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Optical networks help utilities modernize their operations with confidence
Discover how optical networks can transform grid communications and help power utilities solve four of their biggest challenges.
Extend optical networking to the metro edge with optimized scale and efficiency
Learn how to extend and optimize your optical network to meet growing speed and capacity demands at the metro edge.
Where, oh where, can my faults be? Using automation to reduce your MTTR
Learn how Nokia WaveSuite can help you use network automation to detect, locate and troubleshoot disruptions on optical fibers.
How an operator uses optical automation to fuel growth
Find out how Nokia WaveSuite Service Enablement uses automation to make it easier to sell optical network services.
How to reduce OPEX and CAPEX by up to 81% with optical network automation
Discover new research that explains how automation helps optical network operators unlock significant cost savings.
Level up your line systems without downtime
The modular Nokia C+L optical line system adds L-band capacity link by link and node by node or across an entire region or network.
ASE Noise Loading for Terrestrial WDM Applications
Learn how ASE noise loading is used on subsea and terrestrial WDM networks
How more is less - enabling greater scale and lower TCO
With our PSE-6s, more scale and performance bring significant benefits in enabling less cost and power.
Beyond faster speeds and more waves - getting the most out of fibers
How can optical fibers increase network capacity?
Enabling business and wholesale services with packet and OTN slicing
Generate new revenue by using OTN slicing to support customized services that use different transport network configurations.
How innovations in spectrum use enable continued growth in optical fiber capacity
Explore how to utilize more fiber spectrum for a continued optical fiber capacity growth. Read our blog for innovative spectrum use.
Innovation and engagement at CCW 2023
2023’s Helsinki Edition of CCW was a great success, with exciting new technology and rewarding engagement with our customers!
Meeting the demand for optical bandwidth over the next decade
Read our blog to explore possible technology innovations needed for optical fiber capacity to keep up with future demand growth.
The long wait for 50G PON: a view to realistic deployments
50G PON shows a lot of promise for the broadband industry. However, showing that a technology works and making an efficient solution are 2 different things.
Monetizing your optical network through network slicing and bandwidth-on-demand automation
Read our blog for the key to quickly deliver automated end-to-end services in your optical network.
A wholesale business model for your optical network
Adopting a wholesale business model lets you monetize the assets in your optical network.
Exploring new frontiers in optical networking
Nokia PSE-6s unleashes new frontiers in optical networking to meet the world’s growing need for connectivity.
Protecting Research and Education Networks from DDoS attack
The seriousness of DDoS attacks for REN’s requires stronger medicine than strong passwords, multi-factor authentication, and patching firewalls.
You can’t change the laws of physics, but can you negotiate with them?
Flexible scale with extreme simplicity: Nokia’s innovative, holistic approach to network solutions focusing on real customer needs.
Building automated closed-loop operations in your optical network
Building automated closed-loop operations is key to automating optical networks.
Key ingredients for automating optical networks
Topology discovery and export, and service provisioning are key ingredients for automating optical networks.
The essential elements of open optical networking
Learn how the right solution can help any network operator unlock new value with open optical networking.
Should you automate your optical network?
Automating your optical network: benefits, challenges and foundational automation elements.
What’s changed in subsea cable communications after 130 years?
Fiber optics advances in subsea cable and submarine line termination equipment (SLTE) design
Scaling IP-optical transport with Coherent Routing
Coherent Routing is a new approach for building application-optimized IP-optical networks using pluggable digital coherent optics.
COVID-19, the Metaverse: What’s next for telecom operators
How to build systems and networks for a sustainable, secure, and scalable Iinternet.
A welcome return to OFC
Join us at OFC for demos, forums, talks and more on how our optical solutions can help you meet new demands with simpler, more scalable networks.
Is your data safe from harvest and decrypt?
Quantum computers will have devastating implications for cryptography. Symmetric algorithms offer robust protection today.
Closing the gap to the Shannon Limit in real-world networks
Learn how Nokia PSE-V coherent optics optimize capacity–reach and ease network upgrades for challenging real-world applications.
Networks are life
Nokia NI is ready to rise to the challenge and prove ourselves the world’s most trusted systems partner for building the world’s most critical networks.
Realize your automation strategy through open collaboration
Operators are opening up optical networks to collaborate, innovate and create new paths to automation. Learn how our WaveHub ecosystem program can help you fast-track your…
Why OTN keeps trucking on
Optical transport technology has evolved, and OTN continues to play an important role in multiservice networks. Learn how!
Reduce optical service fulfillment times from weeks to minutes with network automation
Reliance on manual processes means that service providers can take weeks to deliver on optical connectivity service orders. Find out how Nokia Wavesuite uses automation to…
Breaking through network capacity limits
With modern fiber networks quickly approaching Shannon’s Limit, how can carriers cost effectively add capacity on regional and long-haul networks?
How to build better IP services with segment routing
Discover how segment routing is a powerful and proven technology for deploying scalable and programmable IP services.
Powering routers for 400GE and beyond
Pluggable coherent optics will play a key role in the 400GE era but they present significant power and heat dissipation challenges.
ROADMs for the 400G-era of IP-optical networking
Discover how combining ROADMs with pluggable digital coherent optics can help you optimize the cost and design of IP-optical networks.
Nokia Innovation in single-carrier and multi-carrier coherent optics
Learn about our innovative approach in single-carrier and multi-carrier coherent optics.
Silicon photonics: the platform for the 400G era and beyond
Learn how our silicon photonics technology enables 400G everywhere and makes next-generation optical networks a reality.
Nokia Network Infrastructure: the capillaries of connectivity
Nokia Network Infrastructure has an ambition: to go far and to travel fast. Find out how.
Optimizing open line systems to support 400G Anywhere
Find out how optical line systems can play a key role in helping you maximize price–performance for 400G.
400G and the Economic Shannon Limit: Good news for network operators
Learn how our silicon photonics technology enables 400G everywhere and makes next-generation optical networks a reality.