Recently, Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA) announced the nominee list for the 27th Global Mobile (GLOMO) Awards, and Huawei's Autonomous Driving Network (ADN), developed in partnership with MTN Group, features prominently on the list.

GLOMO Awards is the highlight of the Mobile World Congress (MWC), which is one of the biggest annual events in the communications industry. The nomination highly recognizes the outstanding performance of Huawei's Autonomous Driving Network (ADN) in helping operators transform to digital intelligence. Recognition from the international authoritative communications jury indicates that ADN has a bright future.

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Guided by a belief that everybody deserves the benefits of a modern connected life, MTN Group proposes the "Ambition 2025" strategy to build the largest and most valuable digital network platforms in the Pan-African region. To empower this strategy, MTN Group cooperates with Huawei and gives Huawei sufficient support and trust. Since 2021, Huawei has been contributing to MTN Group's transformation to digital intelligence in fixed, wireless, and transport networks. During this period, a variety of intelligent network applications have been successfully implemented.

Given the outstanding commercial value, social value, and multi-domain network software innovation cases, this cooperation program was nominated for the "Best Network Software Breakthrough" award of GLOMO 2022.

In this program, ADN has adopted advanced technologies such as native intelligence, real-time awareness, cloud-network convergence, digital twin, network path optimization, and knowledge graph to achieve closed-loop full-lifecycle management of network and service operations. This helps MTN Group implement software technology innovations and solutions in IP, FTTH, and wireless networks. Consequently, MTN Group can better develop new businesses, improve TCO efficiency, and fulfill social responsibilities. Taking MTN South Africa Opco as an example, two major deployments were completed in 2021 including the Sleeping Cells Self-healing Solution and the Intelligent IP Private Line Solution for the first time in the African continent.

The Sleeping Cells Self-healing Solution with cross-domain fault automation for Radio Access Network services was deployed in MTN South Africa. This solution provides automation of sleeping cell monitoring, detection, diagnosis and recovery. More than 80% of the poor service due to sleeping cells issues were resolved and the resolution time was successfully reduced from 1 hour to 15 minutes after the solution has been deployed. For the Intelligent IP Private Line Solution deployment, ADN cooperates closely with HUAWEI CLOUD and MTN Group to provide a full spectrum of automatic and intelligent capabilities, including latency circle, CPE plug-and-play, HUAWEI CLOUD pre-integration, and one-stop cloud-network service provisioning with SRv6. MTN Group can give full play to their network advantages in the African continent and promote cloud and deliver one-stop digital services with the best-possible experience to Pan-African enterprise customers.

In the future, Huawei ADN will build on this, and through iterative optimization, provide more network autonomy scenarios to help operators and enterprises transform and upgrade to digital intelligence in the pursuit of a self-fulfilling, self-healing, and self-optimizing autonomous network. Underpinned by Huawei's “Communications Network 2030” strategy, it aims to deliver a zero-touch, zero-wait, and zero-trouble user experience.

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