1. Project Information
2. Project Overview / Executive Summary
Mission Statement | The scope and objectives of the AI closed loop automation workgroup are to define a reference architecture and related collateral to enable communication service providers (CSPs) to transform network operations by using AI driven closed-loop automation to detect anomalies, determine resolution and implement the required changes to the network within a continuous highly automated framework. The primary audience is CSP IT and network management who need to improve network operations to quickly resolve network issues and ensure the network operates efficiently. |
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Value (Benefit) | CSPs are overwhelmed with huge amounts of data, taking days or weeks to troubleshoot problems. Even though traditional expert systems have helped identify root causes and anomalies, they have significant operational expenses associated with them, not to mention being tedious and time-consuming to build. This is why we need AI/ML-based systems to help with proactive detection and automation to keep up with today’s data growth and complexity. We need to understand what is required to detect an anomaly that is a service impact and what is required to automate a remediation for such an anomaly. |
Strategy | TM Forum’s AI Closed Loop Automation project is helping the industry deploy and manage AI at scale by reducing risks within and between different organizations. It provides a blueprint on how to deploy AI operations by redesigning and reengineering operational processes to support AI, as well as a framework and toolset for governing AI operations at scale. It empowers service providers to get more intelligence from their data, allowing better decision making. |
3. Participants
This section identifies the project team members.
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Role | Name* | Company* | Confluence “@” mention | Comments |
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Project Team Chair* | Emmanuel A. Otchere Mathews Thomas Satish Sadagopan | Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd IBM Corporation IBM Corporation | ||
Collaboration Manager | Alan Pope | TM Forum | Alan Pope | |
Project Manager | Stuart Dunn | TM Forum | Stuart Dunn | |
Subject Matter Expert | Dave Milham | TM Forum | Dave Milham |
4. Project Workstreams and Deliverables
The project workstreams and deliverables for this project are introduced in the sections below.
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