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Today, network service providers (NSPs) are under pressure to better manage, justify, and reduce their network costs. Such elevated costs tend to result from:
- Over-engineered core network capacity (perhaps due to anticipated rapid network growth or as a result of mergers and acquisitions), typically operating at 50 to 85 percent of capacity on a "just-in-case" basis
- Inefficient network configuration and capacity utilization, with too many network locations, low traffic-routing efficiency, needless and expensive third-party leased capacity, and so on
- Poor visibility across multiple networks inventory systems, with no common or consistent view
In addition, network operations teams struggle to identify and minimize the risk of network outages, with little visibility of network "hot spot" congestion, which is particularly acute in high-growth or fragmented networks. In outage conditions it is often difficult to rapidly re-route traffic based on customers affected, service types, revenue profiles, and so on, to minimize revenue loss from both the outage and the potential customer churn.
Finally, network planning and operations teams often lack the sufficient factual data to justify network investment plans to meet sales forecasts or to provide fully costed and optimized network build and migration plans. In the wholesale business, these teams may not be able to rapidly and accurately price network bids to meet the business need, sometimes leading to incorrect pricing and inconsistent and costly routing of wholesale capacity.
Oracle Communications Network Intelligence enables NSPs to address these key problems in the most cost-efficient way.
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