Nokia Siemens Networks Launches Self-Organizing Networks (SON) Technology

Automating core network operations, Nokia (News - Alert) Siemens Networks is launching a Self-Organizing Networks (SON) technology. SON for Core achieves a host of cost savings for operators apart from improving the customer experience. For Core’s process automation that transforms manual and slow network change management into fully automated real-time processes, up to 15 percent of operating costs can be saved by SON.

By identifying and selecting co-located network elements, the total cost of ownership of major network elements can be cut by up to 30 percent and transmission costs between radio access and core network elements can be more than halved.

“Today, core network management is largely manual and often reacts too slowly to maintain the best customer experience in the face of rapidly changing demands from smartphones. Manually configuring core network elements and their connectivity is a highly skilled task that can be prone to human error. SON for Core addresses these issues by helping to prevent harmful traffic congestion and other core network conditions,” said Thorsten Robrecht, head of Network Systems product management, Nokia Siemens Networks.

Operators can automatically detect, analyze and react to changing traffic and core network conditions with SON for Core. The core network adapts instantly to balance traffic loads and help prevent demand peaks from causing bottlenecks.

By automatically allocating unused capacity to overloaded connections, SON for Core also helps to optimize the use of transmission links between core network elements. Furthermore, to reduce operational expenditure and improve the customer experience, operators can route voice calls to a point of interconnection that is lowest cost and best quality.

Recently, the company announced that it will showcase its commercial Single RAN offering and Qualcomm’s prototype USB dongles at the Mobile World Congress (News - Alert) 2012 which will be held from February 27 to March 1 in Barcelona, Spain.

Instead of having just one data stream from one base station which is what HSPA+ today offers, users can now use HSPA+ Multiflow which assists in the continuous transmission of two data streams from base stations.