Category: (2) TAM Application Type
Application Identifier: 7.1.5
Maturity Level: 4
‘Planning Design Automation’ is an additional, value-add application, which should also be part of Application Map, but is not present in Application Map r2. It provides automation for both Tactical and Strategic Planning.
Planning Design Automation provides significant support for Planning as follows
Such applications make use of market forecasts and utilization trends and can be used to optimise the network for capacity and resilience . It provides design automation and complex analysis for both Strategic and Tactical Planning.
Such systems do not deal with device detail, but the general capability provided by the resource, such as transport, data and physical plant. This also helps the analytical engines cope with the volume of data required to represent large networks.
Design Automation is often considered to be part of Strategic Planning, but this is an oversimplification. Strategic Planning does benefit from automation in order, for example, to determine the optimum topology of a green field national, where geography and population distribution need to be taken into account. However, it is entirely possible to operate Strategic Planning processes without Design Automation, as is true with Tactical Planning. In fact much of both planning areas have in the past been operated largely without support from Design Automation applications.. Design automation supports Tactical Planning with optimization functions, such as optimizing for capacity or resilience, automated traffic engineering and traffic load balancing in data networks and among server platforms.
This can be applied at different levels of detail and over different time frames. Some types of forecast are more relevant to Strategic and others more relevant to Tactical Planning. Both product volume forecasts and utilization trends are relevant to this automation function.
This was created from the Frameworx 16.0 Model