IP-optical network automation

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If you’re looking to accelerate the automation of your network but
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Network automation has become
a top operator initiative
Today’s competitive environment demands that you get maximum value from your network. But networks are
becoming more complex, which makes it tougher to reduce operating costs and increase agility.
Automation helps you create a new kind of network that is more responsive, efficient and reliable – and simpler to
operate. Technologies such as model-driven mediation, intent-based networking and baseline analytics enable
multivendor networks to self-configure, optimize their performance in real time and recover from failure events.

What you get with automation

Operational efficiency Agility Quality

Reduce the cost of repetitive tasks and Rapidly deploy network updates and respond Reduce human errors and system outages and
make complex operations simple. faster to changing demands. deliver consistent, predictable outcomes.

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 The quantitative benefits of IP network automation
Quantitative benefits from
Labor time Errors processing Time to revenue Mean time to repair -65%
network automation in the
areas of service fulfilment,

Operational cost
network lifecycle management, -65%
and network and service

68% 85% 88% 71% -50%

assurance have been
estimated for an operator
providing IP services. reduction reduction reduction
-86% reduction

Service Network Network

fulfilment lifecycle and service
Total
management assurance

Before automation
Labor time Errors processing Time to revenue Mean time to repair
After automation

Source: Analysys Mason, Operator benefits from the automation of IP networks

68% 85% 88% 71%

reduction reduction reduction reduction
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No one said automating
was easy
Automation is not It’s about
about purchasing delivering
a tool a project

Automation is meant to reduce network complexity. But it can be difficult to implement.

Choosing the right automation tool is an essential first step. But
it’s just as important to have skills that will help you integrate
the tool into your network environment and use it efficiently
and effectively. These skills are rare and expensive to acquire.
Project management is also critical to a successful automation
journey. You need a thorough plan that provides answers to
critical questions right from the beginning:
• Where should we start?
• How much will it cost?
• How long will it take?

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Make automation deployment predictable
We have built a collection of predefined use Before you start with one of our
Use Case 1 Use Case 2 Use Case 3
cases that will help you quickly introduce a broad use cases, you’ll know:
set of automation functions into your IP-optical
• How it works
network. What
• What benefits it brings • X Products
The collection covers all aspects of the network •
• What product features and •
services lifecycle: equipment configuration, •
service fulfillment, network assurance and traffic services it requires
How X Services
optimization. • How long it will take to •
•
Our proven use cases reduce risk, speed up implement •
•
implementation and ensure predictable results. • How much it will cost
X Effort
Benefits
•
•
•
•
X Price
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The Network Services Platform (NSP)
is our toolbox Your own apps

Our use cases leverage the Nokia Network

Services Platform (NSP) as a toolbox. Services orchestration
Abstraction

NSP accelerates service fulfillment and simplifies Configuration and

Optimization
network management, assurance and provisioning apps
and control apps
optimization. These capabilities maximize the
agility, efficiency and reliability of IP, optical and
microwave networks.
More than 930 network operators worldwide
have deployed the NSP, and we support them
with a team of knowledgeable experts. We’re NSP
ready to use our proven technology and Open
Network programmable
expertise to help you accelerate the deployment management, Assurance and
control and
platform analytics apps
of network automation.
orchestration
Network
orchestration
Read our NSP brochure to find out more. > apps Applications
Programmability

Programmable network
Multivendor, multi-domain multi-layer,
IP/optical/microwave and data center networks
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A bundle of tools and services
We implement our use cases using a combination Our tool Our services
Your
of feature and automation packages. use case • Requirements consultation
• Network design
• Network operations
Feature packages consist of off-the-shelf NSP
software functionality for network configuration,
• Resource control
• Network automation
+ •
•
Software deployment
System configuration
• Acceptance testing
provisioning, assurance and optimization. NSP • Project management

Automation packages implement the use cases

into specific service provider environments. They
combine professional services and software Feature Automation
packages packages
artifacts such as workflows, intents (deployment
templates), network adaptors and custom reports.
! You may already
have those

Software licenses + Manpower and software artifacts

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More ways to automate with NSP
NSP artifacts
Our use case catalog isn’t the only automation Intents - Workflows - Adaptors - Reports

option we provide. You can also use NSP to take

a do-it-yourself approach to automation.
NSP’s open programmable platform provides
you with a superior toolset for building your own Leverage
network automation use cases. You can take
advantage of our developer portal and user Feature Developer
Do-it-yourself package portal &
community to access documented APIs, code Use case!
</> GitHub
snippets, tutorials and more.
If you want expert help, you can contract with and
our NSP professional services team to create
bespoke automation use cases that meet
your needs. [product] [user community]

or Feature Automation
Check out our developer portal and join our package package
community of world-class innovators and
programmers. >
and

Catalog [product] [services]

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Accelerate time-to-market with
Nokia automation use cases
Save time and reduce risks at every step of the project.

