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.
- What you get with NSP
- What NSP can do for you and your network
- Multivendor management
- Network automation and programmability
- The quantitative benefits of IP network automation
- Operate your network with AI
- NSP user experience
- Trust the leaders
- Awards and recognition
- Related topics
- Resources
- Related solutions and products
- Learn more
What you get with NSP
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.
What NSP can do for you and your network
Equipment configuration
Quickly commission new network equipment
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
Accelerate the fulfillment of service requests
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
Ensure continuous adherence to SLAs
NSP provides supervision, reporting and prediction tools that help you quickly troubleshoot network problems, pinpoint root causes and proactively prevent issues.
Path computation
Make the best use of existing network assets
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. More info
IP-optical coordination
Boost operational efficiency and service velocity in networks
NSP provides unified network visualization, correlation and optimization across IP and optical layers to enable greater resiliency and enhanced operations.
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Network analytics
Build deeper network knowledge
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
Realize and assure transport network slices
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: Expand the bandwidth of an IP link using LAG
Learning and Certification
Register for our NSP training and learn how to automate and control your network
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.
Network automation and programmability
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
Building on-demand networks together
Solution
IP network automation
Solution summary
Intent-based configuration management with NSP
The quantitative benefits of IP network automation
Operate your network with AI
NSP lets you combine AI with network automation to ease the journey toward fully autonomous networks that can sense, think and act. Automation reduces the margin for manual errors by helping people and systems execute tasks with unprecedented speed and precision. AI takes this a step further by speeding up data processing and decision-making. It plays a dual role in network management and automation by enabling predictive and generative capabilities.
By tapping into the power of AI, NSP helps you simplify your network operations and predict and prevent downtime. This reduces your operating costs and improves overall network reliability.
White paper
AI operations for IP and datacenter networking
Video
Building AI-powered networks that sense, think, and act
NSP user experience
Network and service health - dashboard
Network topology - map view
Fault management - alarm distribution
Fault management - alarm impact
Path control - network info and statistics
IP/optical coordination – map view
Workflow execution visualization
Analytics - Data collection and analysis visualization
Trust the leaders
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.
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du cuts down time and cost on their automation journey with NSP
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BICS reduces cost and drive new revenue with Nokia’s NSP controller
Awards and recognition
MEF18 – Carrier Ethernet / IP Technology Solution award for Nokia insight-driven IP networking (Nokia NSP+Deepfield+FP-4)
2016 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)
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Resources
Application notes
- 400GE IP-optical coordination and automation
- 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
- 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 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 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 to upgrade County of Mendocino’s public safety data and communications network
- Singtel and Nokia trial 5G IP transport network slicing to offer enhance customer experience delivering end-to-end service performance
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