Streamline Ultra-Broadband Network Enhancements
The Nokia Gigabit Smart Build simplifies and streamlines the transformation of ultra-broadband networks, making the process more manageable and predictable. It facilitates a seamless transition to higher-bit rate access technology while ensuring quality at each stage. This approach enables operators to achieve the fastest time to market (TTM) and optimize their return on investment (ROI).
With Gigabit Smart Build, operators benefit from proven expertise, methodologies, and innovations that support various critical tasks:
- Defining the appropriate network evolution strategy
- Preparing for the launch of ultra-broadband services
- Deploying ultra-broadband access technology effectively
- Migrating legacy broadband services smoothly
- Managing and optimizing ultra-broadband networks for ongoing efficiency and performance.
The evolution of broadband is being propelled by various factors:
User Demand: Consumers and businesses increasingly seek richer online experiences that demand higher bandwidth and instant responsiveness.
Competition: Service providers aim to expand their market share and revenue streams by offering high-bandwidth services that attract and retain customers.
Disruptive Forces: Emerging gigabit players are introducing new options to the market, forcing traditional service providers to enhance their offerings and provide greater bandwidth to remain competitive.
Government Initiatives: Governments worldwide are setting broadband targets to ensure universal access to high-speed internet, recognizing its positive economic impact and importance for societal development.
Mobile to Fixed Transition: Service providers are leveraging small cells to extend the capabilities of their fixed networks, catering to the increasing demand for seamless and high-speed connectivity among mobile users.
Operators Face Challenges When Enhancing Broadband Networks
In the highly competitive broadband market, meeting customer expectations and gaining market share requires continuous network evolution to increase bandwidth accessibility across a wider geographic reach.
However, broadband evolution initiatives carry inherent risks. Inefficiencies or challenges in planning and execution can derail progress. These programs often entail extensive civil works, including road excavation and infrastructure installation within buildings which can be costly and impact the bottom line, affecting the communities where business operations occur.
Some of the most significant broadband enhancement challenges include:
Committing to Evolution: Implementing higher-bit rate technology entails embracing new complexities, undergoing substantial business-wide changes, and making significant capital expenditure (CAPEX) investments. Strong governance that extends beyond day-to-day operations is essential to realize the benefits of ultra-broadband services fully.
Choosing the Right Technology: The journey toward broadband evolution involves selecting a range of next-generation copper, fiber, cable, and wireless access technologies. Customer-specific needs, financial considerations, market dynamics, and planned evolution trajectory can influence this decision. Making the right choice enhances your business case and expedites your time to market.
Defining the Right Strategy: Develop a strategy that maximizes the efficiency of introducing new technology and enables the creation of successful services in both the short and long term. This strategy should align with your business objectives and customer needs.
Making Rollouts Predictable: Maintain control over rollouts, especially for fiber or higher-bit rate services, to ensure quality and minimize errors that can lead to user frustration and increased costs. Implement repeatable processes that facilitate reliable end-to-end network connections.
Managing the Network Lifecycle: Keep your network up-to-date and consistently deliver an excellent user experience. This becomes particularly challenging during large-scale network upgrades and subscriber migrations. Utilize tools and processes that enable fast, error-free upgrades, migrations, and technologies for detailed network element performance inspection.
Moving forward with your broadband transformation plan requires solutions that enable quick and cost-effective network evolution, the timely rollout of new services, and the provision of gigabit speeds users desire. By leveraging these solutions, you can effectively navigate the complexities of broadband evolution and meet the evolving needs of your customers and business objectives.
Three Steps to Efficient Ultra-Broadband Rollouts with Nokia Gigabit Smart Build
The Nokia Gigabit Smart Build offers a pathway to feasible gigabit evolution by ensuring predictable outcomes in terms of quality, cost, and time to market. Gigabit Smart Build facilitates ultra-broadband access technology’s efficient and cost-effective rollout by leveraging established networking expertise, a straightforward evolution methodology, and innovative tools.
Gigabit Smart Build introduces a structured framework and methodology that divides broadband evolution into three phases: prepare, deploy, and operationalize. This systematic approach ensures clarity and efficiency throughout the evolution process, enabling you to effectively manage the transition and maximize the benefits of ultra-broadband technology.
Prepare
In the “Prepare” phase of Gigabit Smart Build, operators receive the necessary support to prepare for the effective implementation of Gigabit technology. This support aims to help operators optimize their return on investment (ROI) by strategically deploying ultra-broadband technologies in terms of timing and location. Through targeted guidance and assistance, operators can streamline their preparation process and ensure a successful transition to gigabit technology.
Deploy
In the “Deploy” phase, Gigabit Smart Build facilitates operators in achieving fast and accurate evolution to market. Equipping operators with the appropriate skills, tools, and methodologies reduces the time required for deployment. Gigabit Smart Build extends deployment support across critical areas, encompassing customer self-installation technologies and network build control management. This comprehensive assistance enables operators to introduce gigabit technology swiftly while minimizing errors and delays.
Operationalize
In the “Operationalize” phase, Gigabit Smart Build enables operators to control and optimize ultra-broadband deployment upgrades and migration processes effectively, transforming them into revenue-generating services. This support emphasizes seamless service migration, smooth execution of upgrades, and leveraging analysis to maintain network integrity. Operators benefit from a range of optimization options Gigabit Smart Build offers, including legacy broadband migration, network software upgrades, and comprehensive network assessments and health checks.
Nokia Gigabit Smart Build Benefits and Features
Nokia Gigabit Smart Build offers comprehensive benefits and features to enhance your network transformation project. By leveraging Nokia Gigabit Smart Build’s advanced features and benefits, you can efficiently transform your network while maximizing performance, minimizing costs, and accelerating time-to-market.
Predictable Costs and Quality: Achieve cost predictability and consistent quality standards throughout your project, ensuring financial stability and service excellence.
Fastest Time-to-Market: Accelerate your time-to-market with over 95% technology and strategy selection accuracy through Nokia Bell Labs patented framework.
Efficient Fiber Service Activation: Activate fiber services faster and at a 50% lower cost through ONT customer self-activation, streamlining the deployment process.
Streamlined Legacy Broadband Migration: Migrate legacy broadband networks faster and with 99% first-time-right accuracy using patented methodologies and tools, simplifying the migration process.
Expert Network Performance Insight: Gain expert insight into network performance and capacity management through automation and patented tools for big data analytics, ensuring optimized network operation.
Cost-Effective Rollout: Reduce rollout costs by up to 30% and minimize errors by a factor of 3 with a field-proven end-to-end delivery model, blueprinted tasks, and streamlined processes.
Quality Broadband Network Upgrades: Upgrade broadband networks more quickly and with higher quality using a systematic upgrade methodology and patented toolset, ensuring seamless transitions and improved service offerings.
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