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Nokia has unveiled new software tools and AI models integrated into its Altiplano platform to enhance operational efficiencies and network reliability in FTTH deployments. These innovations enable operators to build a comprehensive digital twin of their FTTH infrastructure, providing a unified view of both active and passive components. This approach addresses visibility challenges in the passive outside plant, reducing costs from inventory errors and service delays while accelerating issue detection and resolution.
Nokia's Altiplano platform now facilitates the creation of a full digital twin for FTTH networks, offering real-time visibility and automation to validate inventory, topology, and resources continuously. This unified perspective eliminates the silos between active and passive elements, enabling operators to streamline processes and expand networks more efficiently. By providing better insights into the outside plant, the digital twin helps prevent costly repeat visits and ensures accurate network representations, ultimately delivering more reliable broadband services to end-users.
The enhancements include advanced data analytics and AI models tailored for both greenfield and brownfield environments. Operators can leverage the new Fiber Health Analyzer from the Altiplano Marketplace to monitor fiber link health, audit topologies, isolate faults, and conduct root cause analysis. Complementing this, the Subscriber Line Identifier application allows for minimal-disruption verification of splitter connectivity and real-time inventory updates. These tools empower proactive issue prediction and swift resolutions, transforming reactive maintenance into preventive strategies that boost overall service quality.
Full digitalization across the FTTH lifecycle ensures precise inventory management and operational agility. Integrated with Nokia's Broadband Easy platform, these capabilities automate fiber rollout and operations, reducing friction in deployments. As Geert Heyninck, General Manager, Broadband Networks at Nokia, stated: "We can help operators eliminate the blind spots associated with FTTH deployments by removing the need to look at the active and passive network independently. Our software tools and digital platforms provide a unified view of the network, allowing operators to detect issues faster and resolve them before they escalate. This results in significant operational advantages, cutting costs and improving both the reliability and accuracy of network builds."
Danvig De Bruyn, CEO, fibertime, added: "Nokia’s automation and AI-powered tools not only help us to improve operational efficiencies but also enhance the reliability of our FTTH network. We can now detect disruptions earlier and resolve incidents more quickly to ultimately improve the subscriber experience."
Jaimie Lenderman, Principal Analyst, Omdia, commented: "Digital twins and AI tools will play an important role in autonomous networks. By unifying active and passive components in a single view, operators can minimize disruptions, resolve issues swiftly, and deliver reliable, cost-effective broadband that sets a new connectivity standard."
Nokia's latest advancements in Altiplano position FTTH operators to achieve unprecedented levels of efficiency and reliability. By harnessing digital twins and AI for predictive maintenance and unified oversight, these tools not only mitigate operational risks but also pave the way for scalable, sustainable broadband expansion, benefiting communities with faster, more dependable connectivity.
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