Nokia is expanding its portfolio of cloud products with the intent of helping operators migrate to an environment where networks are based upon gear from multiple vendors.

The company is offering what it’s calling Prime Integration Service, which will bring a DevOps approach to cloud networks by handling the design and systems integration for operators’ cloud services.

To that end, Nokia will also open a Global Cloud Design Center in the U.K. that will demonstrate the company’s cloud capabilities as well as showcase its multivendor approach to delivering cloud services.

At the Design Center, Nokia will do testing and software validation, and it can tailor its services to an operator’s network to make sure that network quality is maintained during software upgrades.

The company also will provide cloud monitoring services for telcos and will troubleshoot any problems by providing a cloud expert at the operator’s premises.

Analyst Chris Antlitz of Technology Business Research says that Nokia’s approach to the cloud is smart because as operators migrate to a more cloud-centric environment they face a radical change in how their networks are architected and provisioned. “Nokia’s new cloud-related services, therefore, fill a critical need in the market,” he says.

Nokia is no stranger to the cloud. For the past couple of years, the company has been using network functions virt ualization (NFV) to build cloud-based services that could be used by carriers.