Our client is pursuing a multi-year transformation of its network operations in Romania, moving fault management, monitoring and orchestration onto Celfocus's Autonomous Network Operations program. Celfocus proposed proving its value first, quickly, and then scaling with confidence.

The pilot, which kicked off in May 2026, aims to deliver cross-domain fault management across RAN and microwave transmission, while establishing a platform baseline designed to support the wider program. This marks the start of a multi-year journey running through 2027 and beyond, ultimately bringing the client's full Romanian network estate onto the Autonomous Network Operations program.

The Autonomous Network Operations program runs on Google Cloud Platform and is structured in five layers.

Observe handles network mediation, ingesting 1) real-time alarms from the client's Fault Management Umbrella (FMU) through a purpose-built FMU adaptor and 2) network topology data extracted from the client's inventory and OSS systems.

Data persists raw, standardised and curated data in the appropriate storage services, harmonizing, grouping, and exposing that information through a common layer - including a graph database - to support topology traversal, analytical processing and network digital twin use cases. Decide is the AI/ML-driven decision engine that performs cross-domain root-cause analysis, correlating RAN and microwave transmission alarms, filtering noise and automatically classifying alarms, backed by an MLOps pipeline for inference and ongoing model management.  

Act converts AI insights into orchestrated workflows, applying business rules and domain policies to execute predefined workflows associated with the outcomes produced by Decide layer.  

A Unified Operations Portal sit across all four, giving operators a single point of monitoring, control and analytics.

The pilot itself is being delivered in three structured phases:  

• Analysis & Design (solution architecture, infrastructure design, DevSecOps design),  

• Infrastructure & Platform Deployment (GCP environment setup, observability and CI/CD pipeline configuration, baseline solution deployment, security audit)

• Country Domain Configuration (build and deployment of the client in Romania specific configuration)

The pilot closes with a three-week, client-led validation phase in a pre-production environment running real production data.

The pilot delivers measurable operational impact from day one: cross-domain correlation across RAN and microwave transmission for unified fault management with root-cause analysis, ML-driven noise filtering and alarm classification to cut mean-time-to-detect and mean-time-to-act and a single operations portal with analytics dashboards for end-to-end visibility. Progress is tracked against a defined set of business outcomes.

Just as importantly, nothing built for the pilot is single-use. The GCP-ready platform baseline - with the Observe, Data and Decide layers, Portal and orchestration/workflow management already pre-integrated is designed to carry directly into the full Romania rollout, with initial configurations for data, decision logic and topology ready to be reused rather than rebuilt.

By proving the platform on a contained, well-defined scope first, Celfocus reduces delivery risk on a multi-year, multi-domain program while building reusable assets that extend well beyond Romania. The same GCP-ready baseline is designed to accelerate deployment for the client's other GCP-based affiliates, turning a single-country pilot into a repeatable blueprint. The engagement also reinforces Celfocus's Autonomous Networks proposition, combining multi-domain and multi-layer operations, digital twin thinking and agentic AI.

With the pilot well underway through the second half of 2026, it will next move into a three-week, client-led validation phase. Meanwhile, discussions are progressing on continuing the project to deliver the full scope and onboarding the next affiliates. The same reusable components position the Autonomous Network Operations program for rollout across the client's other affiliates, ahead of an eventual handover of operations and support to the client's own teams.

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