Saudi stc and Huawei successfully commercial core network automation solution, won the GTA2023 Best Automation Project of the Year Award

The Global Telecom Awards (GTA) ceremony was recently held in London, UK. Saudi stc and Huawei won the "Automation Initiative of the Year" award for their innovative practices in core network automation, representing the industry's high recognition of their innovative practices in core network automation based on autonomous driving network solutions. It is also the first project in the Middle East to win the award.

2G/3G/4G/5G multi-network coexist, cloud native technology evolves from virtual machine to container, network becomes more complex, operation and maintenance difficulty increases exponentially, traditional manual operation and maintenance means can no longer meet the operation and maintenance requirements of the new era.

Under the guidance of the group strategy, Saudi stc, a global leading operator, based on Huawei's core network autonomous driving network solution, actively solves the problems of high operational risk and slow business launch through the introduction of technical means such as intention drive and automation, realizes zero contact and zero waiting, and accelerates the digital transformation of the core network.

In terms of moving network operation, CDCT is used to open up manual breakpoints in the process of moving network, realize automatic software loading, automatic risk investigation, automatic operation execution, automatic testing and intelligent machine duty, reduce the number of human-computer interaction, greatly reduce the risk caused by manual misoperation, ensure the safety of moving network, and achieve high stability of moving network.

In terms of service commissioning, model conversion minimizes configuration, reduces the number of manually configured parameters from hundreds to less than 20, and simulates automatically generated configuration commands through intention verification, ensuring accurate configuration, and shortens the duration of single-domain service online on the core network from two weeks to one day, achieving efficient operation.

The intent-based, efficient and highly stable core network automation innovation practice jointly created by Saudi stc and Huawei has become a benchmark for industrial co-creation, providing valuable practical experience and technical reserves for the industry, and will effectively promote the digital intelligent operation and maintenance operation transformation of the global telecom network. Facing the future, the two sides will carry out more in-depth and extensive strategic cooperation, continue to build a global benchmark for core network automation, and work with global operators and industry organizations all the way to jointly explore and promote the core network to a high-level self-intelligent network.

The GTA is a global award set up by internationally renowned telecom media outlet Telecoms.com to recognise outstanding transformation and excellent innovation in the telecommunications industry.