Network Services Platform

Automate, manage and control IP and optical networks

How to buy

Our Network Services Platform (NSP) helps you automate your IP and optical 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 IP networks with:

A complete suite of ready-to-use applications that help your network operations teams cover all use cases for network management, orchestration and control
An SDN resource controller that lets your network engineering teams control the network and optimize traffic in real time
An open programmable platform that enables your engineers and developers to automate network operations and ease integration with orchestrators and operations support systems (OSS)

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Deepfield and NSP: Powering intelligent network services with real-time, insight-driven automated networking

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Automation solutions for different network needs

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 is user friendly and turns abstract service definition into device-specific commands 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 uses intent-based networking and closed-loop automation to achieve your intended outcomes and maintain them in real time in unexpected or evolving traffic and network conditions.

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Go automate! We’re evolving NSP to meet demand for more automation and easier programmability

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Check our quick tip videos to help you make the best use of NSP

Equipment configuration

Quick commissioning of new network equipment

NSP uses a model-driven approach to automate tasks such as MPLS configuration and path setup on any vendor equipment. It ensures that your network is ready for provisioning in minutes.

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NSP Network Functions Manager

Network service delivery

Get consistent provisioning that makes the best use of available network assets

NSP elevates service fulfillment by placing network services on optimal resource paths to meet your bandwidth, latency and resiliency targets, It uses real-time network insight to help keep your services on these targets.

Related resources:

ACG Research: Business Case for Network Services Platform

Network and service assurance

Anticipate, isolate and resolve issues before they impact user experience

NSP provides supervision, reporting and prediction tools that help you quickly troubleshoot network problems, pinpoint root causes and optimize your network. It uses machine learning to detect, diagnose and fix issues fast, and proactively prevent issues where possible.

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Machine-learning in NSP network and service assurance

Path computation

Make the best use of existing network assets

NSP acts as an external SDN controller Path Computation Element (PCE) by providing algorithms that ensure the best path placement and load balancing for path distribution throughout the network. It enables you to compute optimal multi-layer paths across multiple domains to meet service-level agreements (SLAs) relating to cost, latency, and bandwidth.

Related resources:

Computing a path to more profits - The benefits of a centralized Path Computation Element using Bell Labs Self-Tuned Adaptive Routing

Network function interconnect

Enable cloud-speed provisioning with deterministic quality of service

NSP allows you to rapidly create and efficiently deliver cloud-optimized services over a unified transport underlay. It automatically maps connectivity-specific SLA requirements to underlying traffic engineering policies. And it uses open standards and proven technologies to minimize risk, cost and time to market.

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IP/optical coordination

Boost operational efficiency and service velocity in IP/optical networks

NSP provides unified network visualization and coordination across IP and optical layers. Its powerful correlation and automation capabilities enable greater resiliency and enhanced operations of multi-layer, multi-domain network.

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IP/optical coordination

Network orchestration

Automate lifecycle management for network services

NSP automatically programs the behavior of the network to support application and service specifications. It can create, deploy, update, terminate and delete virtual and containerized network functions, as well as all the data center networks between these network functions.

Automating network operations in the 5G core

Network slicing

Deliver and assure network slicing services at unprecedented speeds

With NSP, you get a solution that completely automates the creation, assurance and optimization of network slices in transport and core domains. It simplifies operations by abstracting the complexity of those network domains for the end-to-end slice orchestration.

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End-to-end Network Slicing

Transport and core network slicing

NSP introduces new automated network slicing capabilities that enables you to streamline operations, reduce errors and meet high expectations for service velocity.

White paper

Automating network slicing operations in the 5G core with orchestration

Video interview

Implementing extreme automation effectively streamlines operations

Use case

Keeping delivery drones connected with 5G network slicing

Multivendor management with NSP

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 by onboarding, at runtime, your legacy and new network elements, whether from Nokia or third parties. This is achieved using its pluggable adaptors which support and mediate many standard and proprietary data models and a comprehensive range of management protocols including NETCONF/YANG, CLI and SNMP. NSP can also connect through other domain controllers using proprietary or open interfaces such as T-API.

Case study

Tier 1 in Brazil: Automating IP services delivery over a multivendor network

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Multivendor NETCONF / YANG-based SDN management interop test

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Accelerating SDN-enabled automation with road-tested transport APIs

Network automation and programmability

NSP provides you with a superior toolset that lets you automate your IP and optical 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 and more.

We have also built a catalog of predefined use cases that will help you save time and reduce risk.

eBook

Network automation use case catalog

Developer portal

Building on-demand networks together

Solution

IP and optical network automation

Application note

Nokia NSP for intent-based networking

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NSP Service Fulfilment – physical topology with resource overlay
NSP Fault Management – alarm distribution
NSP Network Supervision – geo map
NSP Service Supervision – impact diagram
NSP IP/MPLS Optimization – network info and statistics
NSP Cross Domain Coordinator – physical IP & optical topology
NSP Workflow Manager – flow execution visualization
NSP Analytics – port throughput summary

400%

ROI for flexible bandwidth services

58%

Less time and cost for on-demand service provisioning

24%

More revenue-generating traffic on existing network

Trust the leaders

More than 900 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 in the Emirates gains productivity with network automation

Case study

LG U+ automates its 5G transport network with NSP

Case study

SDN Communications coordinates its IP and optical networks with NSP

Case study

Tier1 in Brazil: Automating IP services delivery over a multivendor network

Press Release

Vodafone partners with Nokia to deliver 5G

Case study

Automated, customer-centric network management with NSP

Article

Mobily selects Nokia to modernize its IP and transport networks

"In order for SDN to mean we can really improve our customer experience and impact our network economics, we need approaches that consider the real-time state of the network and relate it to the requirements of the service we provide. Doing so allows us to assure performance, and optimise resource usage across all our network layers. Tightly coupling service requirements and performance with network control, as in NSP, promises to deliver real-world benefits of centralised optimisation whilst exploiting the strength of our existing distributed network."

Rob Shakir / BT End-to-End Network Architect

"We applaud NOKIA's initiatives to bring closed-loop automation to networks, and to help apply these modern methods to the large installed base of technology - achieving business transformation even ahead of underlying technology transformation"

Grant Lenahan / Partner and Principal Analyst, Appledore Research Group