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It is true that many attempts have been made by service providers to improve the quality of their data. This is typically done via manual audits or by extracting network configuration data from network elements or EMSs, comparing this to the inventory data, and then manually resolving the discrepancies. While some service providers have been successful with this approach, it can be very labor intensive and, in many cases, hard to sustain or scale when costs need to be cut or new network elements are added due to business acquisition or changes to a provider’s target market.
A more effective, organic approach to this issue is to treat network discovery and reconciliation as the absolute foundation for service activation. This gives service providers a far better understanding of actual network capabilities and enables the realization of predictable provisioning with near zero fallout.
This approach assumes that the network itself provides the truth - rather than the documented views of the network. Therefore, creating a mirror image of the network and basing all planning, design, and subsequent implementation on that mirror image, can achieve true predictable provisioning.
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In this landscape, the successful provisioning and bandwidth management of last-gen, this-gen, and next-gen services becomes even more of a challenge. |
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automated provisioning. Information that is brought from the network itself must displace any inaccurate data and any impacts of these changes of data clearly identified for attention. As this approach is applied, the data used for provisioning becomes accurate, allowing new services to be efficiently provisioned while any service implementations that don’t match the actual network are investigated and corrected to align with the actual network implementation.
The approach eliminates the waste associated with the cumbersome manual activities required to determine the configuration of specific portions of the network to allow the implementation of a service, thereby reducing the overall cost of operating and maintaining the network.
If service providers are to overcome the tough demands that today’s telco environment is placing on their networks, they must rethink the way they manage and
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It can be quite challenging to discover and reconcile the network configuration, and the services that it carries, with the inventory system. However, a detailed and disciplined approach to managing the network information that is required for service provisioning can yield the true, up-to-date view of the network that is required for
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maintain network resources. Only by improving efficiency and eliminating wasteful processes will they be able to streamline their organization and meet the more demanding requirements of both services and customers.
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