Proof-of-concept projects
See innovation come to life
Catalysts are rapid-fire proof-of-concept projects developed collaboratively by TM Forum members to solve common industry challenges, validated by communications service providers and industry stakeholders. The teams deliver projects and solutions that leverage key TM Forum best practices and standards to ensure scalability, reuse across multiple applications, and reduced costs and risk.
At DTW23 - Ignite, 50+ Catalyst teams will showcase their solutions in the Innovation Labs area. This includes exciting Moonshot Catalysts addressing vital industry challenges about the Metaverse and Energy efficiency. Their innovation will amaze and inspire you! Projects will be added weekly, stay tuned!
Catalyst champions include:
2023 Catalyst projects
Promoting sustainable mental health and diversity in a trusted AI domain – Phase III
This Catalyst is implementing an AI trust measurement system to ensure that AI models and algorithms are built, deliverd and maintained to be inclusive, responsible and ethical, in support of UN sustainability goals.
URN: C23.0.463
GenAI hyper-personalized customer experience
This Catalyst uses Accenture’s Customer Data Architecture, Google’s Vertex AI and Pega’s Customer Decision Hub to provide a self-learning personalized customer experience interface that anticipates potential customer churn so customers can be proactively retained.
URN: C23.0.497
Billing hub
This Catalyst creates a new plug-and-play billing platform which enables cross-country integration of invoices generated under complex billing models with usage ratings, tiered pricing models, and cross-company discounting.
URN: C23.0.512
SHINE: Simple hyperscaler integrated network experience
This Catalyst will create a standardised method by which CSPs can push APIs to a product catalog and expose them in hyperscaler portals as native services and use the Open Digital Architecture framework to align a common set of standards for network-as-a-service capabilities and hyperscaler integration.
URN: C23.0.516
Harnessing data insights for the automotive industry – Phase III
This Catayst uses privacy computing technology to securely combine the data of CSPs and vehicle manufacturers to accelerate their development opportunities.
URN: C23.0.528
Digital Twin for network operations – Phase II
This Catalyst uses a tri-level digital twin network management solution to accurately visualize physical and computing resources and operation status for complex network failure playback – enabling innovative data services, improved network resilience, simplified operations and new B2B opportunities for CSPs.
URN: C23.0.530
Digital carbon footprint optimization
This Moonshot Catalyst helps CSPs provide their products with sustainability ratings by equipping them with the relevant product data and helping them automatically assemble and distribute the greener offers.
URN: M23.0.538
Smart 5G
This Catalyst combines research on user behavior, perception data and beamforming to form a usage map to help achieve intelligent coverage output, compensate outages and provide businesses with network scheduling and coverage specific according to their needs.
URN: C23.0.539
Revolutionizing service assurance through AI powered, intent-based systems for continuity and customer satisfaction
This Catalyst project aims to demonstrate how AI/ML can be used to improve SA for converged Telco Cloud CaaS and CNFs and help to reduce the signal-to-noise ratio, enable root cause analysis, and automate remediation.
URN: C23.0.549
Creating a sustainable digital future: low-carbon networks
This Moonshot Catalyst demonstrates innovations in intent-driven energy management, cooling, energy-saving and green power use to help mobile networks in China alone save 3.8 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity and reduce carbon emissions by 102,600 tons over just one year.
URN: M23.0.550
Value realization on cognitive service experience operations
This Catalyst demonstrates the value of integrating cognitive intelligence into service experience. By capturing customer actions and behaviors, Champions can gain insights into customer preferences and craft positive responses. These affirmations subtly cultivate customer affinity towards the Champions, even on a subconscious level.
URN: C23.0.551
Supercharge any activity in any metaverse
This Catalyst showcases a single platform where a consortium of global CSPs can supercharge their customers’ in-metaverse activity with on-demand connectivity, provide unique customer engagement and monetization models, and connect the virtual and physical worlds.
