Network Services Platform | Nokia.com
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
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.
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How NSP uses AI to transform network operations
What NSP can do for you and your network
How NSP streamlines multivendor management
How to automate and program your network with NSP
The quantitative benefits of IP network automation
NSP user experience and theming
Related solutions and products
Why choose NSP for network automation?
Why choose NSP for network automation?
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.
How NSP uses AI to transform network operations
NSP combines AI and network automation to help advance network connectivity in the AI supercycle and ease the journey toward fully autonomous networks. Network automation reduces manual effort and helps people and systems execute tasks with greater speed, consistency, and accuracy. AI extends these capabilities by accelerating data analysis and decision-making and plays a dual role in network management and automation through
predictive and generative capabilities
.
NSP’s agentic AI framework enables the deployment of AI agents grounded in trusted, real-time network data, allowing them to reason based on network context and take guided, explainable actions within operational guardrails. They can also interact with external agents and systems using communication protocols such as the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
NSP AI agents help you expedite your network operations, such as troubleshooting, to prevent downtime by identifying root causes faster, reducing operational noise, and resolving complex IP network issues with greater confidence. This lowers your operating costs and improves overall network reliability.
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Nokia introduces agentic AI framework in Network Services Platform
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Building AI-powered networks that sense, think, and act
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.
More info on zero touch provisioning
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.
More info on intent-based configuration management
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.
More info 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) to ensure optimal multi-layer paths across multiple domains that meet SLAs relating to cost, latency, and bandwidth.
More info on path control and optimization
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.
More info on IP-Optical coordination
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
How NSP streamlines 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
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.
How to automate and program your network with NSP
NSP provides you with a
that lets you automate your IP, optical and microwave networks to make them more agile, reliable and secure. You can take advantage of our
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.
The quantitative benefits of IP network automation
Reduction in labor time, time to revenue, error processing and more
NSP user experience and theming
Network topology – map view
Network and service health - dashboard
Unhealthy network equipment - view
Path control – network info and statistics
IP/optical coordination – map view
Fault management – alarm distribution
Fault management – root cause
Workflow execution visualization
Customer stories: What network operators say about NSP
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.
“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.”
BT End-toEnd 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
Awards and recognition
UTC Impact Award – Software Award for Nokia NSP Utilities
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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