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Intelligent RAN Automation

Our Intelligent RAN Automation is a series of technologies, solutions and services that use intelligent, machine learning to automate repetitive tasks and reduce complexity in the radio access network. Intelligent RAN Automation improves network performance, enhances customer experience and reduces operational costs and energy consumption.

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Accelerating the adoption of AI in programmable 5G networks

The introduction of programmable 5G networks in combination with AI will support Communications service providers (CSPs) in their strive for relentless efficiency, business agility to address new revenue opportunities, and to meet or exceed customer expectations through a superior experience.

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Service providers need to efficiently utilize limited resources in complex environments to deliver the superior network performance, customer experience, and operational excellence expected of them. Automation provides communication service providers the tools and applications they need to manage complexity profitably.

What is Intelligent RAN Automation?

Intelligent RAN automation replaces manual tasks with automated functionality driving down operational costs, using intelligent machine-learning-based functionality.

It is matching different automation levels – from simple scripts to advanced AI-driven – to a specific problem. Intelligent RAN Automation can successfully address ever-changing network demands and increasing complexity, through machine learning.

Intelligent RAN Automation employs a multi-solution approach to apply the most suitable form of automation to each use case as and when they are needed. This is carried out in the RAN nodes or management system.

Based on the different types of use cases, these are the main areas for Ericsson Intelligent RAN Automation solutions:

Network evolution - Enhances network planning with more efficient RF planning, site selection and capacity management. Improves network and service performance and enables new revenues by data driven and intent-based insights and recommendations
Network deployment - Handles provisioning and life cycle management of complex networks with optimal costs and speed to market
Network optimization - Offers intelligent autonomous functions to optimize customer experience and return on investments, e,g, RF shaping, traffic and mobility management, energy efficiency etc.
Network healing - Ensures service continuity and resolution of both basic and complex incidents, delivering high availability while keeping the operation costs at a minimum

For all these areas, AI and automation foundation enables faster TTM for – and trust in – high performance AI and automation use cases by means of openness and flexibility

The four main areas of Intelligent RAN automation

Intelligent RAN automation delivers four key business benefits:

Accelerated time to customer

Capture 5G revenue

Maximize return on network investment

CAPEX rationalization

Reduced complexity

OPEX reduction

Performance leadership

Superior experience

Our Intelligent RAN Automation solutions are designed to change network operations from being reactive to being predictive:

20 %

Lower CAPEX with AI planning

50 %

Less time from site survey to design complete

40 %

Reduction on bad quality cells

15 %

Increased spectral efficiency

15 min

Integration

17 %

Improved energy efficiency

60 %

Reduction in network performance issues

30 %

Improvement on service availability

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Why should communication service providers (CSP) care about rApps? Because rApps provide new technology for realizing CSPs' main ambitions. They help foster innovation with a short time to market, improve performance, and optimize CAPEX and OPEX investments. Read here what rApps are and what they can do to have the best 5G network.

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Current offerings hosting RAN automation solutions

Evolutionary, horizontal platform that can be integrated with existing platforms

Our current Intelligent RAN Automation solution offering is a full end-to-end solution, from RAN features to network management level, including both Ericsson and 3PP RAN network.

Ericsson Intelligent Automation Platform, Ericsson’s O-RAN Alliance Service Management and Orchestration (SMO) entity, embraces the introduction of an Open RAN ecosystem supporting a new era of collaborative innovation and improved customer experience building on new standardized interfaces to support interoperability between vendors.