Air navigation service providers (ANSPs)

Meet the communication and security demands of digital air traffic management (ATM) infrastructure and emerging innovations with a zero-trust quantum-safe Nokia ground-to-ground network.

Designed for air navigation service providers (ANSPs), our proven ground-to-ground solution makes it easy to use modern technologies such as trajectory-based operations (TBO), video analytics, cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) to ensure a safe, efficient, resilient and sustainable future for air travel.

Our solution also offers zero-trust quantum-safe networking that lets you pursue your digital ATM ambitions without worrying about cyberattacks. It uses proven encryption methods to protect your mission-critical network and operations from emerging quantum threats.

Air traffic is on the rise again after a long period of disruption. The EU and FAA both reported that air traffic exceeded pre-pandemic levels in 2025.

As the skies become busier, ANSPs are turning to digital ATM applications to address critical safety, security, efficiency, sustainability and airspace capacity challenges. 

Common modernization strategies include:

• Upgrading communication, navigation and surveillance (CNS) applications.
• Deploying controller–pilot data link communications (CPDLC) applications.
• Enhancing radar surveillance with Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast (ADS-B) and multilateration (MLAT) technologies.

Embracing these strategies will put pressure on your network. To digitalize your ATM operations, you need a new approach to ground-to-ground communications.

Our solutions help you evolve ground-to-ground communications for digital ATM by enhancing your mission-critical IP/MPLS wide area network (WAN) with new capabilities such as segment routing, operational technology (OT) cloud networking, networking for AI workloads and zero-trust quantum-safe networking. These capabilities will enable you to:

• Address the communication requirements of new digital ATM infrastructure and emerging digital innovations.
• Connect departure and destination control towers, en-route traffic control centers (TCCs), weather stations, and radio and satellite ground systems.
• Counter more complex cyber threats, including those powered by quantum computers.

• Realize your digitalization ambitions with a robust, reliable, high-performance communication network that connects all ATM infrastructure.
• Meet the diverse communication needs of a modern ATM system with a multiservice WAN that efficiently supports legacy and new applications.
• Take full advantage of AI with robust OT cloud and data center networks designed for data- and compute-intensive AI training and inference workloads.
• Protect your critical communications from emerging cyber threats by implementing zero-trust security and quantum-safe networking.