URN: M23.0.554
Closing the metaverse chasm: Monetizing the ecosystem
This Metaverse challenge Moonshot Catalyst is enabling CSPs to play a greater role in the metaverse value chain by bringing business model innovation and monetizing immersive partner services. CSPs will be able to expand the scope of what they sell by keeping the customer engaged for longer in their metaverse and embedding connectivity with equipment in partner offers and avatars.
URN: M23.0.494
Building customer trust through a multi-network assurance platform- Phase III
This Catalyst helps CSPs assume the role of the natural ‘go-to’ by creating a highly automated platform for software-defined smart networks which includes a state-of-the-art customer portal and AI ops assurance.
URN: C23.0.565
Digital business marketplace – Phase VI
This Catalyst uses TM Forum’s Open Digital Architecture to create a plug-and-play architecture and APIs that the travel industry can use to deploy smart services across a number of applications such as power consumption, retail, security and immigration processing.
URN: M23.0.567
Experience guaranteed connectivity
This Catalyst will demonstrate how to automatically validate services before offering them to a given customer – throughout ordering, activation, and provision.
URN: C23.0.582
Green and efficient radio access networks
This Catalyst will seek to improve network configuration profiles, use artificial intelligence for resource allocation and help implement more efficient use of antennas – allowing CSPs to create more sustainable, cost-effective networks as demand intensifies.
URN: M23.0.584
Trustworthy computing transaction service
This Catalyst seeks to define a trusted and transparent computing transaction system, enabled by blockchain and AI technologies. In collaboration with computing service transaction providers, it will examine how to dynamically match requests and supplies for computing service consumptions.
URN: C23.0.588
Sustainability scoring for all
This Catalyst proposes a system for scoring suppliers and partners to help CSPs achieve their goal and incentivize the broader ecosystem to do the same. By using an RDL-network blockchain protocol, this proof of concept will be capable of automatically examining and measuring the impact of all kinds of products suppliers have to offer.
URN: M23.0.589
Intelligence and value driven digital operation transformation for network
This Catalyst will create an intelligent operations framework that can be built to phase in other core processes over time, and enable CSPs to identify customer demand and potential revenue.
URN: C23.0.591
POP! CSPs curating markets at the edge
This Catalyst will demonstrate how CSPs, playing the role of a marketplace orchestrator, can offer zero-touch NaaS-based offers from multiple parties, generating additional revenue streams for itself and marketplace suppliers, and ultimately creating value to the customer.
URN: C23.0.599
Zero carbon intelligent network
This Catalyst aims to identify innovative methods for reducing energy consumption in 5G base stations, leveraging AI energy-saving applications and creating a green ‘5G+ intelligent green network’ to help enterprises reduce carbon emissions.
URN: M23.0.602
Hyper-boost cloud native transformation for telecom
This Catalyst will build a new full-stack cloud native architecture at the infrastructural level, application level, and management level. When scaled, the solution will realize computing power offloading, accelerated computing and flexible switching of multiple resources, improving resource utilization and reducing energy consumption.
URN: C23.0.505
B2B employee digital engagement drives lifetime value
This Catalyst enables CPS to offer their B2B customers a differentiated experience for employees to achieve the desired outcomes swiftly, while turning every interaction into an opportunity for the CSP to add value and grow brand loyalty through detailed mapping of the customer journey with AI and actionable business insights.
URN: C23.0.455
Intent-driven closed-loop autonomous services towards next-generation networks
This Catalyst will create a platform to enable CSPs to perceive changes in customer requirements in real time via a closed-loop autonomous network environment, and update network services in minutes for multiple business scenarios including end-to-end slicing and cloud-leased lines.
URN: C23.0.467
AI-powered cooperation for efficient networks
This Catalyst aims to improve the coefficient used to maintain an economical cost/service ratio – enabling CSPs to achieve continuous optimization of resource allocation and improve policies around service offerings.
URN: C23.0.472
Paving the way for dynamic network sharing
This Catalyst aims to enable a marketplace for CSPs to provide cloud fabric to enterprise customers based on dynamic network infrastructure sharing (xNFs) with hyperscalers, OTT service providers and partner CSPs.
