Now, integrating analytics and AI is a logical step forward, delivering measurable improvements in throughput, together with downtime reduction.

Yet, limiting their use to the network domain restricts their full potential.

Highlights from the survey conducted by Omdia:

• Although improving network performance benefits the most from analytics & AI applications, non-network-related items are most critical in achieving a company’s strategic goals.
• According to 37% of respondents, easier access to external data sources would have the greatest impact on making AI and ML tools more meaningful and effective for their most pressing use cases.
• The most strategic CSPs use various types of data in their analysis to get impactful insights.
• When looking for solutions, 45% of the respondents stated that telecom domain expertise was critical for data modernization.