Overview
Verizon’s Network Topology Visualizer (NTV) is an award-winning, AI-powered network visualization tool that delivers an industry-first end-to-end view of Verizon’s network. Designed to empower strategic decision-makers, NTV provides real-time insights into network topology and inventory, enabling enhanced planning, proactive management, and superior customer experience.
Leveraging Radiant Digital’s Generative AI-powered Low Code/No Code platform (Design-to-Code Accelerator), Verizon was able to rapidly design, develop, and deploy the tool with fully functional responsive code in under three weeks. This breakthrough earned Verizon IDG’s CIO 100 Award in 2024.
Challenge
Verizon needed a solution that could:
- Translate massive, complex network data into meaningful, actionable visualizations.
- Improve the efficiency of network planning and troubleshooting.
- Enhance collaboration between design and development teams.
- Provide real-time utilization insights and performance metrics to optimize resource allocation.
- Identify poor data quality regions to mitigate planning delays and service disruptions.
Solution
Radiant Digital designed and delivered a cutting-edge solution combining AI-powered automation, user-centric design, and advanced visualization capabilities:
- AI-Accelerated Development: Using Radiant’s Design-to-Code Accelerator, over 50 responsive screens were developed in record time, reducing manual effort and accelerating time-to-value.
- End-to-End Visualization: Delivered an intuitive interface for navigating from macro-level geographic overviews to individual network elements.
- Actionable Insights: Built dashboards with filtering, performance scores, and utilization metrics for data-driven resource planning.
- Proactive Monitoring: Integrated features to identify poor data quality across regions, markets, and sites, enabling proactive issue resolution.
- UX Optimization: Designed 132 unique screens, 10 user flows, and over 100 custom components aligned with the Untitled UI Design System, ensuring design consistency and scalability.
- Flexible Experience: Implemented light and dark modes through Figma variable management to enhance usability across different user preferences.
Technologies Used
- Generative AI-powered Low Code/No Code Platform (Design-to-Code Accelerator)
- Figma – UX/UI design (132 screens, 10 user flows, 380 variables)
- Untitled UI Design System – Extended with 100+ custom components
- CDS MUI Library – Standardized all category elements
- Light & Dark Modes – Implemented via Figma variables
Outcomes
- Enhanced Decision-Making: Enabled visualization of the end-to-end network from edge to core, improving strategic clarity.
- Accelerated Development: Delivered over 50 fully functional screens in under three weeks using AI-powered automation.
- Improved Efficiency: Reduced redundant tasks across design and development, streamlining workflows.
- Stronger Collaboration: Fostered alignment between design and development teams through componentized workflows.
- Proactive Network Management: Enabled early detection of performance and data quality issues, reducing delays and improving planning.
- Recognition: Verizon’s NTV was honored with IDG’s CIO 100 Award 2024.
Conclusion
Through the power of Generative AI, low-code automation, and user-focused design, Radiant Digital helped Verizon revolutionize its network visualization and management. The NTV not only elevated operational efficiency but also shifted Verizon’s approach from reactive troubleshooting to proactive network intelligence—driving strategic clarity, customer satisfaction, and award-winning innovation.
