SReXperts EMEA

Embark on a captivating journey through the historic streets of Palma de Mallorca with our expert-guided tour. As you wander through the enchanting labyrinth of narrow cobblestone alleys and grand boulevards, our knowledgeable guide will unveil the rich tapestry of Palma's storied past and vibrant present. The tour will commence in Plaza de España. From this central hub of the Balearic capital, the group will embark on a journey that will allow them to discover the history, culture, and monumental richness of the city.
 

Nokia’s Network Operating Systems, SR OS and SR Linux, lead the way in model-driven management and automation, but have you been using them to their full potential? This knowledge primer will expose engineers of all experience to programmability and automation of the Network Operating Systems using model-driven interfaces, on and off-box interfaces and associated tools and programming languages.

This session is designed to prepare participants for the afternoon hands-on session.

Nokia’s Network Services Platform (NSP) has been managing networks at the centre of the internet and critical infrastructure for years but there is more to it than red/green network management. This primer will focus on using the programmability and automation functions of the NSP to automate configuration, manage path control, provide event driven management and visualize streaming data.

This session is designed to prepare participants for the afternoon hands-on session.

Nokia’s Event-Driven Automation (EDA) is a modern infrastructure automation platform for the data-center that combines speed with reliability and simplicity. It makes network automation more trustworthy and easier to use, from small edge clouds to the largest AI fabrics. This knowledge primer will focus on the programmability and automation functions of EDA to provide configuration management, telemetry and observability.

This session is designed to prepare participants for the afternoon hands-on session.

This partner event agenda provides a strategic overview of Nokia’s Data Center Fabric (DCF) opportunity, highlighting why the market timing is right and why Nokia is positioned as a key partner for growth. Attendees will be introduced to the Europe DCF Partner Success initiative, gain access to practical sales and deployment toolkits, and explore cross-sell and upsell opportunities within Data Centre Networking and broader IP networking solutions. The session also focuses on how partners can maximize Nokia’s enablement resources to expand sales capabilities, enhance service delivery, and build a profitable long-term services practice around the Nokia portfolio. Overall, the event is designed to equip partners with the insights, tools, and strategies needed to drive revenue growth and strengthen their vendor partnership.

Develop practical service provisioning skills on the Nokia 7750 SR in this 3.5-hour, expert-guided, hands-on workshop from the Nokia Service Routing Certification (SRC) Program. Through a series of guided lab exercises, participants will configure transport tunnels and services at their own pace, with live support and best-practice guidance from a Nokia expert. Exercises include:

-Segment routing tunnels with traffic engineering constraints
-Segment routing tunnels with secondary paths
-Segment routing fast re-route
-Layer 2 EVPN services (VPWS, ELAN)
-Layer 3 EVPN services
-EVPN multi-homing

This workshop is intended for network engineers or professionals with an IP/MPLS background who want to apply their knowledge in a real-world environment.

Participants must bring a laptop to take part.

This first ever session brings together Defense and Public Safety IP experts to exchange ideas, share real-world experiences, and explore the latest advancements in Nokia technologies.

The agenda features an overview of current Defense and Public Safety deployments, insights into key innovation trends—such as Carrier Software Defined Networking—and dedicated time for customer experience sharing.

This is a unique opportunity to engage with the security community, gain fresh perspectives, and collaborate on addressing the evolving challenges of Defense and Public Safety communications.

Join us for lunch in the exhibition—take a break, explore the demos, and recharge for an action-packed afternoon of sessions.
 

You and your ANSP peers come together to exchange ideas, share experiences, and explore the latest advancements in Nokia’s technologies.

Agenda will include topics such as:

• Adapting the network to multicast applications
• Leveraging the use of PCE for traffic engineering
• Using the new NSP functions to facilitate supervision
• ASNP experience sharing

Engage with the ANSP community and explore how we can work together to shape the future of airspace management.

