Service requirements for the telecoms industry require many tools to manage the network infrastructure efficiently. Today’s networks are becoming increasingly complex and as support for critical enterprise applications and communication systems create unmatched expectations for network availability and performance. Telecom service providers moving to the cloud will look at partners who are able to fill this gap and provide highly elastic and scalable services, which match the needs of a cloud based provider.
The key challenge for telecom providers is to develop robust applications that can perform varied network management operations in a changing, multi-vendor, multi-platform network.
It is expected that between now and 2020 telecom providers will go from managing 1.2ZB to 35ZB of data. It is because of this that over 90% of information created will be unstructured, making it all the more important that solutions are in place to manage the monumental network issues that will arise as a result. Self-learning automation technologies can be implemented to manage a high proportion of the management tasks, freeing up engineers’ time to focus on other network issues such as uptime and data allowances.
By subcontracting to external management software, telcos can benefit from the cost savings and therefore put themselves in a stronger position in a competitive marketplace. By employing data management solutions, operators are safe in the knowledge that their network is being managed automatically and can then focus on innovation. In that respect, it is as much an advantage to the end-user as it is for the customer, since they are the ones who manage to reap the benefits in gained from increased support and pioneering technologies.
The next big thing in the telecommunications space, whether it will be 4G, near-field communications, VOIP or a host of other well publicised technologies, will not arrive unless current technologies are kept in check. It falls to outsourced providers to supply the management software and solutions that support the innovation which drives our future communication needs.
