Challenges
Rising RAN Complexity Threatens Performance, Efficiency, and Growth
As 5G networks mature, mobile operators face growing RAN complexity driven by higher traffic volumes, latency-sensitive applications, and new deployment models such as Fixed Wireless Access (FWA), dual connectivity, and network slicing. Traditional RAN monitoring methods that are often reliant on vendor-specific counters, logs, or drive testing struggle to keep pace with these demands.
RAN planning, RF, and operations teams need deeper, more reliable visibility to quickly isolate mobility and performance issues, optimize capacity investments, and maintain service quality at scale without increasing operational cost or complexity.
With NETSCOUT, operators gain the critical RAN insights needed to streamline operations, protect service quality, and support continued 5G growth.
Outcomes That Matter
Real Outcomes. Real RAN Impact.
Field Proven Solution
More than 4000 unique daily system users and over 7 million monitored LTE and 5G cells worldwide.
Efficient Outcome-Oriented Datasets
Curated, AI-ready datasets for use with NETSCOUT RAN analytics or export to big data lakes and third-party systems.
Complete, Accurate View of Subscriber Experience
End-to-end, 24x7, real-time visibility and geolocation of all calls correlated by cell, device and subscriber.
Vendor-Independence
NEM traceport collection and AI-normalized metrics enable unbiased decision-making and open RAN support.
High Scalability
Cloud-native solution scales gracefully for networks serving hundreds of millions of subscribers with over 2 million cells.
NETSCOUT’s Solution and How It Delivers Value
Delivering RAN Intelligence That Drives Action
NETSCOUT delivers a RAN-centric analytics and automation-ready solution designed to support operators from pre-launch through full-scale 5G operations and beyond.
At the foundation, highly scalable ISNG RAN instrumentation continuously collects and decodes every control-plane message directly from network element traceports on a 24x7 basis. This approach removes dependence on delayed, vendor-specific counters and logs, providing a complete and accurate view of real network behavior. Each message is automatically correlated by call and enriched with subscriber and device context, enabling calculation of hundreds of performance metrics per call.
Better RAN Data for Better Business Results
These curated, outcome-oriented datasets are made available to RAN planning, RF, and operations teams through Omnis RAN Analytics and TrueCall geoanalytics. Teams gain on-demand visual insight into coverage gaps, configuration errors, handover performance, carrier aggregation usage, and mobility behavior—prioritized by the actual number of impacted subscribers.
By preserving causality and context, NETSCOUT’s datasets are optimized for both advanced analytics and AI model consumption, enabling automation-ready workflows and faster, more confident root cause analysis. The cloud-native architecture scales efficiently to support networks with millions of cells and hundreds of millions of subscribers, while seamlessly fitting into existing operational workflows.
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FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
Does NETSCOUT support O-RAN and SON initiatives?
With 5G, vendor-agnostic RAN monitoring solutions are needed to manage the diverse landscape and emerging architectures in support of RAN service offerings such as Traffic Steering, QoE/QoS, Massive MIMO, RAN Sharing, and Network Slicing.
The prioritization of a scalable, cloud-based platform from NETSCOUT will cost-effectively address multifactorial issues associated with opening the RAN including IP transport assurance, cell performance, vendor interoperability, handover analysis, cell analysis at the edge, RAN Intelligence Controller (RIC) performance, automated policies, and data feeds.
How does NETSCOUT help Service Providers reduce OPEX with 5G networks?
With service providers looking to reduce OPEX with 5G, visibility into configuration management and automation frameworks can reduce operational risk and improve the end user experience.
NETSCOUT’s 4G/5G RAN solutions deliver this visibility and automation with deep insights into the performance for key RAN activities and business objectives.
Leveraging a cloud docker framework, the vendor-agnostic solution is 3GPP compliant and suitable for networks of any size and at any stage in the 5G Lifecycle.
How does NETSCOUT help Service Providers improve network design tasks?
Inaccuracies in Radio Frequency (RF) propagation models can put network planning and optimization activities at risk.
NETSCOUT enables network planners and RF network design engineers to base decisions on science fact, not fiction.
Drawing insights from continuous wave-based measurements and actual subscriber traffic, our RF Propagation Model Calibration programs utilize an ever-expanding library of tuned models for more efficient network design.
How can NETSCOUT help Service Providers maximize mobile revenue streams?
Counter declining ARPU and encourage subscriber loyalty with a GeoMarketing solution rooted in automated RAN analytics and machine learning.
Advanced NETSCOUT algorithms and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) enhance subscriber geolocation accuracy and provide opportunities to increase top-line revenue through subscriber location-based services without the need for GPS.