Develop practical service provisioning skills on the Nokia 7750 SR in this 3.5-hour, expert-guided, hands-on workshop from the Nokia Service Routing Certification (SRC) Program. Through a series of guided lab exercises, participants will configure transport tunnels and services at their own pace, with live support and best-practice guidance from a Nokia expert. Exercises include:

-Segment routing tunnels with traffic engineering constraints
-Segment routing tunnels with secondary paths
-Segment routing fast re-route
-Layer 2 EVPN services (VPWS, ELAN)
-Layer 3 EVPN services
-EVPN multi-homing

This workshop is intended for network engineers or professionals with an IP/MPLS background who want to apply their knowledge in a real-world environment.

Participants must bring a laptop to take part.

Time is flying, and we are excited to announce that the next SReXperts REN Community group event is just around the corner!

Following the great success of last year’s session—where our community had the pleasure of hosting inspiring speakers from GEANT, NOMIOS, and NOKIA—we explored the fascinating journey of GEANT’s network IP modernisation project.  From real-world insights to deep dives into the technologies shaping the future of IP and secure optical networks, as second session, it delivered valuable knowledge and engaging discussions.  Your feedback made one thing clear: these real-life experiences and practical insights truly matter.  That’s why this year, we’re taking it a step further.

Join our REN Community session as we shift the spotlight entirely onto real stories from the field—successful projects, key learnings, challenges faced, and lessons learned (both good and bad). Expect authentic experiences, practical takeaways, and thought-provoking discussions led by highly experienced and knowledgeable colleagues.

Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, learn, and get inspired by what’s happening across the REN community.  Stay tuned—the detailed agenda will be shared soon!  We look forward to seeing you there.

The Power Utility Workshop is intended for power utility organizations and partners that works with the utilities to develop modern mission critical networks to support OT functions across the grid.  During this half-day workshop we will discuss an array of topics from customer network implementations, insights on the latest trends from power industry players and a deeper dive into the latest products from Nokia and their relevance to the utility network as well as an opportunity to discuss with Nokia IP experts.

Having completed the mornings primer session and with your trusty laptop in hand, you’re ready to leap into the SReXperts Hackathon. No matter your experience level, no matter your interest area, no matter whether you want a structured activity to follow or have your own project in mind the Hackathon is for you.

The most active DDoS botnets today are built from millions of compromised Android TV boxes, consumer devices, and other IoT equipment — with a growing number of these devices located inside your networks or your customers' networks. This army of devices forms a shadow infrastructure that remains largely invisible to conventional scanning and monitoring.

In this session, we lift the hood on how attackers gain control over these devices, how they manage and coordinate them at scale, and how they are used not only for massive DDoS attacks, but also for other malicious activities.

We will then walk through how Deepfield researchers infiltrate and analyze botnet families, to uncover how they operate and how this intelligence is used in Secure Genome and the Deepfield solution to help you protect your network from attacks and to neutralize infected bots within your access networks.

This workshop is intended for Network Engineers, Security Engineers, and anybody interested to learn how botnets work and are used for launching DDoS attacks or other activities, and what you can do about it.

This is an interactive session. Bring your questions. Bring your war stories.

You and your railway peers come together to exchange ideas, share experiences, and explore the latest advancements in Nokia’s technologies.

Agenda will include topics such as:

• Prepare networks for synchronization in the context of FRMCS
• Traffic engineering applied to railway use cases
• Did you know that NSP had some embedded properties really applicable to railways
• Railway experience sharing

Engage with the railway community and explore how we can work together to shape the future of railway communications.

After a full day of hackathons, masterclasses and user groups, we invite you to join us for our welcome reception in the exhibition.  Explore the many demonstrations prepared for you, forge connections and embrace the spirit of the SReXperts community.  Join us for an evening filled with great conversations, delicious food, and opportunities to connect with fellow professionals.
 

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Join us for a fresh perspective on where it makes sense to bring IP and optical layers closer together—and where it doesn’t. We’ll approach the topic from two angles.

First, we’ll examine the broader market context, exploring how technologies like 400ZR+, 800ZR+, and cross-domain automation are beginning to influence architectural choices in practice—not just in theory. Next, we’ll dive into a real deployment, analyzing specific use cases, design trade-offs, and operational lessons learned from integrating coherent optics directly into the IP layer.

