5G is intensifying the rate of digital transformation for Communications Service Providers (CSPs) as they respond to challenges on multiple fronts. To deliver on their promises to their customers of digital transformation and 5G, CSPs must embrace extreme operations automation and look at every opportunity to reduce human intervention. Spirent has pioneered a new approach to enabling operational automation with automated assurance, called Lifecycle Service Assurance (LSA). LSA helps operators accelerate the service lifecycle, reduce costs, and enable differentiated quality that helps them to acquire and retain happy, loyal customers.