Event-Driven Automation (EDA)
Automate your data center network and eliminate human error
What is Event-Driven Automation?
Nokia’s Event-Driven Automation is a cloud-native platform built to manage multi-vendor networks with confidence. It turns complex network changes into safe, automated actions — so you can move faster without the fear of downtime.
Integrated AIOps
EDA’s integrated GenAI and agentic AI capabilities take data center network operations beyond conversation, into sensing, thinking, and acting.
EDA’s intelligent assistant doesn’t just understand what you ask; it understands your network. Powered by Nokia’s AIOps engine, it correlates telemetry, topology, and change data in real time to explain what’s happening and what to do next.
Operators can ask EDA questions like:
- “What just changed on leaf-12?”
- “Why is Router A unreachable?”
- “Can you verify if it’s safe to deploy this new VLAN?”
Behind every answer is a reasoning chain that gathers evidence, runs checks in the digital twin, and proposes a verified action plan, all in plain language.
EDA’s agentic workflows extend beyond chat: they orchestrate real diagnostic tasks, execute safe remediations, and document every decision for full transparency.
Features and benefits
Reliable
Reliability in operations is achieved by making the configurations predictable and the process orderly and controlled.
- Intent-based networking
- Network-Wide Transactions
- Revision Control
- Pre/Post Checks
- Rollbacks
- Digital Twin
- CI/CD pipeline
- State-aware
- Event-Driven
Simple
Simplification in operations is achieved by abstracting the complexity of multivendor and making the platform easy to use.
- Declarative intent
- AI assistance
- App store consumption model
- Customizable UI
- K8s API
- Light footprint
- SaaS option
Adaptable
Agility is achieved through customization and integration with a rich ecosystem of tools and clouds.
- Built on Kubernetes
- Customizable applications
- Seamless integrations
- Multivendor
- Multidomain
- Multicloud extensions
Industry recognition
Fierce Network award
Nokia EDA makes data center network automation more reliable and easier to use, from small edge clouds to the largest AI fabrics.
Network X Award
Nokia wins Network X Award for Leading Data Centre Networks Solution, spotlighting its cutting-edge automation platform and innovation.
Nokia Validated Design (NVD)
Validated for production, built for automation, open for collaboration
Resources
Watch our EDA videos
From Design to Ops: Nokia Event-Driven Automation Platform Automates Data Center Networking
Query Your Whole Network with Nokia EDA Query Language (EQL)
What is Nokia’s EDA platform?
What pressures do AI workloads place on the data center network?
Brochures and briefs
Code repositories
Communities
Datasheets
IDC Technology Spotlight
Explore the critical need for for coupling detailed intelligence, actionable insights and targeted automation to ensure data center networks remain resilient, dynamic and responsive.
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