This digital twin instrument, which was developed by O2 Telefónica, permits community technicians to make use of it to optimize their community planning
German operator O2 Telefónica is utilizing a digital twin instrument that maps the standing of its 28,000 cellular community websites and over 50,000 transport routes in actual time, the telco mentioned in a launch.
This digital twin instrument, which was developed independently by O2 Telefónica, permits community technicians to make use of it to optimize their community planning and resolve native restrictions extra shortly, the telco mentioned.
Mallik Rao, chief know-how and knowledge officer at O2 Telefónica, mentioned: “The digital community twin supplies us with complete real-time info and routes – like a map app for the community. We visualize the dwell standing of the O2 Telefónica community and may reply even higher to the present wants of our clients. With the self-developed software, we work ten instances quicker than with earlier instruments. We will optimize our community in a extra focused method, higher establish efficiency restrictions and establish different transport routes extra shortly.”
An interactive map exhibits all cellular community places, IP routers, radio relay and fiber optic routes within the cellular community, exhibiting the perfect route for the cell phone sign by means of the community. This instrument permits O2 Telefónica’s technicians to grasp how environment friendly particular person community elements are and what their present dwell utilization appears to be like like, the provider mentioned.
Within the occasion of a disruption, the digital twin suggests a brand new routing for the cellular indicators, the telco mentioned, including that the technicians may simulate how transport routes and routers will behave within the occasion of a potential failure. This contains how the elements will deal with the anticipated further load. The community consultants can acknowledge potential bottlenecks and lacking different routes at an early stage and take measures upfront to make sure a clean community provide for cell phone customers, it added.
O2 Telefonica just lately mentioned it has already deployed almost 10,000 5G base stations because it initially launched 5G companies in October 2020.
The German operator mentioned it has deployed a mean of greater than 50 new 5G transmitters each week because the launch of the community. Final yr alone, the provider put in 3,000 5G base stations throughout the nation. The telco mentioned its 5G community presently reaches 95% of Germany’s inhabitants.
In October 2023, O2 Telefonica introduced the launch of its 5G Standalone (SA) community within the nation underneath the 5G Plus model. Till this launch, the German telco had been providing 5G companies by means of the NonStandalone (NSA) 5G structure partly by way of its LTE/4G core community.
Final month, the telco mentioned it’s presently trialing 5G Diminished Functionality (RedCap) know-how in its business 5G community in Munich.
RedCap, generally known as NR Gentle, is a decreased set of 5G capabilities meant for units like wearables and low-cost hotspots which have low battery consumption, decrease prices and decrease bandwidth necessities. Launched with 3GPP Launch 17, 5G RedCap is designed for units presently served by LTE CAT-4 however supplies equal or higher in efficiency with as much as 150 Mbps theoretical most downlink throughput.