Change impact analysis and planning - Nova Context

When operators don’t have an accurate representation of their network, it’s difficult to access the impact of disruptions both planned and unplanned, manage where to send field technicians for maintenance activities as well as upgrade and plan for the future. Nova Context helps operators understand the impact of changes to existing resources and better manage planned service disruptions to minimize impact on VIP customers. It helps operators design more accurately, reducing the need for re-planning.

When defining a maintenance window, it’s critical to understand the dependencies between the resources involved and affected. That information is imperative in assessing whether to assign an upgrade or maintenance activity with a go or no-go status. In addition, when two different teams are working simultaneously on two completely different parts of the network, unless they coordinate the impact of their activities, they might unknowingly cause a service disruption. Nova Context works to help in both cases, making distributed planning safe by automating the detection of collisions.

When done manually, change impact analysis is a process that is quite cumbersome and expensive in terms of time spent to analyze a situation and get the necessary approvals required to go ahead and make changes. In addition, since the state of the network is constantly changing and evolving, something certainly happened in the network to alter its state from what is was when initially analyzed to where it currently stands. This is where Nova Context can help: automating the entire process and delivering up-to-date information in real time to help make planning and operations more agile and more reliable.