IP Anyhaul

Mobile transport for the AI supercycle

IP Anyhaul

Elevate your mobile transport network for the demands of artificial intelligence (AI) and digital technology with Nokia IP Anyhaul. This high-performance, resilient and quantum-safe solution lets you use AI-enhanced automation to transform your mobile radio access network (RAN) and realize the full potential of the AI supercycle.

Why is mobile transport changing?

Mobile RANs are profoundly evolving towards 5G-Advanced and 6G technology, driven by deeper use of disaggregation, virtualization and AI. At the same time, the growing use of open, cloud-native architectures promises to unlock new efficiencies and paths to monetization.

The world is now entering the AI supercycle, a period in which AI use will become ubiquitous. Versatile compute platforms such as central processing units ( CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs) and hybrid servers will be embedded deep into the RAN to enable a shift from centralized to distributed intelligence. These platforms will act as micro data centers in an AI grid, and require highly responsive and secure access and interconnection.

Mobile transport must support this new model by helping to determine where intelligence will exist. It must also keep providing deterministic latency, engineered reliability, inherent security and intrinsic availability.

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We can help you develop your mobile transport network

As the shift to AI-powered applications accelerates and intelligence is more deeply woven into every service, the need for secure, efficient and confidently connected mobile experiences has never been greater. At the heart of this shift is the mobile transport network, the essential fabric that carries the data, decisions and distributed compute driving the AI supercycle.

We continue to strengthen our global leadership in mobile transport by advancing our IP Anyhaul solution, which provides a dynamic, scalable and resilient transport foundation for what comes next. With unwavering focus on performance, security, automation and synchronization, we can help you turn your mobile transport network into a future-ready, agile networking fabric that supports the AI supercycle and unleashes its full potential.

IP Anyhaul

Elevate your mobile transport for the AI supercycle

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Performance and capacity for the AI-driven paradigm shift

As the RAN evolves into distributed engines of intelligence, AI-driven services will redefine the way traffic moves, scales and interacts. Compute will be distributed at the edge, across the transport layer and deep in the radio network.

Uplink demand will accelerate faster than downlink for the first time, thanks to real-time model updates, sensor-rich applications and pervasive machine learning at the edge. AI workloads will weave a dense fabric of peer-to-peer communication that dissolves the traditional RAN-to-core traffic hierarchy.

Our IP router portfolio helps you address these demands by combining unmatched performance, scale and energy efficiency with product circularity. With our proven Ethernet VPN (EVPN) and segment routing solutions, you get the service framework and routing foundation you need for your mobile transport requirements.

By choosing our IP Anyhaul solution, you can support the AI supercycle with a dynamic, many-to-many ecosystem where data, insights and compute resources move freely and instantly.

A new standard for secure, intelligent connectivity

Our IP network security solutions empower your future with the highest levels of security and reliability. You can use them to provide stronger, smarter protection for in-flight data and the underlying IP network infrastructure. 

We help you enable quantum-safe networking with a defense-in-depth approach that combines MACsec, ANYsec and IPsec cryptography with quantum-safe key entropy, distribution, rotation and AES-256 network encryption. This approach lets you maintain trusted communications across network layers to meet your business and application requirements.

Our IP trusted systems approach protects the management and control planes by blocking unauthorized access, maintaining secure routing, and mitigating traffic-flood attacks. It uses advanced system integrity verification and encryption, including Trusted Computing Group (TCG)-compliant TPM 2.0 Keys for reinforced device identity and attestation. We back this approach with a secure product lifecycle and a fortified hardware and software supply chain

Elevated network operations

AI is transforming networks into catalysts for change. By applying machine learning to massive data streams, an AI-enabled network can spot patterns, detect anomalies and resolve issues before users notice them. This cuts costs and boosts reliability and performance.

Generative and agentic AI further simplify tools and automate tasks, letting teams of any skill level program and operate the network with speed and confidence, and respond instantly to shifting customer demands.

Our AI innovations ease your journey toward fully autonomous, intelligence-infused networks that generate rapid insights, make informed decisions and execute them in real time. They help you build a responsive, resilient infrastructure that consistently powers exceptional digital experiences, secures every layer, and scales across the access, transport and core domains.

Proven, resilient synchronization

Precise, synchronized timing is foundational for telecommunications, smart grids, industrial automation and financial markets. But disruptions, jamming and spoofing mean that the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) alone can’t guarantee resilient synchronization.

We extend synchronization across the packet transport network to provide a secondary timing source that improves visibility, simplifies operations, administration and maintenance (OAM) and Precision Time Protocol (PTP) management, and delivers the accuracy you need for next-generation services.

Our mobile transport solutions put you fully in command of the way synchronization is delivered throughout your network. They enable you to:

Receive GNSS signals using dedicated receivers or small form-factor pluggables (SFPs).
Distribute phase and time using PTP.
Provide redundant timing to routers, switches and access points.
Build layered protection that ensures continuity during GNSS disruptions.

The result is a synchronization architecture that provides the accuracy and resilience you need for today’s demands and tomorrow’s opportunities.

Accelerated deployment

Our IP network services offer a holistic suite of professional services that will help reduce your time to revenue and lifetime total cost of ownership for IP Anyhaul networks. With our expert support, you can get the most from your mobile transport investment.

Leading mobile transport into the next era of innovation

Nokia has been at the forefront of mobile transport from the earliest generations of radio to today’s transformative RAN architectures and now the AI supercycle. We have been deeply involved in every evolution—designing, deploying and refining technologies that deliver exceptional efficiency, performance and reliability.

Today, we have one of the world’s largest and fastest‑growing mobile transport footprints. Each deployment strengthens our expertise, informs our innovation, and shapes the class‑leading products and practices we deliver to customers around the globe.