URN: C23.0.495
Intelligent edge for sustainable agriculture – Phase II
This Catalyst is creating a scalable open blueprint for efficient delivery of 5G network slicing, MEC orchestration and sustainability services, making it easier for ag-tech solution providers to onboard products and applications while demonstrating measurable benefits to farmers.
URN: C23.0.504
Ultimate connected car experience enhancing digital lifestyle
Champions and partners demonstrate the implementation of a Smart City with Connected Car platforms, adding value to the car experience and enriching the digital driving lifestyle through data analytics for understanding distinct car segments. This endeavor, in turn, fosters sustainable urban growth and benefits CSPs as well.
URN: C23.0.509
Techco practicing decision intelligence for sustainable growth
This Catalyst showcases the collaborative efforts of our Champions and Partners in transforming from Telco to Techco. This transformation is achieved through the deployment of Autonomous Operations and TM Forum Frameworks. Champions enhance their decision intelligence capabilities to better serve their target customers and attain sustainable long-term growth.
URN: C23.0.511
NICE API: Network insights for customer experience
This Catalyst will engage ecosystem participants and CSPs to help identify the most desired network APIs, data and insights; abstract them and identify their limitations; and then standardize them across the industry by anchoring to the Open Digital Architecture framework and creating documentation to support alignment to standard process APIs.
URN: C23.0.513
Private optimized connectivity
This Catalyst will create a process API to support activating a private local port for an application hosted on the cloud, to ensure a path to local customers through the best broadband connection possible, and create documentation to ensure API alignment and reuse.
URN: C23.0.515
DataFabric-based intelligent data sharing
This Catalyst realizes closed-loop integration of data production, development and governance to remove operational barriers, reduce costs and increase the value of data through sophisticate knowledge maps, while bringing response times below 30ms even for thousands of concurrent requests.
URN: C23.0.517
Smart financial accounting with RPA and AI
This Catalyst aims to develop ‘digital employees’ through a robotic process automation (RPA) platform to assist complex planning and decision-making, while helping to avoid repetitive manual tasks in tax, capital management, retail, travel, and financial data.
URN: C23.0.520
Revolutionizing telecom operations empowered in the metaverse by AI generated content – Phase III
Having created avatars for consumer and business scenarios, this phase three Catalyst seeks to build whole worlds for users to tread. By using AI-generated content (AIGC) technologies like AutoGPT to undertake this, far more personalized and engaging metaverse experience can be created.
URN: M23.0.525
Digi-boost connectivity services
This Catalyst incorporates AI into gigabit broadband provision to ensure network resources are most efficiently allocated to each application – improving operations and energy efficiency, while helping CSPs to better understand user preferences.
URN: C23.0.529
GenAI and knowledge driven 5G operations
This Catalyst will realize intelligent cognitive decision-making in network operations by automatically collecting and processing network data, then matching solutions to issues with a self-learning AI model, which in turn can enable intent-based, closed-loop network operations, building the knowledge maps needed for increasingly autonomous network maintenance.
URN: C23.0.537
AN empowers distinctive experience for cognitive transformation
This Catalyst shows how to improve high-value L3 and L4 scenarios including IP, transmission and core networks, and service domains – improving standards of efficiency in operations and maintenance (O&M) and user experience and helping CSPs achieve higher customer satisfaction with guaranteed SLAs.
URN: C23.0.542
Unlocking B2B2X value for 5G smart spaces – Phase III
This Catalyst demonstrates the necessary foundations smart spaces require in the form of settlements and reconciliations between CSPs sharing network and edge infrastructure; a monetization platform for all parties; and an orchestration platform to assist with deployment.
URN: C23.0.557
Evaluation of autonomous network service experience for the cloud network
This Catalyst aims to streamline the “three-layer and four-loop” of autonomous networks via APIs between operators’ OSSs and OMCs, regardless of differences in O&M capabilities – achieving self-intelligent network service ratings to guide the evolution of autonomous networks.
