Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA)

Maximize your network's potential with Nokia cloud-native AAA solution

What is AAA?

Nokia AAA enables you to consolidate your authentication, authorization and accounting capabilities and harmonize quality of experience (QoE) across multiple access networks and technologies. This award-winning platform can help you streamline user and device management processes, drive down costs and reduce time to market for new services. Nokia AAA is fully cloud-native and available as a Cloud-Native Function (CNF), providing greater flexibility, scalability, and efficiency needed to modernize AAA deployments and operations.

How our 5g AAA delivers results

Built on 20 years of AAA expertise, our software-based platform delivers industry-leading performance, reliability and flexibility. It combines powerful PolicyFlow rules scripting technology with streamlined processing to enable you to support any AAA use case.

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Benefits of Nokia’s Authentication, Authorization and Accounting

Securely deploy a variety of 5G services using the 5G AUSF, or Authentication Server Function
Prepare your access network to handle more users, devices, services and traffic
Support new business models that involve complex resource sharing and roaming partnerships
Use one AAA platform to support multiple wireless and fixed access technologies, including 3G, 4G LTE, 5G, Wi-Fi, VoWifi, Femto, MuLTEfire, small cells, FTTx, DSL and GPON
Empower tailored service creation, supporting a wide range of various use cases and deployment scenarios, with Advanced PolicyFlow and flexible capabilities.
Boost performance and security by integrating multivendor legacy AAA deployments in a centralized cloud environment
Enable network element interoperability and easily accommodate different protocol implementations
Leverage cloud-native architecture to achieve greater scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency, with the ability to easily deploy and manage AAA services across multiple cloud environments, including public, private, and hybrid clouds.

Why choose Nokia’s Authentication, Authorization and Accounting?

Lowers TCO and scales up

Lowers total cost of ownership by supporting multiple networks and applications with the same AAA application
Scales easily to support any network size and traffic volume
Takes advantage of cloud-native architecture to provide greater flexibility, scalability, and cost-efficiency, enabling seamless deployment and management of AAA services in public, private, and hybrid cloud environments

Speed and simplification

Accelerates time to market by reducing the need for custom development to support new use cases
Simplifies integration with RADIUS and Diameter clients and HSS, HLR and web-services enabled applications

Customer experience

Improves the customer experience by reducing outages, overloads and service interruptions

Tools and support

A flexible and extensible policy management engine that lets you create custom AAA policies, support nonstandard authentication flows and address your unique business requirements
Support for local and geographical redundancy to enable high availability and improved resilience
Server monitoring and statistics tools, including extensive Syslog and SNMP capabilities

Deployment and administration

Strong support for RADIUS and Diameter protocols, TACAS+, all commonly used EAP variants, and many AAA-related IETF and 3GPP standards including 5G's HTTP/2
Flexible deployment across commercial off‑the‑shelf (COTS) hardware and cloud-native environments, with virtualized deployments supported including optional integration with Nokia CloudBand.
A centralized OAM application that makes it easier to provision administration and management functions

Troubleshooting and customisation options

An in-memory session data store that tracks all authenticated sessions and facilitates troubleshooting and problem resolution
Multiple network configuration options, including a standalone server and One-NDS integration that supports centralization of subscriber profiles
Combines a flexible architecture with PolicyFlow-based service customisation, allowing operators to adapt workflows, policies, and service behaviour to fit diverse and evolving requirements.
An architecture that supports multivendor deployments by enabling simple and fast customization to accommodate protocol implementation differences