Operations automation initiative to automate and streamline OSS/BSS stacks, developed automation ecosystem to enrich 5G supply chain. They leveraged TM Forum’s ODA to transform 26 in-house OSS/BSS stacks to 11 ODA-based plug-and-play building blocks; implemented six sets of TM Forum Open APIs.

Outcomes

7.5-fold reduction in digital service launch time from four months to

9 days

Autonomous transport network operations optimized to be five times faster, with CapEx reduced

16%

per year

Net Promotor Score improved by

1.3

times

The Jio NMS is fault tolerant by design, so stays operational

99.999%

of the time.

Dr. Rong-Shy Lin, CHT

SEVP and CTO

“Transforming into an agile, omnichannel digital business with automated, intelligent operations, DevSecOps and an established ecosystem is a tall order for any large and settled organization. As an enabling key technology for any CSP aiming at digital transformation and ecosystem development, the ODA and its associated design principles have served as some tangible references to uplift CHT’s BSS/OSS assets with a more secure, cloud-native, and componentized architecture. At present, CHT’s OSS manages over 6 million heterogeneous network resources, and automatically performs service provisioning and network diagnosis up to 1.2 billion times per year. This has resulted in OpEx savings of up to 9.9%. For instance, now 100% of 107 R&D projects with over 1,300 participating employees have fully embraced Agile in their way of working vs only 25% in 2018. Consequently, this shortens our system build cycles from weekly to daily and speeds up system deployment from 90 minutes to five minutes.”

Like many CSPs, Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) has embarked on a digital transformation journey to not only adapt to new market realities that call for maximum flexibility and agility but also to become even more relevant and valuable from the customer’s perspective. Working together with Ericsson, CHT leveraged TM Forum’s Open Digital Framework to transform its OSS/BSS stacks and develop an automation ecosystem to enrich its 5G supply chain. This has borne fruit, particularly in the healthcare sector, with 5G remote medical and healthcare services helping Taiwan cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. As long-term members of TM Forum, CHT and Ericsson tapped the TM Forum Open Digital Architecture (ODA) as its overarching automation design guide for operations automation, as well as inspiration to become a digital ecosystem enabler. The integration was also strengthened by leveraging the Ericsson portfolio in facilitating autonomous operation. The building blocks collaborated between CHT and Ericsson constitute an adaptable and intelligible framework - spanning from the capabilities of service creation, service ordering, service orchestration to service assurance with a complete end-to-end perspective. CHT’s digital transformation hasn't been limited to network operations. The telco has also boosted its execution capability not only by cultivating IT, CT, and OT talents to enrich its OSS/BSS, network, and operations but also by incentivizing a collaborative culture with Agile DevSecOps methodologies and processes to deliver faster, high-quality services. All of this provides the foundation for CHT’s strategy to create customer-centric value by becoming the leader of “Smart Life” and positioning itself as the enabler of the digital economy across Taiwan.

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