We’ll cut through the noise to focus on what’s working today—where convergence delivers clear value and where traditional layering remains the better choice.

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Connectivity providers face rising network costs and shrinking margins. AI is essential to optimize infrastructure, unlock new revenue, and stay competitive in a fast-moving market. Every AI strategy depends on good data, rich context, and tools to act on both with determinism and transparency.

Learn how Deepfield enables this shift with scalable network traffic analysis enriched by Genome Intelligence, adding context to every byte in the delivery chain—interfaces, peers, CDNs, subscribers, and more—correlated with security and internet intelligence, including DDoS, Botnets, Internet outages, and more.

See how ""Ask Deepfield"" transforms this data into a natural-language experience, eliminating dashboards and delivering actionable answers. The Deepfield Model Context Protocol (MCP) server ensures any AI agent you build can access the same intelligence, workflows, and data—without lock-in. Discover how Deepfield turns traffic data into decisions that redefine network operations.

Join us for an update on Nokia data center switching. Learn about the latest SR Linux feature updates and new high-performance, reliable hardware platforms.

Discover practical insights and lessons we’ve learned at Nokia from implementing liquid cooling in our labs. We’ll discuss the associated costs, potential concerns, and the benefits of liquid cooling for both legacy infrastructure and next-generation systems, including those designed with integrated manifolds and cold plates. Explore how liquid cooling can optimize efficiency across diverse networks, topologies, and use cases—not just data centers.

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Gain insights into AIOps for IP transport, including:

• Advancements in automation
• IP/Optical integration
• Multi-vendor support to boost operational efficiency

Discover the latest advancements in the Network Services Platform (NSP). Learn how it is evolving with:

• A transition to a cloud-native architecture
• An improved user interface
• New capabilities for infrastructure and service fulfillment, assurance, analytics, control, and optimization

Explore the new features planned for upcoming NSP releases and the strategic investments shaping the roadmap for 2026 and beyond.

Discover how Nokia Network Services Platform (NSP) Path Computation Element (PCE) enables centralized network optimization. This session will cover:

• Real-time telemetry for dynamic insights
• Multi-domain topology for comprehensive network visibility
• Advanced traffic engineering techniques

Learn how centralized path computation:

• Improves SLA adherence
• Avoids congestion
• Balances load distribution
• Maximizes network utilization

All these capabilities are powered by the network visibility provided by NSP, ensuring efficient and reliable traffic engineering across complex networks.

Designing an IP/MPLS network from scratch offers a unique opportunity to get the fundamentals right. In this session, we explore the key requirements and best practices for building an ideal IP/MPLS network in a greenfield environment.

This session will cover:

• network architecture
• redundancy models for high availability
• underlay and overlay design choices for optimal performance
• the role of security and automation

Join us to learn how to engineer a network that is not only robust and scalable but also efficient and future ready.

Seamless connectivity across multi‑area WANs and between WAN and data center fabrics has long been a key objective, traditionally addressed through complex MPLS‑based architectures. Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6) offers a simpler and more scalable alternative to seamless MPLS. Join us to learn how SRv6 enables true end‑to‑end seamless connectivity across WAN domains and into the data center, improving scalability, consistency, and operational efficiency.

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Join us for a fresh perspective on where it makes sense to bring IP and optical layers closer together—and where it doesn’t. We’ll approach the topic from two angles.

First, we’ll examine the broader market context, exploring how technologies like 400ZR+, 800ZR+, and cross-domain automation are beginning to influence architectural choices in practice—not just in theory. Next, we’ll dive into a real deployment, analyzing specific use cases, design trade-offs, and operational lessons learned from integrating coherent optics directly into the IP layer.

We’ll cut through the noise to focus on what’s working today—where convergence delivers clear value and where traditional layering remains the better choice.

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Connectivity providers face rising network costs and shrinking margins. AI is essential to optimize infrastructure, unlock new revenue, and stay competitive in a fast-moving market. Every AI strategy depends on good data, rich context, and tools to act on both with determinism and transparency.

Learn how Deepfield enables this shift with scalable network traffic analysis enriched by Genome Intelligence, adding context to every byte in the delivery chain—interfaces, peers, CDNs, subscribers, and more—correlated with security and internet intelligence, including DDoS, Botnets, Internet outages, and more.

