Take your broadband network into the cloud

Over the years, broadband networks have become multi-technology, multi-vendor, multi-headache environments. This increasing complexity has slowed operations and increased costs, with an unavoidable effect on the service you provide customers.
 
The move to SDN and cloud is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to solve these headaches, boosting competitiveness with new levels of operational efficiency and agility. With software-defined access networks, you can:

• Streamline operations
• Bring new features and services to market faster 
• Enhance your competitiveness 
• Virtualize where it matters

But while the benefits are revolutionary, your path toward a software-defined access network (SDAN) can be evolutionary. Nokia enables you to smoothly automate and evolve, preserving the value of your existing network while incrementally adding new value. There’s never been a better time to take your broadband network into the cloud.

You need to find ways to simplify your network, operations support systems and processes, so that you can gain operational efficiency, improve agility and keep costs in check. Nokia’s answer to this challenge is the software-defined access network (SDAN), which helps eliminate the operational barriers between IT and access.

Automation helps deal with increased options, technologies, parameters, and dimensions now needed to optimize a broadband network. As networks get redefined by software, Nokia is also uniquely positioned to help you pursue the goal of fully autonomous data-driven networks.

White paper: Automation and AI/ML in Fixed Networks

SDAN has introduced a powerful and versatile way to create open access networks. Take a fresh look at your operating models and partition the access network into virtual network slices, commercialized through flexible network-as-a-service (NaaS) consumption models.

Fixed access network slicing