Data, software and interoperability
Service level objectives
Measured objectives for availability, latency and freshness per product.
We design and operate.
ISO/IEC 20000-1:2018
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Service levelsWritten as numbers you can measure.
Service levels, inside Operations centre: service level objectives, streaming telemetry and flow export, closed-loop assurance, performance measurement and KPIs. Every item is traced to its specification, from ISO/IEC 20000-1:2018 to OpenConfig gNMI specification, and runs on the open Observatory Protocol.
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Service level objectives
Measured objectives for availability, latency and freshness per product. In service levels, part of Operations centre, the digital twins and observability layer holds service level objectives, drawn against ISO/IEC 20000-1:2018. We build it into every site for service levels against that standard, and keep its version and its test results on the site’s record.
The problem
Written as numbers you can measure
Networks generate alarms day and night. Without a team that owns them, alarms are muted, incidents repeat and service levels are argued about instead of measured. Nobody can say how well the network is really performing, or what each outage cost the people relying on it.
Key facts
- Specification
- ISO/IEC 20000-1:2018
- Specification
- 3GPP TS 28.552 (5G performance measurements) · 3GPP TS 28.554 (5G end-to-end KPIs)
- Specification
- 3GPP TS 28.535 (communication service assurance) · ETSI GS ZSM 002
- Specification
- OpenConfig gNMI specification · IETF RFC 7011 (IPFIX)
- Standards
- ISO/IEC 20000-1:2018 · OpenConfig gNMI specification · IETF RFC 7011 · 3GPP TS 28.552
Components
- Rugged shock-isolated 7U transit rack case, lids off
- Particulate monitoring station and sensor node
- Radar stream gauge on a road bridge
- Street small-cell pole with an air-quality node
- “AI tower in a box”
- Data hall row pair with cold-aisle containment
- Network operations centre with a curved video wall
- Field-service crew vehicle
Interfaces
- Radio
- Ethernet
- Time and position
- PTP (IEEE 1588)
Where it works
- Closed-loop assurance
In the story below
- The system, part by part
- Assembly
- Installation
- Deployment
- Connections
- Operation
- Failure and recovery
- Scale and federation
- What you get
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Plan a deploymentOpen the Field Deployment StudioSee Operations centreSee Managed servicesOperations centre · Service levels
Written as numbers you can measure
Networks generate alarms day and night. Without a team that owns them, alarms are muted, incidents repeat and service levels are argued about instead of measured. Nobody can say how well the network is really performing, or what each outage cost the people relying on it.
What it does
Service level objectives
Measured objectives for availability, latency and freshness per product. In service levels, part of Operations centre, the digital twins and observability layer holds service level objectives, drawn against ISO/IEC 20000-1:2018. We build it into every site for service levels against that standard, and keep its version and its test results on the site’s record.
- Specification
- ISO/IEC 20000-1:2018
RAN planning, optimisation and assurance
Performance measurement and KPIs
Standard counters and end-to-end KPIs for accessibility, retainability, throughput and latency. In service levels, part of Operations centre, the RAN planning, optimisation and assurance layer holds performance measurement and KPIs, drawn against 3GPP TS 28.552 and 3GPP TS 28.554. We build it into every site for service levels against that standard, and keep its version and its test results on the site’s record.
- Specification
- 3GPP TS 28.552 (5G performance measurements) · 3GPP TS 28.554 (5G end-to-end KPIs)
Network automation and intent
Closed-loop assurance
Detect, diagnose and remediate loops tied to service KPIs. In service levels, part of Operations centre, the network automation and intent layer holds closed-loop assurance, drawn against 3GPP TS 28.535 and ETSI GS ZSM 002. We build it into every site for service levels against that standard, and keep its version and its test results on the site’s record.
- Specification
- 3GPP TS 28.535 (communication service assurance) · ETSI GS ZSM 002
Time and place
When and where, on every record
Every record made for service levels carries its time, from a clock disciplined by satellite time or a PTP grandmaster, with the position and siting record of the station that made it. When time or position degrades, the record for service levels says so, and every user downstream sees the same warning.
Network automation and intent
Streaming telemetry and flow export
Push-based state and flow data that replace slow polling. In service levels, part of Operations centre, the network automation and intent layer holds streaming telemetry and flow export, drawn against OpenConfig gNMI specification and IETF RFC 7011. We build it into every site for service levels against that standard, and keep its version and its test results on the site’s record.
- Specification
- OpenConfig gNMI specification · IETF RFC 7011 (IPFIX)
Trust
Proved before it is trusted
A node joins a network for service levels only after its hardware root of trust answers an attestation challenge. Its keys stay in secure hardware, its software arrives signed and every record it makes for service levels carries a signature, so anyone downstream can check where a value came from.
Evidence
Traced to its specifications
We trace each part of service levels to its specification: ISO/IEC 20000-1:2018, OpenConfig gNMI specification and IETF RFC 7011. We keep the versions, configurations and test results of service levels as signed records, so a buyer or an auditor can check what was delivered against what was specified.
- Standards
- ISO/IEC 20000-1:2018 · OpenConfig gNMI specification · IETF RFC 7011 · 3GPP TS 28.552
Operations
Every node watched, every incident closed
The operations console shows every node of a network for service levels with its state, its plan and its evidence. An alert arrives with its data and a runbook, acknowledging it opens a work order, and an incident for service levels closes only when the operator records the cause and verifies the fix.
Updates
Updates in rings, with rollback
Software and configuration reach a fleet for service levels in rings: one canary site first, then a few, then all, each ring gated on health and data completeness. A failed gate stops the wave, and each node for service levels returns to its last good release without a site visit.
