Optimizing network rollout autonomously for radio access and fiber
How will the success of the solution be measured? The main benefits of our product are, firstly calculating accurate per-technology traffic forecasts (3, 6, 12, 18, 24,... months down the line) and secondly optimizing the network rollout plan to serve that future demand. To measure success of the traffic forecasts, we track deviations between our traffic forecasts and the actual traffic demanded per site and technology over a period of time. To measure the success of the rollout plan, a naive approach would focus on a comparison of the optimization algorithms, comparing the Smart CAPEX-optimized rollout plans versus rollout plans calculated by other approaches (more simplistics approaches such as Golden Sites or manual rollouts calculated by the CSP’s Network Planning teams). This has the advantage of being an objective, simple to calculate metric. This would be a typical lab measurement, and it would be a typical “engineering” approach. However, we strive to go beyond this and provide a holistic view of how successful our tool and our methodology are. We can not simply focus on the mathematical elements of the solution while ignoring the market environment, we are not operating in a vacuum: Calculating an optimized rollout for a traffic that is not there brings no benefits to the CSPs. We need, firstly, to build an accurate traffic projection, and only then we should focus on how good our optimization algorithms are. Looking at previous deployments in several countries, AI-ML Smart CAPEX unlocks CAPEX and OPEX efficiency gains of 15-20% on the new Network investments and a significant OPEX saving on the existing Network Infrastructure. Additional information https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NJD2iQu1PNpQ22aWdJfQiezC6YrWMvlGTxOTfuUC5X0/edit?usp=sharing What is AI-ML Smart CAPEX (Product, Team, Data, Methodology and Case Study)? (slides 1-29) AI-ML Smart CAPEX and ESG. Beyond power savings, how can SmartCAPEX help with ESG targets? (Slides 29-33) Benchmarking different generations of Smart CAPEX (Slides 38-42) Over the time, we have see three main generations of Smart CAPEX Solutions (1) 1st-gen, Network Traffic Analysis, (2) 2nd-gen, Golden Sites and (3) 3rd-gen, Locatium approach In this file we present a benchmark of the different benefits that each approach brings. About Cloud Deployment Smart CAPEX leverages ML and AI algorithms such as Probabilistic search and Monte Carlo simulations on huge datasets (in the range of hundreds of TB) This requires a lot of computation power, in the range of tens of thousands of CPU cores.This is why cloud deployments are ideal. But it pays off as the results are CAPEX savings in the range of 100s of millions of US$ a year for a medium-sized CSP. FBB Generations (slides 43-44) The tool UI (slides 45-46)
Locatium AI/ML Smart Network CapEx
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Introduction to the Global Telecoms Capex Tracker
ROIC and the Investment Process
ROIC and the Investment Process
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