Network Services Platform
Automate, manage and control IP and optical networks
Our Network Services Platform (NSP) helps you automate your IP, optical and microwave networks to simplify your operations, respond quickly to fast-changing demand, get the most from your resources and ensure maximum service performance and reliability.
NSP answers your need for more responsive, efficient and reliable networks with:
- A complete suite of ready-to-use functions that help your network operations and engineering teams cover all use cases for network management, control and optimization
- An open programmable platform that enables your network engineers and developers to build and adapt their own automation use cases and to define customized service, network and device operations.
- Why choose NSP for network automation?
- How NSP uses AI to transform network operations
- What NSP can do for you and your network
- How NSP streamlines multivendor management
- How to automate and program your network with NSP
- The quantitative benefits of IP network automation
- NSP user experience and theming
- Customer stories
- Awards and recognition
- Related topics
- Resources
- Related solutions and products
- Learn more
- Latest news
Why choose NSP for network automation?
Abstract ever-increasing network complexity and diversity
NSP is a comprehensive platform that makes it simpler to build multivendor networks that combine IP, MPLS, optical and microwave technologies across multiple domains. It uses intent-based networking to turn abstract service definitions into device-specific commands and leverages AI and machine learning (ML) to make life easier for your operations team.
Get the most from your people and network resources
NSP reduces your operating cost by enabling you to rely on one management and control platform that supports common tools and practices. By automating repetitive tasks and complex workflows, NSP eases the pressure on your skilled network operations staff and specialized networking tools. It also helps you make better use of your network capacity.
Keep up with fast-changing market demand
NSP aligns your network offering with your service requirements. Its flexible, modular and programmable approach helps you respond to customers’ needs and quickly adapt to changing demand patterns. It provides open interfaces that simplify integration into your existing environment to enable faster deployment and service rollouts.
Ensure a high quality of experience for every user and application
NSP is a carrier-class platform that enables you to deliver performance that meets requirements . It provides the tools you need to troubleshoot the network, fix issues quickly, move traffic and reconfigure the network before an incident actually occurs. NSP closes the loop to maintain network performance in real time in unexpected or evolving traffic and network conditions.
How NSP uses AI to transform network operations
NSP combines AI and network automation to help advance network connectivity in the AI supercycle and ease the journey toward fully autonomous networks. Network automation reduces manual effort and helps people and systems execute tasks with greater speed, consistency, and accuracy. AI extends these capabilities by accelerating data analysis and decision-making and plays a dual role in network management and automation through predictive and generative capabilities.
NSP’s agentic AI framework enables the deployment of AI agents grounded in trusted, real-time network data, allowing them to reason based on network context and take guided, explainable actions within operational guardrails. They can also interact with external agents and systems using communication protocols such as the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
NSP AI agents help you expedite your network operations, such as troubleshooting, to prevent downtime by identifying root causes faster, reducing operational noise, and resolving complex IP network issues with greater confidence. This lowers your operating costs and improves overall network reliability.
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Building AI-powered networks that sense, think, and act
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AI operations for IP and datacenter networking
What NSP can do for you and your network
Equipment configuration
Zero touch provisioning (ZTP) automates the on-boarding and initial configuration of network devices to speed up infrastructure deployment and reduce human errors.
Network service delivery
NSP utilizes the power of intent-based networking (IBN) to abstract the underlying network complexity and deploy services in minutes if not seconds.
Network assurance
NSP provides supervision, reporting and prediction tools that help you quickly troubleshoot network problems, pinpoint root causes and proactively prevent issues.
Path computation
NSP acts as an external SDN controller Path Computation Element (PCE) to ensure optimal multi-layer paths across multiple domains that meet SLAs relating to cost, latency, and bandwidth.
IP-optical coordination
NSP provides unified network visualization, correlation and optimization across IP and optical layers to enable greater resiliency and enhanced operations.
Network analytics
NSP provides detailed visualizations and reporting, AI-enabled baselining and anomaly detection to help you analyze and resolve network issues in real time.
Network slicing
NSP automates the creation, assurance and optimization of network slices in the transport domain.
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The life of the network automation engineer
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NSP Quick Tip: Add network element from a new supplier
Certification program
Register for our NSP training and learn how to automate and control your network
How NSP streamlines multivendor management
NSP provides an integrated and comprehensive solution that automates operations for fulfillment, optimization and assurance across multivendor networks. NSP simplifies and accelerates service rollout, troubleshooting and OSS integration by abstracting the detailed, and often complex, operational variations between individual vendors’ products.
NSP makes this possible using a model-driven management approach and by upgrading or onboarding network elements, whether from Nokia or third parties, at runtime, with support for backward and forward compatibility. This is achieved using its hot pluggable adaptors which support and mediate many standard and proprietary data models created with YANG and using programmatic interfaces based on protocols such as NETCONF, gRPC/gNMI and model-driven CLI. NSP can also connect through other domain controllers using proprietary or open interfaces such as T-API.
