The Autonomous Network Forum, organized by GSMA is a new and elevated program at MWC Barcelona to highlight the development and future outlook in network automation. This forum creates a platform where key players meet influential industry leaders from around the world who are driving the autonomous network partnership with operators, government, academia, telecom operator, policy maker and the private sectors.

CSPs around the world are embracing 5G technologies together with the distributed cloud network in a layered and virtualized architecture so as to transform their network for service innovations and new revenue streams. In response to this technology advances, we envisage that OSS will undergo transformations in the following years to meet the disruptive network technology change.

Marvin Fang, Deputy Director, Global OSS Solution of Whale Cloud, takes a deep-dive into autonomous network management with experts from Ericsson, China Unicom, Huawei, and Telefónica Deutschland.