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AI technology holds the potential to augment your productivity and creativity. That’s what makes Nokia’s IP networks, built for AI and powered by AI, so essential with:

  • Unmatched scale, security and reliability to underpin AI’s ability to process vast amounts of data in real-time
  • AI tools, deployed in the IP network, to bring simplicity and automation to complex network management processes

Nokia’s high performance IP portfolio is a solid foundation from which to build your IP network for AI, secure your network to create a reliable and safe environment for your AI applications and users, and operate your IP network with AI to automate and scale operations and boost customer service delivery.

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AI: A force for IP network evolution

The ability to reliably and securely connect users and their data will determine the success of current and future AI applications. And IP networks are at the heart of this connectivity.

With the advent of AI, these IP networks face ever greater bandwidth challenges, along with stringent expectations around quality, security and reliability.

For example, AI training and model tuning will require that massive datasets be securely uploaded to and transported between private or public data centers.

AI inferencing, a highly dynamic and compute-intensive process, will require that large volumes of potentially sensitive data be exchanged in real-time with millions of connected users and devices. These AI inferencing workloads will be placed closer to the network edge, where users and data are located, to meet latency expectations and limit both security risks and bandwidth costs.

How AI traffic drives IP network architectures

AI workloads can exist anywhere in the network: on user devices, on enterprise premises, in private or public cloud datacenters near end users or further away in centralized locations. Deciding where to locate AI workloads will depend on a variety of considerations.  

  • Mission-critical AI applications for large enterprises, industries and verticals such as manufacturing, education, finance, healthcare, transport and government that process private and sensitive data should be hosted in the enterprise cloud, within the confines of a Local Area Network or a secure (Virtual) Private Network with quantum-safe data cryptography.
  • High-bandwidth, low latency applications such as AI vision or interactive multimodal content generation are best placed at the network edge. This will minimize data transport costs and exposure to network congestion or security risks (Denial of Service attacks, hacking or eavesdropping).
  • Other AI workloads can be hosted on bare metal servers equipped with GPUs in edge colocation datacenters (GPU-as-a-Service, AI-as-a-Service), or in the public cloud (e.g., Google cloud, Apple cloud, Microsoft Azure).

Time to market and flexibility are key in the AI era. Most AI applications are cloud-native and container-based to allow for a rapid and optimal deployment of AI workloads anywhere. IP networks built for AI must facilitate dynamic workloads by offering the network “as-a-Service”.

What do all these new requirements mean for the IP network? To serve billions of AI queries each day, a rock-solid, high-performance IP network is needed. And given the distributed nature of the AI edge, connections between an increasing number of locations will be necessary to support application needs.

Is your IP network fit to meet these challenges?

IP networks built for AI, powered by AI

Nokia is a global leader in IP network technology with a pedigree in designing high-performance routing platforms for the world’s most demanding operators and mission-critical applications.

We can help you:

  • Build an IP network that puts you on a solid footing to deliver the value of AI applications to all its users.
  • Secure your IP network to create a reliable and safe environment for AI applications and all its users.
  • Operate your IP network, leveraging AI to automate and scale operations and better serve your customers.

How to build an IP network for AI

Our IP portfolio delivers massive capacity with unmatched performance, security and efficiency. Powered by Nokia’s in-house developed, purpose-built routing silicon, it delivers deterministic performance for high bandwidth, low latency and mission-critical applications, with built-in security features for distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection and data encryption.

  • The Nokia 7250 IXR multi-access aggregation routers and 7730 SXR and 7750 SR service routers are ideal to support the connections between user devices, the distributed AI edge clouds and central data centers. Coherent pluggable routing optics support high-speed and cost-efficient uplinks to data centers and the cloud, and between data centers.
  • Nokia IP networking software is an open and extensible operating system to help you quickly and efficiently deploy and connect AI data centers and edge clouds. Comprehensive Ethernet VPN and segment routing capabilities let you slice and engineer network capacity for low, deterministic latency and minimal packet loss.
  • The Network Services Platform helps you dynamically maintain SLAs related to bandwidth and latency for the most demanding AI applications.

How to secure your IP network for AI

As millions of IoT devices and AI users connect with data centers over gigabit uplinks, the attack surface for hackers and malware grows – as does the risk of DDoS attacks.

Nokia Deepfield Defender lets you detect, analyze and mitigate DDoS attacks by combining the power of AI-driven big data technology with state-of-the-art Nokia FP routing silicon. The Deepfield anti-DDoS solution transforms your IP network into a shield against DDoS from compromised user devices and IoT botnets that are weaponizing AI technology to disrupt your services.

The Nokia Deepfield portfolio of AI-driven big data analytics and security applications provides holistic and multidimensional insights into how applications, services and content are delivered from the internet and consumed by subscribers. Additionally, Nokia Deepfield applications can be used to produce high-quality network- and consumption-related data for future AI telco applications.

Many AI applications rely on exchanging highly sensitive, valuable or private data that may be compromised by hacking, eavesdropping or man-in-the-middle attacks. Nokia Quantum-Safe Networking (QSN) adds quantum-safe network cryptography, in a layered defense-in-depth approach. This can safeguard the confidentiality, integrity and authenticity of data traversing the network, even as the quantum landscape evolves.

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How to operate your IP network with AI

As networks scale in size, complexity and dynamicity, network operations can benefit from AI – across the management of your network’s entire lifecycle.  

  • AI can augment the expertise of operations staff to accelerate service delivery to your customers. Generative AI (GenAI) can assist with streamlining processes and simplifying complex tasks such as network programming and troubleshooting.
  • AI can also augment the acuity of operations staff to ensure optimized network performance and continuous adherence to SLAs. Predictive AI uses traditional AI and machine learning to analyze vast amounts of real-time telemetry data collected from the network to accelerate troubleshooting and help predict and mitigate potential disruptions before they escalate, impact services and cause network downtime.

The Nokia Network Services Platform helps you transform your business for success today and into the future. By evolving and automating your network infrastructure and operational capabilities, you leverage the benefits of AI networking on your journey toward autonomous networks that can sense, think and act.

With Nokia IP networks, built for and powered by AI, you have the high-performance routing, security and AI-enhanced operations needed to confidently adopt AI and other technology innovations into your business. Unleash the power of AI to boost your productivity and creativity with Nokia IP networks.

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