GTI自治网络V3.0

In 2020, GTI has established the intelligent network program (renamed in 2020, as “autonomous network”), to provide a reference approach for operators’ digital transformation through injecting intelligence deeply into their networks. With large-scale practices in the past 3 years and joint efforts and contributions from service providers, vendors and standard organizations, common census has been widely reached on its vision, target architecture and evaluation system. And more and more CSPs have released their own AN realization approach and strategic goal of reaching L4 autonomy by 2025, including China Mobile1, China Unicom2, China telecom3, AIS4, Telecom Argentina4 and MTN5. “Enabling self-X capabilities, delivering zero-X experiences.” Autonomous networks have not only been an option for operators to realize operation efficiency increase and cost reduction, but a critical pass into committing users with new promises, exploring emerging business opportunities and unleashing potential growth in a broader market.

The 1st 6release of this whitepaper has drawn a vision for autonomous network, answering the question “what autonomous network should be” and “what problems do we expect it to solve”. The use cases shed light on the points where the intelligent transformation of network might begin with. It defines the general evaluation methodology of network autonomous level, reference autonomous network architecture and corresponding requirements on network elements and network management system. The 2nd 7release went deeper and more concrete with the evaluation method, and further focuses on the 4 major autonomous capabilities, which are autonomous perception, autonomous diagnosis, autonomous prediction and autonomous control. It also highlights some early studies of trust in AN and AN life cycle management. The use cases addressed in these 2 releases are mostly L2/L3 autonomous network solution. This whitepaper will focus on the key technologies and high value use cases enabling the L4 autonomy, with expectations to pool strengths from all parties to solve the challenges and fully unleash the potential of those new trending and solutions to help the industry moving its way forward.