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Opportunities, competition, and change are driving huge investments in new capabilities to deliver new services in new ways. Capital efficiency, asset productivity, and strategic vision are required to make the right telecommunications investment choices – as the following Telcordia Consulting Services telecom case studies make clear.
European carrier: Stem declining revenues and line loss
Goals
- Manage risk of mass-market, fiber-based broadband while meeting new competition from cable and mobile operators.
- Gauge financial and operational impacts of network technology choices.
Solution
- Identified and assessed technological and operational alternatives, providing "best practice" approaches and helping determine the best approach for the environment.
- Identified the most cost-effective network and operations architectures for rollout in customer environment.
Results
- Eliminated previously considered two-step approach (FTTCab transitioning to FTTP), which would have stranded 25% of capital expended.
- Proved an over 50% savings in field operation expenses by utilizing FTTP architecture.
- Adopted VDSL evolution plan for superior frequency utilization.
- Enacted recommended transition plan to ensure compatibility of Service Layer architecture and platform requirements for new services.
- Approved recommended network architecture for trial.
Incumbent South American carrier: Make the case for NOC consolidation
Goals
- Consolidate international NOC to reduce operational and capital costs and leverage regional synergies.
- Ensure compliance with all regional regulatory bodies.
Solution
- Developed consolidated NOC design with business case considering processes, systems, data, and regulatory environment.
- Provided data migration and system consolidation guidelines.
- Developed cross-border business process design for regulatory adherence.
Results
- 25% reduction in operations costs including elimination of duplicative staffing.
- Net Present Value in the tens of millions of dollars, payback in less than two years.
- Significant reduction in the number of systems.
- Reduction in capital expenses and opportunity to better utilize networks across geography.
- Enhanced customer service with uniform NOC operations and alignment of services among countries.
- More effective support of vendor support contracts using uniform standards across technologies.
Latin American competitive access carrier: Establish strategic plan to expand business
Goals
- Combat stagnant growth, low network capacity utilization, and a saturated wholesale market through new offerings.
Solution
- Assessed current network, services, operations, and regulatory environment; defined opportunities in evolving market sectors; evaluated long-term options for monetizing network resources; and provided a tactical roadmap for leveraging existing network assets, skill sets, and technology.
Results
- Provided roadmap for expanding enterprise networking services portfolio.
- Established requirements for proactive positioning as a preferred provider of fiber-based wireless backhaul solutions.
- Established partnership requirements for delivery of cloud-based solutions.
- $30M USD long-term annual incremental revenue potential.
