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5Binary Classification · Outage Risk

Service Outage Prediction

Which areas will experience service degradation?

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A real-world example

Which areas will experience service degradation?

Network outages cost carriers $5,600 per minute in lost revenue, plus SLA penalties and churn acceleration. A carrier experiencing 200 outage events per year (average 45 minutes each) loses $30M directly and $90M in downstream churn. NOC teams react to alarms after degradation has begun. The predictive signal is in the convergence of equipment age, weather patterns, traffic load, and cascading failure histories across the network topology.

How KumoRFM solves this

Graph-learned network intelligence across your entire subscriber base

Kumo builds a network topology graph connecting towers, equipment, weather zones, and ticket history. It learns that when a specific equipment model at towers in a weather-exposed region shows 15% traffic increase above baseline during approaching storms, degradation follows within 4 hours. The graph propagates risk: when one tower in a cluster fails, adjacent towers absorb traffic and their own failure probability spikes. Traditional threshold-based monitoring cannot model these cascading dependencies.

From data to predictions

See the full pipeline in action

Connect your tables, write a PQL query, and get predictions with built-in explainability — all in minutes, not months.

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Your data

The relational tables Kumo learns from

TOWERS

tower_idregionequipment_modelinstall_yearlast_maintenance
TWR401NortheastEricsson 670120192024-11-15
TWR402NortheastNokia AirScale20222025-01-20
TWR403MidwestEricsson 670120182024-08-10

EQUIPMENT

equip_idtower_idcomponentage_monthsfailure_history
EQ01TWR401Power amplifier622 failures
EQ02TWR402Antenna array280 failures
EQ03TWR403Power amplifier744 failures

WEATHER

weather_idregiondateconditionwind_mphtemp_f
W01Northeast2025-03-05Ice storm3528
W02Midwest2025-03-05Clear842

TICKETS

ticket_idtower_idtypecreated_dateseverity
TK01TWR401Performance alarm2025-03-01P2
TK02TWR403Hardware alarm2025-02-28P3

TRAFFIC

traffic_idtower_idtimestampload_pctdropped_sessions
TF01TWR4012025-03-04 18:0082%12
TF02TWR4022025-03-04 18:0055%0
TF03TWR4032025-03-04 18:0068%3
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Write your PQL query

Describe what to predict in 2–3 lines — Kumo handles the rest

PQL
PREDICT BOOL(TOWERS.OUTAGE_EVENT, 0, 24, hours)
FOR EACH TOWERS.TOWER_ID
WHERE TRAFFIC.LOAD_PCT > 40
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Prediction output

Every entity gets a score, updated continuously

TOWER_IDREGIONCURRENT_LOADOUTAGE_PROB_24H
TWR401Northeast82%0.78
TWR402Northeast55%0.22
TWR403Midwest68%0.31
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Understand why

Every prediction includes feature attributions — no black boxes

Tower TWR401 -- Northeast, Ericsson 6701

Predicted: 78% outage probability in next 24 hours

Top contributing features

Approaching ice storm severity

35 mph wind, 28F

29% attribution

Equipment age and failure history

62mo, 2 prior failures

24% attribution

Current load vs baseline

+22% above normal

19% attribution

Adjacent tower status

1 of 3 neighbors degraded

16% attribution

Recent performance alarm

P2 ticket 4 days ago

12% attribution

Feature attributions are computed automatically for every prediction. No separate tooling required. Learn more about Kumo explainability

Bottom line: A carrier with 50,000 towers that predicts outages 24 hours before they occur prevents 60% of unplanned downtime, saving $30M in direct costs and $90M in churn-driven revenue loss. Kumo models cascading failure risk across the network topology, combining weather, equipment age, and traffic patterns that threshold monitoring cannot anticipate.

Topics covered

service outage predictionnetwork outage AItelecom service degradationproactive network maintenanceoutage prevention MLgraph neural network networkKumoRFM outage predictionNOC automation AInetwork reliability prediction

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Turn structured relational data into predictions in seconds. KumoRFM delivers zero-shot predictions that rival months of traditional data science. No training, feature engineering, or infrastructure required. Just connect your data and start predicting.

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