6G LAB

Traditional network management is parameter-based. You decide the outcome you want, work out which parameters produce it, and set them. The network does exactly what you said, including when what you said was wrong.

Intent-based management inverts this. You declare the outcome — keep video stalling below a threshold in this stadium during events, or hold uplink latency under a limit for this enterprise slice — and the management system determines and continuously adjusts the parameters to achieve it, reporting whether the intent is being met.

The skill this demands is different. Writing a good intent means knowing what actually matters to the service, and being able to verify the claim that it is being met. Both of those need engineers who understand the radio, not fewer of them.