MYCOM OSI | MYCOM OSI secures future experience for Tour de France fans at TM Forum Catalyst Proof of Concept at Digital Transformation World 2018

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Closed-loop assurance technology secures and coordinates dynamic, on-demand 5G network slices for future Tour de France experience

London, UK – April 19, 2018MYCOM OSIa leading independent provider of assurance, automation and analytics solutions to the world’s largest Communications Service Providers (CSPs), today announced its participation in two TM Forum 5G Catalyst Proofs of Concept (PoCs), leveraging the world-renowned Tour de France to Demonstrate the power of 5G to deliver innovative immersive user experiences, fast and reliable connectivity for broadcasters, and efficient and automated operations driven by artificial intelligence (AI) for CSPs.

Munir Lackey

Munir Lackey

Providing connectivity for the Tour de France—6,300 hours of video broadcast to 190 countries on 100 channels—was a huge challenge. The span and scale of the event required the creation of a new network each day of the 21-day race, as the race was played along 3,535 kilometers of often hostile terrain, making traditional planning obsolete. In 2017, 4 motorcycles and 2 helicopters broadcast live video, which was transmitted to the hovering helicopter, then to the circling aircraft, and from there to a ground station in a temporary technical facility where daily Move with travel. The signal is then connected to 120 OB vans using 20 kilometers of fiber optic cables. 750 temporary mobile antennas, 26 relay vehicles, 8 Wi-Fi networks in each tourist village and 24-hour video surveillance complete the network infrastructure. With 5G technology, CSPs can deliver a new set of rich experiences and capabilities not possible with existing networks, while dramatically simplifying the complex task of connecting games to a global audience of 12 million live viewers and millions more broadcast viewers.

TM Forum 5G Catalyst Proof of Concept5G Smart Service Planning and Optimization‘ and ‘5G Smart Service Operation‘ will demonstrate new experiences and capabilities that have the potential to be applied to other major sporting events and future general networks, including:

  • Delivers an immersive fan experience like never before with on-demand 4K video streaming from multiple cameras, real-time 3600 VR/AR and real-time driver stats from Internet of Things (IoT) sensors

  • Dynamic network planning, optimization, and operations for mobile networks using drones, edge computing, network slicing, closed-loop automation, and artificial intelligence to predict rider, spectator, and network behavior

  • Dynamic network slice management and closed-loop assurance to guarantee slice-based quality of service, including on-demand 4K video to individual users, rider telemetry, IoT-powered statistics, drone-based cameras, and emergency services

In Catalyst, MYCOM OSI’s Experience Assurance and Analytics™ (EAA) The solution will provide closed-loop, automated, real-time assurance of Quality of Service (QoS) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) across multiple services 5G network slicing Have different quality of service requirements. They include enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) for broadcast video, subscriber video, and telemetry slices, and ultra-reliable low-latency communications (uRLLC) for passenger telemetry and emergency services slices. These 5G network slices will be created dynamically based on rider, spectator and network behavior, either passively or proactively by anticipating demand through AI/Machine Learning (ML) based predictions.

MYCOM OSI will also demonstrate how its closed-loop assurance uses policy-based and KPI-driven automation, integrating AI/ML-based predictive and prescriptive analytics to ensure continuous delivery of QoS and SLAs across dynamic 5G network slices. These capabilities include automated root cause analysis across all domains and from the network to services, customers and devices.

It integrates 5G RAN and core network, service orchestrator, domain orchestrator and service platform, using TOSCA and TM Forum Open APIincluding TMF 628 and TMF 642, to demonstrate the simplicity and speed of integration with any ecosystem.

Mounir Ladki, President and CTO, said: “Network slicing is a key 5G capability that presents a significant opportunity for CSPs to deliver new digital and IoT services in new business models, but it all depends on ensuring that every Quality of service for slices.” MYCOM OSI. “The challenge is how to ensure QoS and SLAs while managing the complexities of highly dynamic, real-time, on-demand network slicing. We are excited to demonstrate in these TM Forum 5G Catalysts how we address these challenges with our automated closed-loop assurance solution.”

TM Forum Catalyst is a PoC project developed collaboratively by TM Forum members to create innovative solutions to common challenges.

  • This ‘5G Smart Service Planning and OptimizationCatalyst, supported by AT&T, BT, NTT, Orange and Telecom Italia, demonstrates how to dynamically plan, optimize, integrate and secure a mobile 5G network that enables new immersive experiences during the Tour de France. It will showcase dynamic service creation and planning as well as reactive and proactive closed-loop automation combined with AI to deliver the best possible experience. Ecosystem players include Ericsson, MYCOM OSI and Wipro.

  • This ‘5G Smart Service OperationCatalyst, backed by AT&T, BT, KDDI Research, NTT, Orange, Telecom Italia and Telenor, demonstrates how CSPs can manage and roll out 5G slice-based services including 4K video streaming, drone-based broadcasting and IoT Enabling new revenue streams – provides statistics for events such as the Tour de France. The Catalyst demonstrates end-to-end slice management, dynamic service orchestration, reactive and active assurance, and policy management, using multi-level closed-loop automation to ensure SLAs and customer experience. Ecosystem players include Huawei, MYCOM OSI, Netcracker, Tech Mahindra, TEOCO, and ZTESoft.

The 5G Catalyst PoC will be held at TM Forum’s Digital Transformation World Conference and Exhibition (May 14-16, Nice, France), where MYCOM OSI will also present with Three UK “Securing the world’s first telecom cloud‘ and participate in group discussions around ‘Next Generation Service Assurance Support’, are all part of the zero-touch NFV/SDN track.

MYCOM OSI is the silver sponsor of the event and the exclusive sponsor of the concurrent CTIO Summit.At the event, it will showcase and launch new products and automation solutions in its cloud-native Experience Assurance and Analytics™ (EAA) application suite and showcase its latest research and developments in AI/ML.

To pre-schedule a meeting with MYCOM OSI, click here http://www.mycom-osi.com/dtw-2018-meeting-request Or contact the marketing team at info@mycom-osi.com. MYCOM OSI will be located on its own exclusive terrace on the top floor, adjacent to the Catalyst Pavilion.

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About MYCOM OSI
MYCOM OSI is a leading independent provider of assurance, automation and analytics solutions to Tier 1 CSPs such as AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, Globe, Reliance Jio, Safaricom, Sprint, STC, Telefonica, Telenor, T-Mobile, Verizon and Vodafone. Its telecom-centric solutions, including performance management, fault management, service management, automation/orchestration and network analytics: create intelligence from billions of disparate data across vendors, technologies and domains; align network, service and customer teams ; Empower users with flexibility and vendor independence; Increase efficiency through automation/orchestration capabilities. Headquartered in London, UK, with over 250 employees worldwide, MYCOM has been 100% focused on telecommunications networks for over 25 years.

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