
Optical networks
Scale made simple
Our optical network products and solutions enable scaling without limits to enable the foundational connectivity for your networked communications.
We provide the solutions to scale from the network edge and across long-haul/core and subsea links, while simplifying network operations to let you build smarter, more automated networks that streamline service delivery and lower network TCO.
By enabling new services such as 5G and packet services, while enabling more efficient network architectures, we help stay competitive and turn your optical networks into platforms that create value for your business and your customers.

Optical Networking Portfolio Poster
Core optical transport
Our scalable optical platforms provide flexibility and performance to optimize your core networks, whether across a metro or across continents, and helps you minimize total cost of network ownership while maximizing revenue and return on investment.
Solution
Coherent Routing
Build application-optimized IP-optical networks using coherent optics
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Integrated Packet Transport (IPT)
Leveraging the feature-rich 1830 PSS and the power of SR-OS for fully managed end-to-end Layer 2 transport
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Open Optical Networking
Open and disaggregated platforms, open model-driven interfaces and open management and control
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Quantum-safe optical networking
Secure data from intrusion and theft though quantum-safe encryption, key management and intrusion detection
Product
1830 Optical Line Systems
ROADM and C+L solutions for reconfigurable and scalable WDM networks
Product
1830 Photonic Service Interconnect – Modular (PSI-M)
A disaggregated, compact modular platform that delivers scalability and flexibility to optical networking and DCI applications
Product
1830 Photonic Service Switch (PSS)
Scalable optimized end-to-end optical transport solutions for DCI, metro, regional and long-haul networks
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1830 PSS-x P-OTN Switching
Scalable and efficient P-OTN switching for multi-protocol wholesale services
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1830 Security Management Server (SMS)
How can you protect your layer 1 transport network from a quantum computer attack?
Access and metro transport
Our application-optimized access and metro transport solutions enable scale made simple out to the network edge, and provide scalable, flexible, efficient and reliable transport that helps you keep pace with new service and traffic demands.
Solution
Optical Anyhaul
Connect anything, anyone, anywhere with anyhaul mobile transport
Product
1830 Optical Network Extender (ONE)
Multi-service P-OTN, transport and ROADM optimized for metro and access
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1830 Photonic Service Demarcation (PSD)
Customer-located network demarcation and optical transport for Ethernet and wavelength services
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1830 Time-sensitive Packet Switch (TPS)
Carrier-grade Ethernet time-sensitive networking supporting real-time, ultra-low latency business, residential and mobile services
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1830 Versatile WDM Module (VWM) Portfolio
Complete passive C/DWDM solutions to cost-effectively scale network capacity
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WaveLite Enterprise Optical Networking
Bringing scale to the edge with cost-optimized ease-of-use for multi-tenant CPE and enterprise optical networks
Optical Engines
Nokia’s vertically integrated optical engines power our optical transport solutions across access, metro, long-haul and subsea applications. These include our family of Photonic Services Engines (PSE) that provide scalable, application-optimized coherent optics used across our optical transport systems, pluggable coherent transceivers for use in optical transport and IP platforms, and optical silicon photonics transmitter/receiver optics integrated in Nokia and 3rd party coherent modules.
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Optical sub-systems
How silicon photonics enable the next generation of coherent transceivers
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PSE-3 family
200G Compact and 600G Super-Coherent optics for metro and long-haul applications
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PSE-V family
The latest generation of coherent optics optimized for metro, long-haul and subsea applications
Subsea solutions
Enabling network scaling across oceans while enabling network simplification with integrated terrestrial and subsea networks, our subsea solutions provide the ultimate in optical transport performance over the most challenging links, with the ability to undertake turn-key planning and deployment of global-scale undersea cable networks.
Optical network automation, operations and control
Our network automation solutions help communication service providers (CSPs), webscale companies and enterprises grow revenues, accelerate service deployment, and build more programmable, responsive, efficient and reliable IP and optical networks.
Partners and services
Let us help you build scalable networks with ease through our professional services and rich eco-system of collaboration partners.