaining Stage 4.
Within the welcome speech, Nik Willetts, TM Discussion board CEO, mentioned, “ As one in all TM Discussion board Missions, Autonomous Networks not solely enhance the O&M effectivity and consumer expertise, but additionally allows operators to effectively innovate new providers and merchandise, and unlock the brand new income alternatives.”
Dr Li Huidi, Vice President of China Cellular, emphasised in his speech that “As 5G, AI and different applied sciences rapidly develop, we’re writing a brand new chapter of historical past. To attain AN Stage 4, we suggest the next recommendations. First, we should seize the alternatives for innovation and encourage numerous organizations to collaborate on the event of an AN requirements system. Second, we should advance trade collaboration and develop a brand new ecosystem for converged improvement. Then, we should broadly promote worldwide collaboration based mostly on the idea of mutual advantages.”
“Autonomous Networks are a complicated integration of AI and networks, and Extremely Autonomous Networks have to be achieved section by section. We should combine an AI agent structure to networks, whereas guaranteeing reliable techniques and community group intelligence.” mentioned Professor Joseph Sifakis, whereas presenting his options to AN L4+ technical challenges.
As a consultant of main distributors, Dang Wenshuan, Huawei’s Chief Technique Architect, acknowledged, “Autonomous Networks are presently witnessing super progress. We recommend that the trade take Stage 4 as a brand new start line and cling to 5 ideas, that are single-domain autonomy, cross-domain collaboration, value-driven, visualization, and productization. We must always develop scenario-specific AI brokers and role-specific copilot apps as merchandise {and professional} providers to attain a quantum leap to Autonomous Networks Stage 4.”
Reaching Stage 4 will likely be a gradual and long-term course of that requires step-by-step and phase-by-phase implementation. The Stage 4 trade blueprint is anticipated to function a useful information for the trade because it progresses in direction of Stage 4. All trade stakeholders are devoted to working collectively to drive the transformation of the telecom trade in direction of Extremely Autonomous Networks.
About Autonomous Networks Summit
Autonomous Networks (AN) was collectively proposed by TM Discussion board and trade companions, together with carriers and distributors in 2019, aiming to make providers faster, cheaper and easier to deploy and handle. After 5 years of improvement, AN has achieved outstanding milestones in trade consensus, standardization and sensible implementation. Autonomous Networks Summit is a communication platform for trade leaders to share their practices, ideas, and viewpoints round AN and talk about learn how to collaborate to advance AN improvement.
