Benefits of Intent-Driven Autonomous Networks

Nowadays, the service offering is usually created by the service provider. Then, the customer can choose one of the options or combine the offerings – as long as they are compatible. On the other hand, business logic based on the customer’s intentions and desires is changing the way services are offered to customers. This new business paradigm allows users of different services to choose the price of their desired service. This methodological shift of supply and demand, where the user makes the offer and the operator satisfies the demand, offers advantages for both parties and introduces a new business model.

Customers and operators can now mutually benefit from this new way of doing business:

1. Allowing the use of idle capacity that operators present in hours of low use of their networks. Transforming idle capacity into usable capacity based on intents.Typically, the operator’s networks or resources are well below 100% utilization – leaving periods where resources are not used and have idle capacity. That is why this new model presents the option of being used based on attempts and transforming unused capacity into income or revenue.
2. Enabling the participation of resellers (Brokers), where the same service can be offered at the best price, based on intents and selecting the best relation offer/price between the Network Operator’s offerings.Since the user can offer the price to be paid for the service, third parties can provide the broker service by searching for the best offer/price ratio between different operators by invoking different attempts. In this way, instead of the end user having to make multiple attempts with different operators, he/she only generates one intent request to the broker, who then searches for the best option, reducing the complexity of the integration.
3. Allowing the end users to propose the price they want and can pay for the service.The traditional model is based on the operator’s offer; the user can only choose between offers. The strength of this new intent-driven approach changes this model, where the customer now offers through an intent what he/she is willing to pay for a particular service, and the operator will then notify when the desired service can be consumed.
4. Enhancing multi-vendor integrations – based on API standards.This model is based entirely on the use of standard APIs defined by this multi-operator, multi-vendor catalyst team, aligned to this new intent paradigm, and focused on easy integration.

Intraway’s technology will continue to transform the telecoms industry to maximize network utilization and standardize APIs so that integrations can be done as quickly and efficiently as possible.