Express peering

Deliver top-notch internet content experiences

Nokia express peering enables you to automate peering engineering and secure your peering edge to deliver the content and quality of experience (QoE) your customers demand.

If you are a service provider, enterprise or webscale company that provides access to content on the internet, it’s a business imperative for you to deliver a top-notch QoE. This means:

Ensuring that massive volumes of volatile traffic flows with varying requirements are all delivered with consistently high performance
Preventing cyberattacks that could exhaust your network resources and degrade the user experience

With our express peering solution, you can solve the challenges of engineering and securing traffic exchanges over transit, public and private peering networks.

Automate traffic engineering at peering points

Handle rapidly changing traffic patterns more effectively

Simplify operations

Reduce the need for costly networking tools and avoid complex manual configuration

Reduce costs

Improve interface utilization and eliminate the need for extra transit capacity

Eliminate congestion

Move traffic away from congested links to deliver flawless experiences for bandwidth-intensive applications such as video streaming

Minimize latency

Ensure the lowest end-to-end latency for time-sensitive applications such as gaming and VoIP

Protect your services from DDoS attacks

Automate DDoS detection and mitigation to keep your services secure

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Nokia discusses trends, challenges and evolution

Automate traffic control to boost performance

Our express peering solution automates egress peering engineering and ingress peering engineering to handle rapidly changing internet traffic patterns and ensure the best QoE for end users. The solution optimizes traffic without human intervention. But it also allows you to manually validate steering actions before proceeding with changes.

You can choose from a large set of meaningful attributes to determine when and where traffic flows should be steered. For example, you can optimize traffic targeted at particular customers to enhance their QoE for certain applications, in specific locations. These attributes help you support sophisticated use cases with fine-grained optimization.

In many cases, it’s not enough to optimize traffic only at the peering edge. Our express peering solution considers your network and adjacent networks — in addition to the peering points — to guarantee the best performance from end to end.

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Peering engineering demonstration

See Nokia express peering in action

NSP ingress peer optimizer – ingress links
NSP latency steering optimizer – latency map

Stop DDoS attacks before they enter your network

Our express peering solution provides the IP network analytics and DDoS protection you need to secure your network interconnections by stopping cyberattacks that can overwhelm your infrastructure and cause widespread outages.

The solution uses real-time traffic visibility and deep insights to uncover disguised redirection and amplification attack vectors coming from legitimate customer traffic sources such as DNS and NTP servers.

It stops DDoS attacks before they enter your network by detecting and mitigating attacks inline on your peering routers, without requiring additional scrubbing appliances for volumetric DDoS mitigation.

Making the network part of the security solution removes the need to redirect affected traffic to a DDoS scrubbing center. Instead, the center can focus on application-level DDoS mitigation. This approach reduces DDoS mitigation cost by 65–85 percent and assures that traffic for time-sensitive applications is not delayed.

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Nokia Deepfield Defender

Watch Nokia’s response against DDoS attacks

Deepfield launch pad
Deepfield – internet applications mapping

Close the loop with a comprehensive and modular solution

Our express peering solution optimizes end-user QoE by using insight-driven automation to dynamically handle fast-changing traffic patterns, filter DDoS attacks, address network congestion and maintain high performance. This new operational model combines intelligence at scale with real-time visibility and instant control over network resources and application traffic flows.

Our Network Services Platform identifies where traffic can be optimized, controls and maps selected traffic flows to the most appropriate paths.
Our Deepfield IP network analytics solution provides visibility of network links at the application level.
Our groundbreaking FP4 routing silicon provides network performance and scale, inline DDoS filtering and continuous real-time monitoring of network state and resource health.

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While each component plays a critical role in ensuring the best performance, our express peering solution is modular. For example, it can be used with third-party peering routers or analytics tools to automate traffic steering.