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time to market and higher revenue. Get on board now and arrive at the land of automation benefits sooner or be forced to compete at a significant disadvantage with those who’ve already invested.
• Automating service virtualization reduced OPEX up to 81 percent by reducing the labor required to complete service order fulfilment and service assurance processes. • Automating network planning for both planned and deployed networks optimizes network resources and enables legacy network equipment to be retired, which contributes to CAPEX avoidance of up to 30%. • Operators expect automation to provide up to 10 percent uplift in revenue from improved win rates, faster time to market for services, the ability to offer differentiated services through optical network virtualization and the inclusion of network-as-a-service business models. The network operators interviewed also revealed secondary benefits of adopting network automation: • Consolidating IP and optical processes into a single integrated system helped reduce the costs associated with manual processing and software integration between different systems • Hardware cost can be reduced through more efficient network designs, helping reduce network CAPEX for some services by up to 30 percent. • Integrating new third-party applications into a single planning and optimization platform can reduce the number of applications required to run the network, along with associated costs. One operator achieved a 30 percent CAPEX savings by retiring the middleware software it used for integration and connecting WaveSuite to other operations support systems (OSSs). • Automation enabled one operator to offer more stringent network service- level agreements (SLAs) and use enhanced monitoring to reduce SLA violations, leading to fewer service outages and lower operational cost. • Automation improved average service order fulfillment time from ten days to 24 hours, contributing to 90 percent savings in operational costs. This enabled a Tier-1 North American operator to improve its win rates by a factor of five. If you’ve been sitting on the fence about starting your optical network automation journey, this report clearly shows the time for debate is over. The automation train is leaving the station for a destination that will bring lower CAPEX and OPEX, faster
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