2024 Catalyst Projects

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At the heart of innovation at Innovate Asia, 10+ Catalyst projects will debut their groundbreaking innovations live in the expo hall and on the Innovate stage.

Harnessing the collaborative global force of the greatest industry minds from global organizations, our Catalyst project teams are pioneering solutions to propel industry innovation and growth through Open APIs, ODA, AI, and automation.

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GenAI powered cognitive toolkit for network and service management - Phase III

This Catalyst examines Autonomous Networks and Gen AI in the context of addressing the complex challenge CSPs face in delivering high-quality 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) services, which require sophisticated AI-driven models for network planning, provisioning, customer engagement, service assurance, and monetization. Traditionally, CSPs require extensive infrastructure and isolated AI models for each function, making scaling costly and limiting flexibility. Additionally, managing diverse AI models in silos reduces cross-functional insights, impacting service quality, customer experience, and operational efficiency. Our solution—a Generative AI Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) toolkit—creates business value by offering CSPs a unified, intent-driven platform that centralizes multiple task-specific AI models along with Gen AI LLMs on shared infrastructure.

URN: C25.0.790

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Broadband as a Service: The future of wholesale broadband ordering – Phase II

Currently, the lack of a standard implementation of the TM Forum APIs in the access market mean service provider may require multiple and different implementations for the same products, even where the access provider is using TM Forum components and APIs. The project will mean an access provider or software vendor can implement that will help reduce the cost and time service providers need to get their products to market. It gives a standard product model, lifecycle and supporting services such as addressing and appointments. The future will extend the project to service providers offering products to end users, helping build an eco-system based on common definitions that further simplify and reduce IT costs.

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URN: C25.0.811

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SATCOM with an Edge - Phase III

Societies and businesses that live and operate in remote locations not only need basic connectivity services but also superior experiences that are on-par with services delivered in mainstream locations. While SATCOM + 5G provides the much needed basic connectivity services for the poorly connected and unconnected societies, SATCOM providers and CSPs can go a step further to empower the first responders and businesses with rich applications and low latency services, offering new pathways to generate new revenue. In this catalyst, we propose to develop following key capabilities to enable Telcos and SATCOM providers to deliver mission critical services to first responders and business customers. Phase 3 proposes to extend the Phase 2 solution (ie: SATCOM + 5G Anywhere) with new capabilities to further empower the first responders and businesses in remote locations with mission critical low latency applications at the edge, thus providing new revenue streams for SATCOMs and CSPs 1- Provision mission critical Edge applications on-demand to an edge computing device. 2- Monitor and assure end to end network, service and application performance. 3- Charge and Bill for the network services and applications

URN: C25.0.766

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Beyond chatbots: Revolutionizing telecom with advanced generative AI - Phase II

In the first phase of the Catalyst project, “Beyond Chatbots,” we tackled the issue of fragmented customer service in telecom by leveraging Generative AI and machine learning. We improved customer interactions with personalized, real-time responses, achieving over 70% accuracy in predicting customer intent and ensuring faster resolution. Additionally, we reduced operational costs by 50% through more efficient handling of interactions. Our solution also focuses on creating an industry blueprint for the effective use of GenAI, promoting best practices and widespread adoption With this progress, we are ready to take the next step—proactively addressing customer needs before they even contact customer service. In the second phase, we aim to solve this by enhancing our predictive capabilities, allowing us to engage high-risk customers before they need to reach out. This approach will help mitigate churn risks and improve customer satisfaction by offering proactive, personalized solutions. By refining our model and advancing the industry blueprint we will drive further innovation in customer engagement and operational efficiency, ensuring long-term value for telecom providers and their customers.

URN: C25.0.767

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AI-driven network automation for traffic and service resilience - Phase II

Undersea cable incidents frequently disrupt global telecommunications, with a recent major cut between Asia and Europe significantly impacting network quality and customer experience. Network engineers often navigate diverse routing paths, including IX, Peering, and Transit services, but improper handling can exacerbate issues. Even after optimal rerouting, persistent service degradation, particularly at the application layer makes problem identification challenging. Manual performance analysis across platforms is labor-intensive and inefficient. AI in the network operations space offers a transformative solution. The AI continuously learns traffic behaviors, optimizes resource allocation, and prioritizes traffic based on Quality of Service (QoS) metrics to achieve better performance & resilience. GenAI is also introduced in the grand design, enabling intent-based interactions with the network. AI-driven innovations ensure consistent service quality, optimised operational costs, stronger customer trust, and more advanced automated network management. This approach addresses evolving telecommunications challenges, ensuring robust and reliable service delivery. Our catalyst explores AI-driven solutions to advance towards higher level of autonomous networks (AN Level-4/5). In the previous phase, it demonstrated three aspects: intent input via chatbot and interpreter, service decomposition and instantiation, service-to-resource management. The previous phase (Stage 1) focused on developing a reference architecture and realisation of intent-based Connectivity-as-a-Service (CaaS) orchestration. Stage 2, will focus on the full implementation of the design to achieve the endgame of AI-driven network operations for enhanced efficiency and automation.

URN: C25.0.821

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The Big Deal - Phase II

Enterprise telecommunications usually requires multi-part solutions. These solutions can be complicated, mixing geographic communication services, connectivity, security, voice, video, data & many IT application and infrastructure services that depend on each other in different ways. The cost to deliver CSP services can be variable depending on the availability of the services at the location or specific configuration requirements. It becomes necessary to qualify locations as well as validate dependencies, configurations, a robust solution is required for this solution complexity and for the the management of contractual terms, pricing, deal profitability and then the fulfilment of the configurations.

URN: C25.0.788

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UNITe: Unified Network Integration for Terrestrial and Non-terrestrial Communications - Phase II

In Phase-2 of our 'Cellular to Satellite Communication' project, we focus on validating the proposed solution through a proof of concept and quantifying its benefits for global supply chain management. By integrating cellular and satellite networks, we aim to provide seamless connectivity for real-time monitoring and control of high-value shipments, such as perishable food, pharmaceuticals, and defense supplies. This phase will also contribute to evolving industry standards and assess the commercial viability of our scalable communication framework, driving both operational efficiency and sustainability.

URN: C25.0.772

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Converged access - Phase IV

Business value focus on our past 3 years of work in the converged access space. This year we further explore additional connectivity options as well as leverage the increasing benefits of AI within our intent based framework. This will be further refined withing out upcoming team sessions. We already have a well formed team that is excited to contribute. It may include elements of the Broadband Forum's CloudCo and more elaboration on the valuable CAMARA apis that are being published.

URN: C25.0.807

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Quality of Trust - Addressing spam to unleash monetization

Globally, over 5.5 billion spam calls are made monthly, and associated scams from smishing and vishing result in more than $55 billion in annual losses. These spam and scams erode trust in digital communications and place significant burdens on organizations and CSPs for a solution. To achieve trust, a globally coordinated Tool is essential to combat spam and resulting scams. This will not only restore subscriber trust, but it will also incentivize CSPs to solve the Spam & Scam problem by unlocking new monetization opportunities from the Tool for CSPs. Such a Tool would leverage real-time intelligence sharing and advanced filtering or AI/ML models across CSP networks globally, helping telcos significantly reduce spam and associated Scams across SMS, voice, and other channels. This enhanced security would restore consumer confidence in the legitimacy of communications, enabling safer transactions in areas like payments, e-commerce, and even government services. As trust increases, telcos could leverage this tool to build new revenue models using secure communication platforms and APIs for other businesses while fostering a trusted digital ecosystem, vital for the future of digital communications commerce, payments and other digital use cases.

URN: C25.0.763

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