An Automatic Neighbor Relations Reality Check

With service providers investing heavily in advanced LTE and 5G technologies, skyrocketing cell growth magnifies technical complexities and creates long-term productivity challenges for RAN teams responsible for assuring subscriber handover performance.

As neighboring cell relationships are at the center of call retainability and end-user service quality, service providers rely on Automatic Neighbor Relation (ANR) functionality to avoid time-consuming and manual configuration tasks.

Unfortunately, most traditional ANR solutions fall short when it comes to accurately reflecting and assuring the subscriber experience.

In this session NETSCOUT technology experts will:

• Examine the business and customer impacts of cell neighbor under- and over-provisioning.
• Identify the common pitfalls associated with conventional ANR methods.
• Explore the benefits of a vendor-agnostic solution with stateful analysis and advanced data sets for machine-learning objectives.
• Outline the importance of “re-farming” and reprovisioning to serve changing coverage and capacity goals.

Our Mission Possible RAN webinar series begins with a reality check on neighbor cell performance analysis.