With the provision of more IP based services and increasing momentum for cloud based services, ensuring the high availability of networks and guaranteeing the SLA is becoming more challenging. The document looks at the mechanisms available to improve availability of IP network and offers certain recommendations.

Smartphones are undergoing rapid development. For example, the smartphone penetration is expected to be over 50% by 2015 in Western European countries. This has been pushing data traffic into drastic increases.

With the introduction of IP technology into communications networks, telecom operators can run various services on the same network at a relatively low cost, thereby dramatically improving transmission resource utilization and simplifying the network structure. However, the Internet Protocol (IP), as its name suggests, originates from the Internet and therefore may not match what telecom services bearing requires, and consequently create a host of problems in network O&M.

The Huawei series of customized network risk management solutions can help operators improve the quality of network operations, enable them to forecast, prevent, and reduce network risks, and eliminate hidden network faults to promote the healthy and orderly development of their operations.

Business support systems are presently burdening operators with their cost, inefficiency, and poor support for new Internet applications; standardization, virtualization, and multi-tenancy are needed in both their architectures and services. With these in place, large operators can unify their product & service offerings and open new revenue streams by making their business support infrastructure available as a service.