An Automatic Neighbor Relations Reality Check

With service providers investing heavily in advanced LTE and 5G technologies, skyrocketing cell growth magnifies technical complexities and creates long-term productivity challenges for RAN teams responsible for assuring subscriber handover performance. As neighboring cell relationships are at the center of call retainability and end-user service quality, service providers rely on Automatic Neighbor Relation (ANR) functionality to avoid time-consuming and manual configuration tasks. Unfortunately, most traditional ANR solutions fall short when it comes to accurately reflecting and assuring the subscriber experience. In this session NETSCOUT technology experts will: -Examine the business and customer impacts of cell neighbor under- and over-provisioning. -Identify the common pitfalls associated with conventional ANR methods. -Explore the benefits of a vendor-agnostic solution with stateful analysis and advanced data sets for machine-learning objectives. -Outline the importance of “re-farming” and reprovisioning to serve changing coverage and capacity goals.