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Support and maintenance – SaaS efficiencies The benefits of the scale and efficiency of the cloud-native planning architecture compared to a desktop-based planning approach is similarly visible in reduced time and cost of support and maintenance. Legacy desktop-based planning approaches come with the need for IT Admin support to ensure security patches are installed, software is updated and systems are running smoothly, not to mention the added cost of recurring annual software licenses. In contrast, with a cloud-based approach, the IT time and cost spent installing, upgrading and maintaining a software solution is no longer required, and there is no annual software support and maintenance costs to be paid. Taken together, the migration from a legacy desktop-based RAN planning product to a cloud-native, SaaS-based solution including geodata and tuned models, can directly translate into healthy ROI due to its simplicity and requirement for no internal IT administration.
Time savings of between 17-19% are typical across use cases. For a network planning services company engaged in a short-term project for the planning of a single network cluster, this 19% time saving could shave days and even weeks off the delivery, creating a significant competitive advantage. For a company such as chemical producer planning a private mobile network across multiple plant locations, on-demand access to validated 3D and 2D geodata and pre-calibrated propagation models can drive OPEX savings in excess of $100,000 over the lifecycle of the network. Similar is true for RAN planning teams in small regional mobile operators through to network planning services companies working on large- scale projects. The numbers will be different but the results the same – faster, more accurate, more efficient network planning that delivers against clear business KPIs.
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