CASE STUDY: SON solutions at Verizon

Poorvi Verma

  • Introduction to Self-Organizing Networks: Intense focus on network reliability, the power of automation and getting the most from deployed RAN nodes
  • Responding to an emergency situation – Verizon and Ericsson collaborate to deploy and configure an automated SON solution
  • Lessons learned: the importance of collaboration, innovation, automation, the ability to act quickly: succeed/fail fast and the need for commercial and technical processes that support such an approach
  • Applying lessons learned: New processes and increased collaboration, success as the result of close collaboration and measuring success: time to respond, return on investment