How it scales
One base unit, repeated
A network for service levels starts with one base node and the instruments it reads. A station adds power and radio, a site adds a relay and a fleet repeats the proven site, so capacity for service levels grows by adding units, never by replacing what works.
Managed services
We run it; you use what it observes
The status and incident record format is open. Managed Site, network operations and service-level reporting are contracted; pricing follows the sites and the service levels chosen, and changes as the network grows. You keep the data and the records; we keep the network healthy, updated, calibrated and repaired to the levels agreed.
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Service levels, planned with you
Tell us the sites, the systems service levels must work with and the outcome you need, with a map or a list of addresses if you have one. An engineer replies with a survey proposal, a design and a scope for service levels, and the plan grows from one site to the network you need.
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Interactive tool · Plan a site Field Deployment StudioTerrain, devices, coverage, viewshed, power and the best spot for a station, then a deployment request with the plan attached.01What it is
Digital twins and observability.
How observations move from the edge into stores, catalogues and APIs with their provenance, licence and residency attached, and how they interoperate through open standards and the open Observatory Protocol. The networks behind the radio: the 5G core and its functions, slicing and edge breakout, IMS voice and emergency calling, fronthaul, midhaul and backhaul over microwave, E-band, fibre, free-space optics and satellite, IP/MPLS and segment routing, IPv6, automation and intent, and the security that holds it together. The radio access network from site to spectrum: macro, small cells, DAS and repeaters, massive MIMO, NR bands and TDD synchronisation, NR features such as RedCap, positioning and sidelink, private and shared networks, Wi-Fi coexistence, 6G and ISAC, and the planning and assurance that keep it working. Each technology below carries what it is, what we do with it, and the standard it is drawn against.
Core and transport networks
Streaming telemetry and flow export
Push-based state and flow data that replace slow polling.
We design, integrate and operate.
OpenConfig gNMI specification · IETF RFC 7011 (IPFIX)
Core and transport networks
Closed-loop assurance
Detect, diagnose and remediate loops tied to service KPIs.
We design and operate.
3GPP TS 28.535 (communication service assurance) · ETSI GS ZSM 002
5G and 6G radio access networks
Performance measurement and KPIs
Standard counters and end-to-end KPIs for accessibility, retainability, throughput and latency.
We operate and maintain.
3GPP TS 28.552 (5G performance measurements) · 3GPP TS 28.554 (5G end-to-end KPIs)
02Architecture
Where it sits, and what it speaks.
Service levels draws on the spectrum below; the highlighted layers carry this area, and the protocol functions it speaks are marked.
Edge tiers and multi-access edge computing
9
Modular edge data centres and the AI tower in a box
8
Servers and accelerators
8
Storage and edge data management
6
Cooling and ruggedisation
10
Kubernetes and fleet orchestration
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OTA updates, GitOps and software supply chain
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Confidential computing and hardware trust
8
Device identity and attestation
8
PKI, secure boot and updates
7
Zero trust and network security
7
5G and wireless security
6
OT security and software supply chain
9
Privacy and data protection
7
Keys, cryptography and post-quantum migration
9
Monitoring, incident response and governance
8
01Join Identity, attestation quote, signed policy.
02Admit Admitted for a stated scope, nothing wider.
03Describe What, where, how and by whom, with calibration.
04Time One clock across the grid, with its error bound.
05Observe Every value with quality and provenance.
06Qualify Tested against the specification, state on record.
07Federate Signed exchange across grids and trust domains.
08Orchestrate Software and configuration by signed plan.
09Correct A correction marks what depends on it and publishes a new version.
10Exchange Products reach people and applications through versioned interfaces.
11Prove Signed proof receipts that an independent verifier can check.
12Exit and decommission An open exit path, and a record that closes.
03On the grid
Every site joins one observing grid.
The open networks on the grid today, over real relief and the geodesic cells we count them into. A site built here enrols into the same grid.
The observing grid
- Open instruments on the observing grid.
04In the field
Where this runs, sector by sector.
Deployment scenarios from the sector research that rely on service levels.
Environment and climateMethane fenceline and site-level continuous monitoring
Regulatory cadences in the EU and reporting levels in voluntary frameworks.ScientificResearch-infrastructure gap-filling nodes
Observatory-as-a-service for research infrastructures that must extend coverage under their own quality rules.Government and public safetyDeployable communications and sensing for incident command
A cell on wheels with satellite backhaul, mesh telemetry and environment nodes at the incident base.IndustrialMine-wide private LTE or 5G with environmental sensing
Autonomy communications plus dust, blast vibration, slope and tailings monitoring.IndustrialContinuous methane monitoring
Fenceline sensors and optical gas imaging under regulatory leak-detection cadences.AgricultureFarm or cooperative agromet network with crop models
Compact stations and soil probes feeding irrigation, disease and frost models.05Open and enterprise
Open by default. Enterprise by contract.
The open counterpart lives on the main site for anyone to read and run. The enterprise service is designed, deployed and operated with you, under contract.
Open, on the main site
- Status and incident record format
Enterprise, on this site
- Managed Site
- Network operations
- Service-level reporting
06The rest of the line
Operations centre, area by area.
Operations centreMonitoring
Fleets, sites and links, in one view.Operations centreIncident response
From first alarm to root cause.Operations centreManaged services
We run it; you use what it observes.Operations centreReporting
Uptime, completeness and repairs, on record.Bring us the site.
Survey, design, deployment and operation for service levels. The form names who receives your details.
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