Nokia is launching Real-Time Mobile Network Analytics

NEW DELHI: Finland based telecom giant Nokia is launching Real-Time Mobile Network Analytics, the industry's first solution to give operators an end-to-end view of mobile networks from individual subscribers, applications, devices and operating systems, network elements, cells and calls. The analytics link the performance of applications and devices to network issues in real-time, effectively making every mobile device part of a network test bed.

This enables operators to pin point potential causes of service degradation much more rapidly than they can today since they no longer need to consult a myriad of tools and correlate the data from them manually. It also offers engineering teams a proactive way to understand Over The Top (OTT) application impacts on the network and optimize opportunities.

The combination of tools, sources data directly from radio access and core networks with fewer tapping points than standard solutions. This reduces the need to expand interfaces for legacy network probes. It also offers open Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that enable operators to use the collected data for their big data strategies.

Bhaskar Gorti, president of Nokia's Applications and Analytics business group: "Currently, operators are forced to take important operational and engineering decisions based on disconnected sets of data from separate tools for radio, core and transport networks. This makes it very hard to perform network-wide engineering and optimization or identify if a problem originates in the network, device, device OS, radio link, cell core network, transport network or at some other point. Today, we introduce a completely new approach that meets the needs of modern-day operators by providing on-the-fly correlation of network-wide data and its analysis per application, per cell, per subscriber, per device and even per call. In the future we will extend this capability to support fixed networks and Wi-Fi."

Shira Levine, research director, service enablement and subscriber intelligence, IHS Technology: "As the cost of storing and analyzing extremely large data sets comes down, and the processing-power of various analytics tools ramps up, operators are increasingly incorporating big data and analytics into their larger customer experience management strategies. Nokia's Real Time Analytics solution is positioned to capitalize on that trend by allowing operators to pull together data from multiple sources and thus gain a more holistic and comprehensive view of the subscriber; this enables them to do more proactive management of the experience and promptly address any problems that may arise."