Scorecard approved through TM Forum's official process

Framework to serve as benchmark for global carriers

LG Uplus employees present an autonomous network level scorecard for fixed-access networks. [LG Uplus]
LG Uplus employees present an autonomous network level scorecard for fixed-access networks. [LG Uplus]

LG Uplus has established a common global standard for evaluating autonomous operations in fixed-access subscriber networks among telecommunications carriers worldwide.

The company announced Wednesday that it had developed an autonomous network level scorecard covering the fixed-access network fault management domain through TM Forum, the global telecommunications industry consortium.

Fixed-access subscriber networks are the network layer connecting customers directly to services such as internet, IPTV and Wi-Fi.

Carriers have steadily raised the automation level of their subscriber networks to prevent faults and shorten recovery times, but no official framework existed to evaluate those efforts objectively. That gap made it difficult to compare operational levels across providers or verify them against a global benchmark.

To address this, LG Uplus proposed developing an autonomous network level scorecard for the fixed-access fault management domain within TM Forum and led the drafting process.

TM Forum is a global consortium of telecommunications carriers and equipment manufacturers that develops industry standards and evaluation frameworks. The scorecard was approved through TM Forum's official process and will serve as the certification benchmark for autonomous network levels in the fixed-access domain.

With the standard now in place, global carriers can assess and compare their fixed-access network autonomy levels using a single common framework and use the results to identify areas for improvement and shape their autonomous network strategies. Equipment manufacturers will also be able to align their solution development with the requirements carriers set out under the new standard.

The scorecard is expected to become the reference framework through which the global telecommunications industry systematically verifies and advances fixed-access network operational capabilities, giving the industry a shared basis for comparison and validation.

"This scorecard is meaningful because it allows the autonomous capabilities of fixed-access subscriber networks — an area that until now lacked any objective evaluation standard — to be verified against a global benchmark," said Park Sung-woo, executive vice president and head of the NW AX Group at LG Uplus. "We will continue to work with global carriers to expand autonomous network standardization efforts and drive network quality improvements that customers can feel."


woo@heraldcorp.com