As network operators roll out FTTH, 5G and software-defined networking, they face important hurdles associated with data quality. Digital Twins can help in overcoming these hurdles.
Today Digital Twins are bringing a host of benefits to businesses in various sectors. The technology allows advanced modeling and prototyping, along with real-time site inventory control and predictive maintenance. The biggest advantage of using a Digital Twin is that it enables an organization to see what is happening at every stage of every process, thereby reducing the time and cost spent on a project, apart from minimizing errors and glitches. Especially for the telecommunications sector, Digital Twins are becoming more critical than ever, as the much talked about fiber to the home (FTTH) and 5G rollouts may put added strain on existing network equipment, and the opening of additional bandwidth on the spectrum may tax the existing infrastructure.
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Bouquet of benefits
Digital Twins offer multiple business benefits for telecommunications operators of all sizes. These include operational efficiencies in planning, design, deployment, along with network optimization and the entire operational life cycle. This saves time and resources for telcos, while simulated outcomes present insights into new and innovative business models. With the help of a Digital Twin, companies operating in the telecommunications space can enhance their understanding of network performance, business processes and customer behaviour, and know how these are interconnected and interdependent. It pushes telecom operators not to allow anymore sometimes several months between real changes in the field and the digital representation of that new reality.
With regard to network design, the use of this technology provides an operator the ability to keep an accurate inventory of deployed networking assets and change management. Further, Probe and Discovery enabled Digital Twins allow close tracking of existing infrastructure, which eases the process of rolling out expansions, upgrades and modifications. The Machine Learning aspect of a Digital Twin enables advanced what-if analysis of use patterns, network anomalies and fault predictions.
On the complex issue of dense fiber network deployment and management, Digital Twins allow easy maintenance of a large amount of passive infrastructure, active equipment, such as routers, bridges, multiplexers, antennas, battery backups, alarms, power generators, among many others.
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Data quality matters, now more than ever.
As the network operators roll out FTTH, 5G and software-defined networking, they face important hurdles associated with data quality. To throw light on how these hurdles can be overcome, Merkator, a Belgium-based company offering geospatial asset management software and services, will present how they combined real-time discovered equipment data with geospatial inventory to enable a true telecom network Digital Twin.
The company will exhibit Marlin Digital Twin, which enables multi-layered root cause analysis and planned work incident simulation by combining both discovered data with a geospatial infrastructure inventory. The impact of elevated data quality can impact all teams managing and operating a network.
Discover the potential of Marlin Digital Twin and unlock the value of your network by joining a webinar on “The Benefits of a Digital Twin for Telecom Networks” on 20 April 2021 at 2pm CEST. Register now!
