Summary Bullets:
- TEOCO unveiled its support for the 5G Innovation Center in a bid to elevate its ecosystem influence in the nascent development of 5G technology, especially with starting gate inclusion of SON capabilities.
- TEOCO needs to develop or acquire orchestration platforms to ensure it can play a pivotal role in operator adoption of 5G technology, particularly in relation to OSS transformation aspects.
TEOCO’s decision to back the 5G Innovation Center (5GIC), located at the University of Surrey (UK), yielded a sales and marketing opportunity to promote its network planning and optimization portfolio for use and application at the 5GIC. The TEOCO portfolio assets include:
- Helix, its cloud-based platform designed to provide service assurance with real-time analytics and machine learning;
- ASSET, its radio planning product which includes small-cell planning; and
- DIMENSION, developed for end-to-end visualization and capacity planning.