After years of work on standards and process evolution, Communications Service Providers (CSPs) can now begin to leverage 5G management and orchestration to enable new services and assure their quality in minutes not weeks or months.

The insight outlines how 5G management and orchestration help service providers to activate, deploy and automate revenue generating services – especially for vertical market applications e.g. Network Slicing. 

This insight is an expanded version of the Viewpoint published by 5G Americas as a complement to their new White Paper on ‘Management Orchestration & Automation’  and the Blogpost ‘Before the Deluge: Organizing data with management, orchestration, and automation’ by Chris Pearson, President, 5G Americas.

Highlights include:

• OSS no longer Showstopper
• Focus now on Service Orchestration and Management for Revenues
• 5G SA Management and Orchestration will bring early Network Slicing revenues in 2020
• Aggregating and Managing Dynamic Slice Assignment
• Rewarding Operations as Management and Orchestration anchor revenue generation
• 5G Complexity demands large scale Automation from RAN to Core
• SON and AI for 5G Management
• Zero Touch is coming,- Time to get started