Exploring Telecommunications Network Inventory
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Summary of Exploring Telecommunications Network Inventory
The Telecommunications Network Inventory application allows organizations to create a digital representation of their physical and logical networks within the ServiceNow AI Platform. This application helps redefine the telecommunications service experience by providing a consolidated and accurate network inventory that automates the resource and service lifecycle.
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Key Features
- Network Asset Life-Cycle Management: Enables service providers to monitor spare equipment, deployed assets, and available capacity, serving as a single source of truth for resource lifecycle data.
- Telecommunications Circuit Design: Automates network service creation by establishing design criteria that trigger change workflows for equipment assignment.
- Service Assurance: Maps services to physical network resources, enhancing visibility of resource utilization through configurable dashboards.
- Integration with CMDB: Utilizes CMDB classes aligned with telecommunications industry standards for data modeling.
- Visualization Tools: Provides visual representations of circuits, network topology, and rack management to streamline operations.
Key Outcomes
By implementing the Telecommunications Network Inventory application, customers can expect improved management of network resources, enhanced visibility into inventory operations, and streamlined service delivery. The application facilitates better planning and optimization of resources while ensuring continuous service operation and integrity of the telecommunications network.
Learn how the Telecommunications Network Inventory application can help your organization to create a digital representation of your physical and logical networks in the ServiceNow AI Platform.
Overview
With the Telecommunications Network Inventory application, you can redefine the telecommunications service experience with a consolidated, accurate network inventory to automate the resource and service life cycle in your organization. The Telecommunications Network Inventory application enables you to build a digital representation of your physical networks, logical networks, and the services that are provisioned to your customers. This network inventory contains the assets, services, and the relationships that define the infrastructure of your telecommunications networks.
The ServiceNow Configuration Management Database (CMDB) stores the network inventory details. With this information, you can monitor your network infrastructure so that you can help to ensure the integrity, stability, and continuous service operation of your network.
Key uses of the Telecommunications Network Inventory application include:
- Network asset life-cycle management
- Help the service providers to understand their spare inventory equipment, currently deployed assets in the network, and free capacity (for example, the available slots or ports) for the new network. Capture store, and maintain accurate resource life-cycle data as a single source of truth. Leverage your platform workflows to manage your resource and service life cycles across the organization.
- Telecommunications circuit design and resource assignment
- Automate how to create your network services. You can set the design criteria that initiate the change workflows to assign the necessary equipment.
- Telecommunications service assurance based on accurate network inventory
- Help service providers to understand which circuits, services, and customers are related to the physical equipment. Map your services to the physical network resources so that you can speed up the analysis of the service impacts. Get accurate visibility of your resource utilization through configurable dashboards.
The following example shows the common uses of the Telecommunications Network Inventory application.
Benefits
The Telecommunications Network Inventory provides the following benefits and features:
| Benefit | Feature |
|---|---|
| Leverage Configuration Management Database (CMDB) classes, which are telecommunication industry standards aligned to support the needs of telecommunication service providers | Data model for Telecommunications Network Inventory |
| Quickly model equipment and design complex templates | Modeling your Telecommunications Network Inventory workflow |
Automate network service creation by setting complex design criteria that initiate change workflows to assign the necessary equipment |
Telecommunications design and assign |
| Deepen visibility into network inventory operations with personalized configurable workspaces and dashboards | Network Inventory Workspace |
| Allocate telephone numbers and IP addresses | Inventory number allocation |
| Model your 5G network | Modeling a 5G xNF in Telecommunications Network Inventory |
| Associate customer orders with the required network resources to deliver a seamless service delivery experience | Telecommunications Network Inventory and Order Management for Telecommunications and Media |
Instantiate Equipment template using an asset and to generate a service request to procure the assets |
Telecommunications Network Inventory integration with Hardware Asset Management |
| Define a pack with user-defined attributes and update it against a CI record | Attribute packs |
| Provide a visualization of the circuit and its underlying connection elements | Visualization of circuits |
| Automate the network inventory's design and assign process using the function catalog and subflows | Telecommunication Network Inventory workflows in Flow Designer |
| Provide a visualization of the topology where the different elements in a network are organized and connected to one another | Visualization of network topology |
| Calculate the capacity of physical entities in your network to plan, monitor, and optimize the resources | Capacity management |
Revise and operationalize a Configuration Item |
Revision, operationalization, and decommission of a Configuration Item |
| Visualise and manage rack | Visualization of rack |