Nokia and Orange France complete first worldwide live service provider network tomography trial, supporting AI-ready infrastructure
Trial gives near real time visibility into conditions across Orange France’s live optical transport network showing how AI-ready automation can help operators gain more accurate insights into the health and performance of their optical networks.
Nokia today announced the successful completion of a live trial of network tomography with Orange France, demonstrating how advanced optical network intelligence can help operators better understand, manage and optimize their transport networks to prepare for the growing demands of AI-driven services.
Network tomography works like a health scan for optical networks. It gives operators a clearer view of what is happening across fiber links and wavelengths, without the need to install intrusive probes throughout the network. Powered by Nokia Bell Labs innovative algorithms, the solution imports and processes thousands of pieces of data sourced from coherent optical transmissions to gain near real-time insight into the condition of the overall network link by link.
The trial helped identify issues such as fiber degradation, amplifier problems, configuration errors and other network conditions that could affect performance. By spotting these issues early, operators can validate their underlying network faster and take action before the customers SLAs are impacted.
The trial also showed how network tomography can help operators make better use of their existing network capacity. By understanding the real condition of each optical link more accurately, operators can optimize performance, improve spectral efficiency and support more resilient services. This is an important step toward more automated optical networks, including AI-assisted operations and closed-loop automation.
The solution also utilizes equipment already installed in the network, avoiding the need for field force interventions and significantly reducing its environmental impact.
As network performance requirements become more stringent, operators need deeper visibility into the performance and condition of their transport infrastructures. With this successful trial, Orange is taking an important step toward the future of network operations. By using smart automation technology, we can better optimize the network and deliver more resilient services to our customers.
For many years, operators have had to rely on point measurements and manual investigations to understand what is happening inside their optical networks. This trial is an important milestone because it gives operators near-real-time visibility across optical links, helping them detect degradation, configuration issues and performance problems much earlier. Network tomography brings a new level of observability to optical infrastructure, helping operators simplify operations, make better use of existing network assets and prepare for the shift toward AI-native networks.
About Nokia
Nokia is the world's leading provider of network technology and enables a new era of artificial intelligence. We are developing the networks of the future that connect people, devices and intelligence. Our network solutions span fixed and mobile networks, as well as IP, optical, core, and data center networks. Our secure, AI-native network infrastructure enables the application and utilization of AI on a global scale.
About Orange
About Orange Orange is one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators. The Group aims to be the trusted partner for everyday digital life by providing individuals, businesses and communities with reliable connectivity and innovative services. As of the end of 2025, Orange connects 340 million customers (including MasOrange) across 26 countries and generated 40.4 billion euros in revenues.
As a trusted player, Orange leverages the excellence of its very high-speed broadband networks to deploy digital infrastructure in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. The Group is a European leader in fiber, with 100 million connectable households, and convergent offers. In France, Orange connects 34 million customers and was ranked No. 1 by the regulator Arcep for the quality of its mobile network for the 15th consecutive year. In Africa and the Middle East, the Group’s growth engine, Orange serves nearly 180 million customers and promotes digital and financial inclusion through its connected solutions.
Under the Orange Business brand, the Group supports companies in transforming their networks as well as in AI, trusted cloud and cybersecurity. Orange is also a major player in the wholesale market, where it has a leading global telecom infrastructure and significant capabilities for deploying and operating submarine cables. A committed innovator, Orange relies on 700 researchers and holds a portfolio of 11,000 patents.
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