How to automate and program your network with NSP
NSP provides you with a superior toolset that lets you automate your IP, optical and microwave networks to make them more agile, reliable and secure. You can take advantage of our developer portal and user community to access documented APIs, code snippets, tutorials, generative AI capabilities and more.
We have also built a catalog of predefined use cases that will help you save time and reduce risk.
Developer portal
Network developer portal
Use cases
IP network automation use cases
Solution summary
Intent-based configuration management with NSP
The quantitative benefits of IP network automation
NSP user experience and theming
Network topology – map view
Network and service health - dashboard
Unhealthy network equipment - view
Path control – network info and statistics
IP/optical coordination – map view
Fault management – alarm distribution
Fault management – root cause
Workflow execution visualization
Customer stories: What network operators say about NSP
More than 1000 network operators globally deployed NSP to simplify their operations.
Leverage Nokia experience gained across the management and control of hundreds of modern networks from all around the world.
Partner release
Partner release
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IP network automation at du
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BICS reduces cost and drive new revenue with Nokia’s NSP controller
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Awards and recognition
UTC Impact Award – Software Award for Nokia NSP Utilities
Leading Lights – Most Innovative SDN Product Strategy award for Nokia NSP WAN SDN Controller
GlobalData – Reports Nokia NSP as “Leader” in Deployment Readiness and Solution Breadth in WAN SDN Controller: Competitive Assessment
ACG – Reports Nokia NSP as a Global Market Share Leader in SP Multilayer Software Defined Network (SDN)
Related topics
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Resources
Application notes
- Achieving efficient IP-optical network automation: Multilayer coordination with the Nokia NSP
- Multivendor IP network management with NSP
- Network automation and programmability: Using the Nokia NSP for intent-based networking (IBN)
- Path control and optimization in segment routed networks
- Programmability for network automation: Supporting modern workflows while evolving to an intent-based networking system and DevOps
Customer success story
- Bosch and Nokia set a new bar for 5G positioning and look ahead to 6G
- Bridged Broadband bridges digital divide with Nokia's IP and optical solutions
- BT Group, De-CIX and TELUS applaud Nokia for innovating next-generation 7730 SXR routers
- Dallas City modernizes LMR backhaul network using Nokia's IP/MPLS microwave network solution
- Etisalat by e& and Nokia upgrade IP Core Network to support 800 GE and implement transport slicing solution improving 5G experience
- Irish Aviation Authority’s (AirNav Ireland) air traffic control network selects Nokia's high-bandwidth IP/MPLS solution
- MPSCS deploys Nokia's IP/MPLS and packet microwave technology to enhance LMR backhaul infrastructure
- Nokia and Claro deploy Colombia’s largest 5G network
- Nokia and du conclude successful transport network slicing trial in UAE
- Nokia and e& UAE showcase world’s first fixed end-to-end network slicing solution for gaming applications
- Nokia and Openreach introduce intent-based networking to build an open-access network, accelerating UK Broadband / fixed access rollout
- Nokia and Skyguide modernize the network supporting Switzerland's air traffic control system
- Nokia chosen to expand Balitower’s IP network in Indonesia
- Nokia deploys fiber network in the heart of the Amazon rainforest with Global Fiber Peru
- Nokia partners with Ishan Technologies to transform broadband connectivity in Gujarat and Maharashtra
- Nokia to modernize Vietnam Air Traffic Management Corporation’s communication network for improved safety
- Nokia to upgrade County of Mendocino’s public safety data and communications network
- Orange Jordan selects Nokia to supply 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) equipment to provide enhanced connectivity and capacity
- Singtel and Nokia trial 5G IP transport network slicing to offer enhance customer experience delivering end-to-end service performance
- Vodafone Qatar selects Nokia in major network modernization deal to drive expanded 5G coverage, reliability and services
Datasheets
Nokia API
Solution area
Training - Certification Program
Training - Course
- Nokia NSP Advanced Workflow Design and Management
- Nokia NSP Analytics course
- Nokia NSP Enhanced Optimization course
- Nokia NSP Intent Design and Management course
- Nokia NSP Model Driven Management course
- Nokia NSP Multi-Layer Optimization
- Nokia NSP Network Planning
- Nokia NSP Packet Optimization
- Nokia NSP Programmable Network Automation course
- Nokia NSP Service Fulfillment Operations course
- Nokia NSP Telemetry hands-on course
- Nokia NSP Workflow Design and Management
- NSP Infrastructure Configuration Management Operations course
- NSP Infrastructure Configuration Management Planning
- NSP Infrastructure Configuration Management Planning
- NSP Network and Service Assurance
- NSP Service Fulfillment Design hands-on course
- NSP System Administration
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IP network automation channel
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