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Nokia Launches AVA 5G Cognitive Operations to Help Telcos Enter the 5G Era

Nokia has announced the launch of a service have seen a 20 percent reduction driven operations to a more proactive
complete AI as a service offering: Nokia AVA in customer complaints and a 10 percent data-driven maintenance approach. The
5G Cognitive Operations. The framework reduction in costly site visits. The insights “AI-as-a-service” commercial model
and its underlying AI-based solutions provided will help support CSPs with means upfront costs are minimized,
enable CSPs to transform their network, their slice creation, with an intelligent linking payments to usage and outcomes.
service and business operations through provisioning system identifying network A large part of this solution is already
the application of AI, automation and cloud resources, what SLAs can be committed commercially available and expected to be
scalability. The solution will provide CSPs and where new revenue opportunities completely available in the second quarter
with insights to assist with slice creation can be found. Future capability will also of 2020. Don Alusha, Senior Analyst at
and assurance to meet committed SLAs. enable CSPs to customize slice creation, ABI Research, said: “AI and 5G network
With 5G and the explosion of IoT devices providing different SLA levels based on slicing will be fundamental for new value
unfolding, CSP operational teams are unique user requirements. Nokia AVA 5G creation in the industry, particularly for
challenged with having to manage an Cognitive Operations is underpinned by enterprise verticals that need reliable,
ever-growing complexity through new use Microsoft Azure cloud technology - with low-latency communication networks to
cases, service requirements, virtualization other public and private cloud options support their business operations. Nokia
and network slicing. Traditional network possible. In addition, Nokia’s Cognitive AVA and Microsoft Azure capabilities
and service management approaches Collaboration Hubs will help CSPs to present CSPs with an option to obtain the
are no longer sustainable, thus requiring operationalize AI solutions through the ‘intelligence’ they need to monitor and
AI and automation. Nokia AVA 5G work of cross-functional teams around maintain their networks in a bid to ensure
Cognitive Operations is a complete AI the world, while the Digital Network compliance with strict SLAs in an elegant
as a service offering, combining data Architecture provides common digital and consistent fashion.” Dennis Lorenzin,
science, machine learning as well as telco tools and proven landscape to ease data Head of Network Cognitive Service unit
and cloud expertise to bring AI to life. It collection and enable digitized methods of at Nokia, said: “Operators face a perfect
anticipates network and service failures procedures (DigiMoPs). This framework storm of rising traffic and consumer
with a high level of precision and accuracy provides an end-to-end service view with expectations, so it is crucial to be able to
up to seven days in advance. If failures near real-time impact correlation for better predict and prevent service degradations
arise, Nokia 5G Cognitive Operations visibility and control, supported by Nokia’s at an earlier stage, while solving issues
can solve them up to 50 percent faster extensive library of AI use cases that have that arise significantly faster. Nokia AVA
and accurately assess the impact on been proven to solve business challenges. 5G Cognitive Operations enables CSPs
customers and services. By taking pre- The solution delivers intelligent fault to operate and assure latency for 5G use
emptive, automated actions to resolve diagnosis, failure localization and dynamic cases through AI, ultimately delivering
issues before they affect subscribers and impact analysis. CSPs can leverage this an enhanced customer experience for
enterprise applications, CSPs trialing the functionality to shift away from incident- consumers and enterprises.”

Paltel Group Invests in Palestinian Startups

weDeliver and Receet

Palestine Telecommunication Company, major investment in audiobook platform resources needed to compete in regional
Paltel, is thrilled to announce its latest Kitab Sawti, as one of the contributors that and international markets. Established
investments in two of the country’s helped the startup raise an impressive USD in 2018, WeDeliver has since become the
premier early-stage startups, WeDeliver, 6 million in Series A funding. On behalf of region’s first and foremost crowd sourced
and Receet. The announcement was held Paltel Group, Al-Aker expressed his support on the way delivery service for businesses
at Paltel Group’s Innovation Hub, Fikra, for Palestine’s emerging startup scene, in emerging markets. The relatively new
in the presence of CEO of Paltel Group especially those innovating within the field startup was the first to be hosted by Fikra
Ammar Aker, Managing Director Laith of information technologies. Further, Al- and has garnered considerable attention
Kassis, Founder and CEO of weDeliver Aker was pleased that Paltel Group has with the entrepreneurial scene across
Ahmad Ramahi, and Founder and CEO taken a leading stance on supporting the the region and has won the first place in
of Receet Omar Barkawi along with country’s entrepreneurs, and providing the startup category at Startup Istanbul
other executives from Paltel Group. This them with a platform to incubate and 2019. As one of Palestine’s fastest-
announcement follows Paltel Group’s first accelerate their ideas and access the growing startups of all time, WeDeliver

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