See how ""Ask Deepfield"" transforms this data into a natural-language experience, eliminating dashboards and delivering actionable answers. The Deepfield Model Context Protocol (MCP) server ensures any AI agent you build can access the same intelligence, workflows, and data—without lock-in. Discover how Deepfield turns traffic data into decisions that redefine network operations.

Join us for an update on Nokia data center switching. Learn about the latest SR Linux feature updates and new high-performance, reliable hardware platforms.

Discover practical insights and lessons we’ve learned at Nokia from implementing liquid cooling in our labs. We’ll discuss the associated costs, potential concerns, and the benefits of liquid cooling for both legacy infrastructure and next-generation systems, including those designed with integrated manifolds and cold plates. Explore how liquid cooling can optimize efficiency across diverse networks, topologies, and use cases—not just data centers.

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Join us for a drink with a view on the 3rd floor rooftop terrace of the Convention Centre before we head out for what promisses to be an unforgetable evening.
 

20 minutes by coach from the convention centre lies Pueblo Español – a unique place where history, art and a modern attitude to life come together. There are more than 72 buildings, surrounded by a large city wall, with reduced in scale replicas of magnificent architectural motives from all parts of Spain, giving the impression of a mediaeval town.  Stroll through charming alleyways, discover impressive works of art, enjoy delicious food and experience an unforgettable event with your peers.

Join us for an evening that promises to be full of camaraderie, laughter, and memorable moments.

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Join us for lunch in the exhibition—take a break, explore the demos, and recharge for an action-packed afternoon of sessions.
 

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Learn how cutting-edge Low Latency, Low Loss, Scalable (L4S) techniques address latency and packet loss—key bottlenecks for modern user experiences. Explore how L4S combines application-layer rate adaptation with continuous network-side ECN-marking to signal congestion, reducing queuing delays to near-zero levels.

Discover how L4S delivers consistent low-latency and low-loss performance while ensuring fairness to non-L4S traffic. This IP-based, technology-agnostic solution is incrementally deployable, making it accessible for end-to-end support across any type of network. Gain insights into L4S principles, deployment strategies, ecosystem adoption, and experimental results showcasing significant latency reductions in live networks.

xplore how the Nokia Multi Access Gateway (MAG) is revolutionizing broadband architecture with the implementation of Low Latency, Low Loss, Scalable (L4S) throughput. Learn how MAG delivers near-zero latency for real-time applications like cloud gaming, VR, and automation, while enabling service differentiation for customers.

Discover how L4S can be applied in subscriber management to overcome the traditional trade-off between high throughput and low latency, ensuring an optimal experience for end-users.

We are honored to feature guest speakers Ross Chandler from Eir and Corné Wessels from Fibertime, who will share their real-world experiences and insights into deploying Nokia MAG in their networks.

Explore how to implement redundancy in BNG deployments effectively, whether in traditional or CUPS environments. You will learn about different redundancy strategies, methods for detecting connection interruptions in the access network, and approaches to managing IP pools. Gain insights into practical solutions that address common challenges in ensuring uninterrupted service and network reliability.

Discover how SRv6 can simplify network design while addressing the challenges posed by essential edge functions like security gateways, CGNAT, firewalls, PE, data center gateway, and ABR. You will explore whether traditional IPv4-era designs should be preserved or reimagined to align with SRv6’s promise of end-to-end simplicity. Learn how redistributing or reducing edge functions can relax architectural constraints and streamline topology to prepare the network for potential automation efficiencies. This session provides actionable insights into preparing your network for the next stage of SRv6 evolution.

Explore Nokia’s contributions to open-source SONiC development, including hardware support, software support models, deployment use cases, and customer adoption. As a premier member of the SONiC Foundation and a top-five contributor since 2019, Nokia has played a pivotal role in advancing SONiC as an open-source network operating system (NOS) based on Linux. Whether you are committed to or evaluating the open-source NOS approach, Nokia’s Community SONiC solution offers unparalleled choice and flexibility.

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