PRESS RELEASE
On September 20, 2023, TM Discussion board, organized the Autonomous Networks Summit 2023 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Esteemed business leaders, world-leading communications service suppliers, and suppliers convened to share their insights and views. Director Autonomous Networks, Telefónica, Juan Manuel Caro attended the convention and delivered a keynote speech titled “Accelerating Telefónica Community Autonomy”.
The director mentioned:”1) Agility, Intelligence, Effectivity, High quality, Sustainability are a set of Program Foundational Drivers guiding us in our Transformation journey, Specializing in single autonomous use circumstances first and AI, then progressing to extra complicated, cross-domain use circumstances; 2) Defining an automation structure (Community Mind Coronary heart and methods of working) and hierarchy based mostly in AI algorithms embedded in each layer; 3) Established government committee with our CTIO and we dedicated a 3-year plan with KPI based mostly on autonomous community, autonomy, sustainability objectives and high quality objectives.”
Telefónica Autonomous Community Journey (ANJ)
Telefónica launched a program referred to as Autonomous Community Journey (ANJ) in 2021. The objective is to attempt for AN administration not solely from the viewpoint of accelerating autonomy, but in addition contemplating the required administration of information, structure and enablers, plus an organizational construction and reskilled employees. This have to be completed with out forgetting fundamental factors equivalent to safety and sustainability. So as to have the ability to monitor the extent of automation and intelligence, a technique for calculating the proportion of automation and the extent of autonomy has been outlined (based mostly on TM Discussion board’s ANL methodology).
Telefónica is making use of this program in all its working firms in Europe and HispAm. As well as, Telefónica actively participates within the definition of requirements, improvement of use circumstances, and collaboration with the principle standards-development organizations (SDOs) equivalent to TM Discussion board, ETSI, GSMA, 3GPP and ITU-T.
Telefónica’s ANL follow
Telefónica has tailored the suggestions of the main SDOs relating to ANL to the person traits of its community and carried out a technique to acquire the general worth of the ANL. The dimensions of Telefónica is proven in Determine 1.
Determine 1: Telefónica’s ANL scale
The dimensions is used as the inspiration for a questionnaire that, when utilized to every of the processes outlined throughout the evaluated domains, calculates a last rating from 0 to five. This rating offers the autonomy stage of the operator. This questionnaire is split into the 5 phases of the closed loop – consciousness, evaluation, resolution, execution and intents. Inside every stage, there are generic duties that handle the extent of automation and others that handle the extent and kind of intelligence utilized.
With all these ideas, it’s potential to have a questionnaire outlined by 13 questions, with solutions weighted by a system of values for every one of many processes of the evaluated domains. This strategy permits Telefónica to find out the ultimate rating whereas offering traceability to delve into the processes of every area.
AN improvements and reference options
Vivo Config: Telefonica Brazil autonomous configuration system
In response to the challenges posed by the growth of its 5G community, Telefónica Brazil has carried out an automation answer that simplifies and streamlines the combination, configuration and provisioning of the community transport and cell entry layers. A key differentiator of this answer was the centralization of information from all areas concerned, enabling assertiveness within the configuration and customised entry for every space. This system has resulted in spectacular outcomes, together with:
- Financial savings of greater than 42,000 hours of labor (equal to five,900 workdays)
- An estimated 25% discount in community alarms and 30% discount in rework
Telefónica’s plan for vitality effectivity promotion and emissions discount
Telefónica has carried out two necessary comparative research of electrical energy consumption in its networks. The primary in contrast consumption per copper community buyer vs. the fiber community, displaying that fiber is 85% extra environment friendly by way of consumption per consumer. The second was carried out within the cell community, evaluating the consumption of the 4G community vs. the 5G community, which demonstrated that 5G expertise is as much as 90% extra environment friendly than 4G by way of energy consumption per unit of visitors (W/Mbps). Efforts to extend sustainability have resulted in vital financial savings:
- Telefónica has carried out 1,569 tasks which have generated financial savings of greater than €1.71 million ($1.87 million) and 10,428 GWh, avoiding the equal of three,352,312 tons of CO2.
- Power and electrical energy consumption have been decreased by 7.2% and 5.9%, respectively, regardless of a 7.4X enhance in community visitors.
