Great Mobile Experiences Rely on RAN Performance
No matter how well the core network is performing, issues in the RAN often lead to significant quality of experience (QoE) or Quality of Service (QoS) problems. Empowered with a deep understanding of the RAN, Carrier Service Providers (CSPs) can build and tune better performing access networks, proactively resolve emerging problems, and reduce the risk of widespread subscriber churn, declining ARPU, and missed revenue targets.
Increasing quality expectations around existing 4G services (mobility, data, VoLTE, and video) magnify the problem. With the evolution to 5G and cloud architectures, there is a growing complexity around the RAN innerworkings that contribute to issues impacting latency, reliability, and signaling overhead.
To meet these new challenges, LTE and 5G RAN planning and operations teams rely on NETSCOUT solutions to protect and accelerate time to market, identify and resolve network degradation, and efficiently triage fault isolation between cross-functional teams.
Automatically Engineer the RAN Network for Growth and Performance
Globally, service providers continue to make significant capital investments in LTE-Advance and 5G networks to support growing subscriber demands, complex services, and revenue generation targets. To keep the momentum going and assure success, a comprehensive solution designed to address the complexities of the RAN and enable large scale automation initiatives is required.
Offering correlated, mediated, AI-digestible metadata, NETSCOUT’s Automated RAN Analytics and Automated RAN Optimization solutions empower service providers to resolve and fine-tune critical carrier capacity, coverage, and quality issues.
And, while evolving architectures paved the way for the introduction of new gNodeBs and 5G-enabled handsets, the initial NEM offerings remain limited with basic 5G functionality and growing operational gaps. To address the disconnect, service providers need automation tools that can help them deploy and cost-effectively tune complex, new RAN architectures, troubleshoot interoperability and improve the productivity of RAN engineers.
NETSCOUT Delivers Industry-Leading Value as Network Complexities Outpace Human Capabilities
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The Secret Is Out: 5G Success with Intelligent Automation
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An Automatic Neighbor Relations Reality Check
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Why You Should Care about Carrier Aggregation
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And, while CA can maximize data rates
Simplifying Carrier Aggregation Complexity
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Cashing in on RAN Data: A Guide for Monetization Success
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NETSCOUT is RAN Ready!
Are You RAN Ready?
Keep the momentum going and assure success with a comprehensive solution designed to address the complexities of the RAN and enable large scale automation initiatives.
Use Cases
Embrace the Open RAN Revolution
With 5G, vendor-agnostic RAN monitoring solutions are needed to manage the diverse landscape and emerging architectures in support of RAN service offerings such as Traffic Steering, QoE/QoS, Massive MIMO, RAN Sharing, and Network Slicing.
The prioritization of a scalable, cloud-based platform from NETSCOUT will cost-effectively address multifactorial issues associated with opening the RAN including IP transport assurance, cell performance, vendor interoperability, handover analysis, cell analysis at the edge, RAN Intelligence Controller (RIC) performance, automated policies, and data feeds.
Bridge the Gap for 5G RAN Planning and Optimization
With service providers looking to reduce OPEX with 5G, visibility into configuration management and automation frameworks can reduce operational risk and improve the end user experience.
NETSCOUT’s 4G/5G RAN solutions deliver this visibility and automation with deep insights from Smart Data into the performance for key RAN activities and business objectives.
Leveraging a cloud docker framework, the vendor-agnostic solution is 3GPP compliant and suitable for networks of any size and at any stage in the 5G Lifecycle.
Efficiently Design Your Network
Inaccuracies in Radio Frequency (RF) propagation models can put network planning and optimization activities at risk.
NETSCOUT enables network planners and RF network design engineers to base decisions on science fact, not fiction.
Drawing insights from continuous wave-based measurements and actual subscriber traffic, our RF Propagation Model Calibration programs utilize an ever-expanding library of tuned models for more efficient network design.
Maximize Mobile Revenue Streams
Counter declining ARPU and encourage subscriber loyalty with a GeoMarketing solution rooted in automated RAN analytics and machine learning.
Advanced NETSCOUT algorithms and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) enhance subscriber geolocation accuracy and provide opportunities to increase top-line revenue through subscriber location-based services without the need for GPS.