One of the most critical roles played by network operations teams in an enterprise environment is ensuring minimal downtime and maintaining optimal performance. As networks become more complex, these large-scale, multivendor enterprise infrastructures become correspondingly more challenging to manage. Under constant pressures to maintain service availability, address performance issues, and improve troubleshooting efficiency, operations teams urgently need advanced solutions.
Route Optimization and Analysis (ROA) uses digital twin technology, combined with DVR Playback, in a revolutionary approach that enables network operations teams to quickly identify and resolve issues, optimize network performance, and reduce operational costs—empowering teams to stay ahead in a fast-paced environment.
A Tier 1 operator achieved remarkable results using Digital Twin with Route Optimization and DVR Playback—resolving tickets 10 times faster and reducing fault resolution times from 45 minutes to just 4 minutes.
Challenges to Operational Efficiency
Network operations teams face three significant hurdles in managing modern enterprise networks:
- Slow fault detection and resolution: Traditional tools often lack the ability to detect and resolve transient or intermittent network issues quickly. These issues, which may last only a few seconds, are challenging to pinpoint using traditional fault management tools, leading to delayed Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) and prolonged downtime.
- Lack of path-level visibility: Teams are often blind to routing changes and their cascading effects. Without access to replay or real-time route correlation, root causes go undiagnosed, especially in re-converged IP/MPLS networks.
- Fragmented monitoring systems: Managing networks across multiple vendors with various monitoring tools is inefficient. Network teams often struggle to correlate data and gain a comprehensive view of the network’s health, which slows down troubleshooting efforts.
Consequences of these challenges include:
- Revenue losses: Downtime, even if brief, can lead to significant revenue loss. According to recent research, the average cost of downtime has climbed as high as $9,000 per minute for large organizations.
- High operational costs: Factors such as manual intervention, lack of automation, and inefficient fault detection all increase operational costs. For many enterprises, operations teams are overwhelmed with reactive tasks, leaving little time for proactive management or innovation.
- Inefficient use of resources: Manual fault resolution and troubleshooting increase labor costs and divert resources from strategic tasks.
Route Optimization Analysis
Route Optimization Analysis (ROA) uses digital twin modeling to provide a virtual real-time replica of an enterprise’s entire network, which simulates both current and potential network states. Integrating DVR Playback into the digital twin environment enables network operations teams to review historical network events, understand the impact of past issues, and pinpoint the root cause of transient network problems, thereby speeding up fault detection and resolution. This approach is particularly powerful for customer-centric optimization, since it enables accurate prediction of flow-level QoS (delay, jitter, loss) using AI-powered simulations, empowering teams to proactively avoid SLA violations across complex multilayer networks.
Action Replays with Digital Twin & DVR Playback
The DVR Playback feature allows network operations teams to review “action replays” of network performance over a given time period. This makes it easier to examine past events, routing changes, or traffic issues that occurred, even if briefly. This replay feature is crucial when troubleshooting transient network issues that traditional tools often miss, including intermittent faults or issues that last only a few seconds or minutes.
For example, if an outage or performance degradation occurs for a few seconds, DVR Playback enables the team to trace back the fault, analyze what caused it, and understand its full impact. By correlating the data across multiple layers of the network, the operations staff can determine the root cause quickly and spend less time on manual troubleshooting.
A Real-World Example: US Tier 1 Enterprise Network Operations
A Tier 1 US enterprise managing over 40,000 devices across a multivendor network faced challenges in addressing intermittent network issues. Their existing systems could not analyze re-converged routing events or simulate impact across IP/MPLS layers, which led to persistent blind spots and reactive troubleshooting. Fault detection and issue resolution were often delayed, increasing network downtime and operational costs.
How ROA Delivered Results
ROA with Digital Twin transformed this operations team’s efficiency and effectiveness in terms of speeding troubleshooting and resolution, enhancing correlation and analysis, and automating operations. These benefits centered around several capabilities:
- Historical review of network changes and events using DVR Playback
- Per-flow delay, jitter, and loss predictions powered by AI simulations, enabling SLA assurance and forward-looking planning
- Enhanced troubleshooting precision and accuracy with Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
- Cross-layer correlation via Digital Twin’s unified visibility into multiple layers of the network
- Automated fault detection and resolution using the combination of AI-driven automation and DVR Playback
Faster Resolution, Less Downtime, Lower Costs*
After implementing ROA with Digital Twin and DVR Playback, the enterprise achieved the following results:
90% faster fault resolution: DVR Playback allowed the team to trace back network changes, review past events, and correlate these with real-time data to detect the cause of transient issues. This reduced Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and overall, the team cut fault resolution time by 90%, from 45 minutes to four minutes.
600+ weekly tickets related to service availability were resolved 10 times faster by combining real-time replay and route visualization. Moreover, QoS-driven optimization using AI reduced customer-impacting delays by predicting outcomes before rollout—transforming network planning into a predictive, rather than reactive, function.
40% less downtime: By identifying and resolving potential issues before they caused outages, the enterprise reduced network downtime from six hours per month to 3.6 hours per month, saving $480,000 annually through ticket deflection, planning speed, delay/jitter-aware network optimization, and reduced service interruptions.
30% lower operational costs: Automating fault detection and streamlining troubleshooting with DVR Playback and Digital Twin technology enabled the team to reduce manual labor, which cut operational costs by 30% and saved $3 million per year.
Proactive and predictive issue detection: By simulating network scenarios and integrating predictive analytics, ROA’s Digital Twin’s predictive capabilities help identify issues before they occur, enabling preventive action.
Improved Resource Allocation: By correlating historical data with real-time metrics, operations teams can optimize network resource allocation and utilize bandwidth efficiently.
600% ROI in Just One Year
By reducing downtime and automating high effort troubleshooting workflows, the organization realized:
- Over 70% of total value from revenue protection—by resolving issues faster and avoiding major outages tying back to revenue loss
- Roughly 30% of total value from OpEx savings—via automation, ticket reduction, and faster planning cycles
With ROA implementation costs representing a fraction of its total benefits, the enterprise saw a 6× return on investment in the first year alone—entirely from improved uptime, efficiency, and proactive planning.
A Strategic Advantage for Network Operations
ROA with Digital Twin and DVR Playback empowers network operations teams to work proactively, reduce downtime, increase visibility, and meet cost reduction goals, all without sacrificing network performance.
At Tier 1 scale, this breaks down into:
- Faster MTTR
- Lower operational overhead
- Improved SLA compliance
- A first-year ROI of over 600%
For any enterprise facing similar pressures, ROA is more than a tool—it is a strategic enabler for modern, efficient network operations.
Ensure Peak Network Performance & High Efficiency
For network operations teams managing complex, large-scale networks, ROA’s Digital Twin with DVR Playback is a game-changer. By providing a real-time, virtual network replica and the ability to review historical network events, this powerful tool empowers teams to detect and resolve issues faster, optimize network performance, and reduce operational costs.
Across Tier 1 operators, this translates not just to efficiency, but customer-centric excellence. By shifting from utilization-based routing to delay- and SLA-aware flow optimization, teams align network operations with end-user experience.
This technology is a critical asset for any network operations team looking to streamline workflow, improve efficiency, and ensure peak network performance.
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*All results have been reviewed and confirmed by the customer.
