VodafoneZiggo
“ Telco networks used to be reactive . This means that if there was an outage , a technician was sent out to fix it . Then our networks evolved to become more proactive , meaning we could see what was happening in the network before events even occurred . Currently , we are in the transition to create preventive networks , where the network itself sees and detects if there is an issue ongoing and , without any manual intervention , issues get resolved ,” he added .
VodafoneZiggo is now in the stage where from a preventive point of view , they can detect cable damages . Underground monitoring tools can tell if the signal level on the cable is getting slowly weaker . Even before customers are noticing anything from
“ WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE TYPES OF PROCESSES BECOME MORE AND MORE AUTOMATED AND MORE SELF- HEALING ”
LEO-GEERT VAN DEN BERG DIRECTOR FIXED NETWORK , VodafoneZiggo technologymagazine . com 67