Nokia said its OSS, BSS, and security software applications will be unified under the company’s AI and machine learning-focused AVA division
Nokia announced that it is strengthening its software portfolio in the areas of security, automation and monetization.
As part of its announcement, Nokia said that its OSS, BSS, and security software applications will be unified under the company’s AI and machine learning-focused Automation, Visualization, Analytics (AVA) division.
With the new move, Nokia said it aims to make its applications fully cloud-native and deployable in any cloud environment, edge, public or private; in addition to launching several Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) services to provide CSPs and enterprises with faster time-to-value in operating their telecom networks.
Nokia also said it is introducing AVA Open Analytics framework to help CSPs accelerate AI projects, in part by simplifying how data is stored and used.
The Finnish vendor says that its AVA Open Analytics framework will move customers from monolithic and centralized data “lakes” to a hybrid data mesh architecture that abstracts technical complexity and enables data scientists to focus instead on the needs of their data use cases. Nokia expects the framework to be fully commercially available in 2023.
Nokia is also introducing the Ignite digital ecosystem to bring together customers and application partners to accelerate and commercialize security, automation and monetization solutions.
Using Nokia’s ecosystem enablement platform, Ignite streamlines collaboration through secure access to resources such as on-demand product sandboxes for experimentation and integration. Nokia said that more than 20 projects are already ongoing with customers and application providers, including the development of new machine-learning models, automation and cybersecurity incident detection and response use cases.
Ahmad Latif Ali, associate VP of European telecom insights at IDC, said: “Telcos are searching for more intelligent ways to monetize their network data. As they do that, telcos must consider implementing next-generation AI, ML, and data governance capabilities. Nokia’s announcement today is an example of a vendor redoubling its efforts to drive further analytics innovation and 5G value for CSPs and enterprises.”
“By strengthening our analytics framework and unifying our portfolio under the AVA brand, we are reinforcing our commitment to provide deep intelligence across our security, automation and monetization solutions. We look forward to partnering with our CSP and enterprise customers along with application developers to drive further innovation and create 5G value,” said Hamdy Farid, SVO of business applications at Nokia.