URN: C23.0.573
Open SATCOM management
This Catalyst seeks to facilitate better interoperability across LEO, MEO, and GEO fleet managers by defining standardized satellite connectivity technologies, products, and related APIs for the most common interactions for customer-oriented and network maintenance use cases.
URN: C23.0.579
Autonomous networks hyperloops – Phase IV
This Catalyst will show how combining autonomous network operations with digital twin technology, intent-based frameworks, and AR/VR capabilities in the Metaverse can produce a single interface to help CSPs enable seamless, high-quality connected experiences in the industrial, emergency service, and energy sectors.
URN: M23.0.586
5G industry edge cube
This Catalyst will build an edge system of self-evolution and heterogeneous convergence to integrate intelligent edge computing power and 5G network capabilities for industrial applications.
URN: C23.0.534
Converged access with ODA – Phase II
By using TM Forum Open Digital Architecture, ODA components and Open APIs, this Catalyst enables end-to-end closed loop assurance across various technologies and applications such as 5G networks, IoT, NaaS, and Industry 4.0.
URN: C23.0.561
AsyncAPI – Phase II
This Catalyst focuses on creating ODA component(s) for event-driven architecture to demonstrate enhanced customer experiences with E2E closed-loop assurance, delivering higher service resilience and supporting use cases in 5G networks, IoT, NaaS, and Industry 4.0.
URN: C23.0.562
Intent-driven autonomous networks – Phase III
This Catalyst aims to create a comprehensive view of intent APIs in order to unlock the potential business benefits that can be generated using intent in autonomous networks.
URN: C23.0.563
Autonomous customer experience index (CEI) for zero-touch 5G network – Phase III
This Catalyst uses zero-touch 5G network operations to enable an autonomous customer experience index (CEI) based on users’ perceived quality of service metrics, which can be processed using state-of-the-art digital twin technology and machine learning algorithms for service orchestration.
URN: C23.0.568
Autonomous cloud network operation for vertical industries – Phase II
This Catalyst seeks to simplify the process of providing network services and related SLAs for the myriad organizations that need them by focusing on specific production scenarios of cloud network operations.
URN: C23.0.576
Zero-touch digital services marketplace – Phase V
This Catalyst is producing a horizontal platform based on TM Forum ODA to deliver single-pane reporting in smart stadiums, healthcare, gaming and others – helping CSPs to move beyond connectivity and become digital ecosystem providers.
URN: C23.0.577
Channels & markets – Phase III
This Catalyst removes the ‘catalog barrier’ by ingesting service provider products and services into the CSP catalog used by buyers, helping suppliers avoid the need to implement their own catalogs, and so bringing a greater diversity of offerings to CSPs’ customers quickly.
URN: C23.0.578
Rise of the bots
This Catalyst uses a focused maturity model to identify best practices and pitfalls of transforming the CSP’s organization, talent and culture. The results can be used as a framework to guide other CSPs on retraining the workforce fit for digital transformation.
URN: C23.0.583
Metaverse enablement through standard APIs
5G networks are critical to enabling Metaverse and XR applications. Crucial to building these products are standardized APIs that developers can use with ease. This Catalyst will create a set of APIs that uses 5G’s capabilities to build an innovative Metaverse solution.
URN: M23.0.592
Unlocking revenue and efficiency with intent-driven autonomous operations – Phase III
This Catalyst uses an intent-driven approach based on the TM Forum Open API 921 to autonomously translate vertical industry customer needs into business intent via AI – allowing zero-touch agreement of offer, price and SLA setup in response to input from the customer.
URN: C23.0.594
WebAssembly Canvas
This Catalyst will demonstrate an ‘ODA Canvas’ on wasmCloud to compose ODA components with lightweight, rapid processes – helping CSPs bridge the gap between mobile, transport and cloud technologies to accelerate 5G application delivery.
URN: C23.0.601
Talent for tomorrow – Phase II
This Catalyst is developing a low-code training platform, with a highly customizable UI and CI/CD pipeline, to intelligently spot talent and upskill staff by matching them to relevant interactive training modules.
URN: C23.0.597