OVERVIEW
The automated assurance of networks and services covers domain-level assurance and end-to-end assurance across hybrid, virtual, cloud-native and software-defined networks. This programme explains the market opportunities and challenges that vendors will encounter as telecoms operators and communications service providers (CSPs) prepare to launch new 5G services based on network slicing, low latency and IoT services. It also provides critical qualitative and quantitative analysis and advisory research that operational assurance decision makers can use to optimise the opportunities and minimise the threats posed by changes in the market.
KEY THEMES
- The emerging vendor landscape and the new demands on service and operational assurance as networks evolve to incorporate NFV, SDN and 5G technologies.
- The broader goals of achieving zero-touch operations and supporting SD-WAN and other uCPE-based enterprise services will place new demands on assurance solutions.
- Automated assurance as a key enabler for achieving end-to-end network and service lifecycle automation in hybrid multi-cloud environments.
RECENTLY PUBLISHED
Strategy reports: key issues
- Granular network analytics is critical for assuring dynamic 5G and SD-WAN services
- Cloud-native 5G calls for data sources with common standards for use in automated assurance
- Active testing techniques can help communications service providers to improve the customer experience
- Automated active testing supports CSPs' network automation strategies
Forecasts, datasets and primary research
- Automated assurance: worldwide forecast 2019-2023
- Automated assurance systems: worldwide market shares 2018
COMING IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS
Strategy reports: key issues
- The emergence of assurance platforms to enable automated operations
- The role of service assurance in enabling network slicing lifecycle automation
- New opportunities for active probes - test and validation of VNFs and CNFs, and lifecycle automation from laboratory to live
Forecasts, datasets and primary research
- Automated assurance: worldwide forecast 2020-2025
- Automated assurance systems: worldwide market shares 2019
- 5G market sizing and forecast