Telecommunications Case Study

Using Tupl to Increase Power Saving Gains from PSFs

The client

A Tier-1 telecom operator in Europe aiming to maximize energy efficiency across its RAN infrastructure by internalizing power-saving operations and scaling them intelligently across a multi-vendor network—without compromising network quality or customer experience.

Power Saving Gains from PSFs

The challenge

Over a period of 3 years this leading network performance operator had optimized their RAN Vendor’s Power Savings Features (PSFs) across their network, achieving approximately 4% energy savings. However, they had reached the limits of what could be achieved using conventional methods — namely, applying uniform settings across entire clusters or regions.

Key limitation of the traditional approach included:

Lack of granularity
The operator lacked scalable approach to provide recommendations on cell level as this would have been extremely labor intensive.
Network quality vs. energy savings trade-off
Given the high priority on network performance and end user experience, the operator was forced to apply conservative optimization strategy nationwide.

Energy & Cost Optimization operates as an autonomous AI-driven zero-touch system, with the flexibility to switch to an open-loop supervised mode when needed.

  • Automated, scalable operations across diverse network environments
  • Business logic control to balance energy savings with quality of service
  • Real-time management dashboards powered by explainable AI, ensuring full visibility, operational oversight and control over autonomous decisions
Results
Significant Results Delivered Quickly
Within 3 weeks Tupl achieved ~11% savings, a ~7 p.p. increase on what had been achieved after 3 years of optimizing the PSFs.
Securing End User Experience
By iterative optimization of the most important controlling parameters cell-by-cell Tupl managed to define new optimum operating point for the network, securing network quality and end user experience while maximizing the energy savings.
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