MYCOM OSI’s Telco Transformation Solutions
assure Asian 5G Standalone Network and
5G Network Slices
Executive summary
An Asian communications service provider (CSP) required to consolidate its
About the
performance management systems and consolidate different technologies, Communications
including 3G, 4G and NFV, and assure its new 5G standalone network and Service Provider
5G slices. As the CSP rolled out 5G to offer new revenue generating services,
it wanted automated performance monitoring for different 5G slices (such
as eMBB, uRLLC, and mMTC) that would support consumer and corporate
services, with a need to assure multiple slices to meet the business intent. The service provider is
one of the largest service
MYCOM OSI offered its EAA-PM system for consolidation of existing providers in South Asia
Performance Management (PM) systems. 5G Assurance Solutions, part of
Telco Transformation Solutions operated on Amazon Web Services (AWS),
offering mobile, fixed
were offered to the CSP. The solutions included intelligent correlations to and broadband services.
address issues related to VoLTE, VoNR, NFVi and problems of the 5G
standalone network coverage, capacity and availability.
It provides ISP, IPTV and
In addition, MYCOM OSI offered automated 5G slice analysis and mobile phone networks
performance management for special events, which involved high traffic and and fixed line telephony
high mobility. Through this solution, live 5G network slices (eMBB) were services.
monitored in real time, and advanced root cause analyses was provided for
the consumer and corporate slices.
Its high-speed,
With this, the CSP could: low-latency 5G network
enables mission-critical
· Attain real-time visibility across the entire mobile (3G/4G/5G) enterprise applications.
network using a single pane of glass.
· Proactively identify network configuration recommendations and
trigger work orders, leading to redesign of services or updating of 5G
network slice QoS/5QI, based on business policy.
· Identify resource issues so that 5G network slice allocations could be
orchestrated to maintain QoS and SLA guarantees.
· Consolidate OSS with lower cost of ownership.
Implementing 5G Network and Slice Assurance
To enable assurance of 5G, 4G, 3G, PS/CS Core, PNFs and VNFs, all legacy PM
solutions/components were consolidated by MYCOM OSI into its single EAA
platform. Enhanced and automated PM reporting was enabled with intuitive
real-time and near-real-time dashboards to identify performance problems.
The EAA-PM system structured and consolidated the PM data before sending
it to northbound systems. Cross-domain KQIs were enabled for mobile (RAN,
core and transport) and NFVi for the 5G standalone network.
For consumer and corporate network slice assurance, accessibility of the
network slices was measured with PDU session dashboards providing the
details of the user data session establishment with the core network, for each
network slice. The solution also provided an indirect relationship between the
traffic and congestion metrics for a particular 5G slice. Applied policies (QoS or
charging policies) were used for inter-function transactions, indicating the QoS
offered to the users and proper charging of their usage for an allocated slice.
A set of intuitive dashboards provided KPIs covering transactions between
Session Management Function (SMF) and Policy Control Function (PCF), and
SMF and Charging Function (CHF). This included KPIs for transactions between
SMF and PCF to support 5G QoS policies and 5G control plane functions for
each slice, and KPIs for transactions between SMF and CHF to support
charging functions for each slice.
The consumer and corporate slices were monitored end-to-end, including 5G
Core and RAN slices (covering throughput, traffic and packet loss KPIs).
Benefits to the communications service provider
· MYCOM OSI’s Telco Transformation Solutions for NOC and SOC are
driving the CSP’s OSS transformation, consolidating 3G, 4G, 5G
non-standalone and 5G standalone assurance, critical for offering
advanced and differentiated 5G services.
· Consolidation of OSS supports lower cost of ownership. The NOC/
SOC solutions offer day-to-day monitoring across different domains,
reducing operational overload and increasing efficiency.
· Proactive advanced RCA identifies recommendations and triggers
work orders leading to redesign of services (e.g., updates 5G slice
QoS/5QI based on business policy).
· Identifies resource issues so that slice allocations can be
orchestrated by third party to maintain QoS and SLA guarantees.
· MYCOM OSI’s 5G slices assurance solution is industry-agnostic;
applicable to all industry verticals (Industry 4.0, remote healthcare,
connected automotive etc.)
About MYCOM OSI
MYCOM OSI provides Service Assurance to some of the world’s
largest Tier 1 telco operators. Its Service Assurance software
visualizes, automates and optimizes network and service
quality across hybrid telco and IT networks by integrating real
time assurance with closed loop automation and analytics
driven by AI/ML.
