Nokia announced various updates to its autonomous networks portfolio, including an expanded collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Unveiled at DTW Ignite, the vendor’s updates include a refresh of its Autonomous Networks Suite to include on-premise deployment options and voice over LTE (VoLTE) service quality, optimized observability, and enhanced radio access networks (RAN) subscriber experience.

In addition, Nokia is bringing the home of its autonomous network apps – Autonomous Networks Fabric – to AWS. The release will build on Nokia’s existing digital operations apps already available on AWS, covering orchestration, assurance, and unified inventory. Oguz Sunay, CTO for AI and autonomous networks at Nokia, framed the integration as preparing telecom firms for the AI era by scaling operators’ ambitions while maintaining control and governance.

The hyperscaler tie-up follows a recent partnership between the pair on agentic AI-powered 5G-Advanced network slicing in a live 5G network, with early adopters including Orange and Emirati carrier Du. As revealed at this year’s Mobile World Congress, the agents were made using Amazon Bedrock and interact with AWS’s cloud to manage slicing operations with minimal human involvement.

Agentic announcements

On the agentic front, Nokia took the opportunity at DTW to unveil its Autonomous Networks Agent Library, a suite of pre-built AI agents for security, assurance, and service operations, including zero-day attack identification, anomaly reasoning, event triage, service-order troubleshooting, and multi-agent coordination. Nokia claimed productivity gains with the library range on average from 60 to 80% when compared to traditional security operations.

The suite reflects an increased focus on security in the telecom realm in the wake of both Salt Typhoon and increased AI adoption. As recently explored by SDxCentral, AI is being explored both by enterprises and cyber attackers, with Nokia warning that state-sponsored threats are adopting AI in their arsenal, leading to a need for AI-augmented response speeds in distributed denial of service (DDoS) defense services.

Samantha Kight, head of industry security at telecom industry group GSMA, recently told this title that AI has already greatly helped telecom-based security operation centers.

"It helps them be able to link different indicators of compromise to one another," Kight said. "It helps them generate reports to present the best advice against a threat. So there's been so many advantages to it, but as a result, they're spending a lot of time also having to defend against AI attacks.”

Elsewhere, DTW saw Nokia update its MantaRay service management and orchestration (SMO) platform with non-real-time RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) functionality. Nokia waved its AI flag again by touting AI-driven rApps for managing complex radio networks, anomaly detection, and support for dynamic network slicing

Finland’s finest is also adding an authentication framework to WaveSuite, Nokia’s software suite for managing optical networks. The framework includes use cases such as proactive key performance indicator (KPI) anomaly detection and photonic equipment failure detection.