Use case Network Software Software System Testing &

definition design development deployment configuration acceptance

Custom approach Uncertainty = higher

do-it-yourself

Our use cases Our use cases use Our delivery experience Our proven use
are fully pre-built artifacts reduces implementation cases make test
defined and and require limited cycles and improves results more
documented custom development outcomes predictable

Catalog approach Save time

Uncertainty = lower

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Assessing and prioritizing use cases
High
Not sure where to start 1
with network automation? 10
An assessment of the effort you need to implement
a use case and the benefits that use case brings can 2
help you prioritize the “quick wins” that will have the 9
11
biggest impact. 3

Impact
12
4 5
6

14 7
13 8
Low

Long Time to implementation Short

# Identified use case # Prioritized use case

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Solve real business challenges
Our use cases help you solve business challenges and achieve business outcomes that drive efficiency and profitability.

Business challenge Key use cases Business outcomes

• Service creation time reduced from 12 to 5

• Network and service discovery weeks
Improve operational efficiency
• Service fulfilment • CSP saved €800k in OPEX for card swaps
and productivity
• Network lifecycle management (4,300 cards) Network and
• Order pipeline sped up by two quarters IT buyers

• $US2.8M revenue loss avoidance through

Lower MTTR and reduce churn • IP-optical multilayer
reduced truck rolls and churn*

• IP-optical multilayer
• 4 month deployment cost payback 24%
Deferred or reduced CAPEX • Path placement, optimization
increase in path placement
and simulation Business
• Service fulfilment buyers
• 8 to 9 times more revenue than present
Open new revenue streams • Network and service assurance
mode of operation
• Analytics enablement
* Appledore Research April 2020 >

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Choose the use cases you need
Our catalog covers a wide range of use cases for automating all aspects of the network lifecycle.

Path placement, optimization

Network and service discovery IP-optical multilayer Network lifecycle management and simulation
Physical topology discovery IP-optical topology discovery NE provisioning - day 0 IP/MPLS topology discovery

IGP topology discovery Optically aware IP routing pLTE provisioning - Day 0 LSP path placement

Brownfield service discovery IP-optical diversity analysis NE provisioning - day 1 LSP path offline computation

Coordinated maintenance NE provisioning - day 2 LSP path optimization - auto

Floating port restoration NE backup

Service fulfilment
Optical service provisioning Service migration - port | card
Network and service assurance
E-line
What-if analysis Service migration - tunnels
C-line Fault and network assurance
400ZR point-to-point Closed loop automation
E-LAN / EVPN Custom alarm correlation
Elastic IP/optical bandwidth NE upgrade
L3 VPN Service supervision

Internet enhanced services Telemetry export enablement

Analytics enablement
Composite services Network performance monitoring

Bandwidth on demand Pre-packaged reports Transport slice monitoring

Transport slice enablement Custom reports

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Network and service discovery
Issues
• Incomplete or inaccurate visibility of the network
topology and services can lead to operational
problems and inefficiencies and hinder end-user
quality of experience (QoE)
?
Solution
• Use an automated and deterministic approach to
reliably discover and visualize the network elements,
physical topology and existing services

Benefits
• Accelerate adoption of automation and carrier SDN
practices on existing services while maintaining
FCAPS operations
• Maximize operational efficiency
• Reduce OPEX

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Service fulfilment
Issues
• Long lead time and high-touch, low-accuracy service
provisioning environment
I want a 1G Ethernet
• High cost of maintaining disjointed legacy provisioning
with a strict SLA
tools and processes
• Limited coordination between provisioning and other Network
lifecycle management processes

Solution
• Automate business service provisioning and enhance
service-level monitoring and visibility

Seconds
or minutes
Benefits
• Save time (hours per day)
• Free up time for other high-value tasks
• Shorten time to revenue by 88%
• Reduce provisioning errors
• Improve service reliability NSP
• Reduce operational cost by 86%

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CASE STUDY

Tier 1 operator Solution

in Brazil Service fulfilment

Automating IP services delivery over a multivendor network

A leading service provider is delivering NSP replaces the legacy

OSS
IP business servicesover a multivendor provisioning tool to manage
IP network.The operator uses a legacy third-party PE routers:
provisioning tool to operate those services, NSP Nokia
• Automated service fulfilment IP/MPLS Core
and suffers from the following issues:
across multivendor IP/MPLS
650 PE
network domains with an routers
• Slow and error-prone operations
agile, model-driven approach NETCONF/YANG,
• Lack of operational innovation capability CLI and SNMP
• Limited support for new services such • Optimized network Vendor A Vendor B Vendor C
as E-VPN utilization while
maintaining services
performance with Metro Metro
access
Read the online case study > network-wide traffic access

engineering
Business
customers

Benefits
• Operational efficiency
• OPEX savings
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Network lifecycle management
Add or
Issues upgrade
Migrate
• Manual installation and commissioning of new devices
require expertise and time
• Manual device software upgrades and service migration
+ Network
also require expertise and time, and can be error prone

Solution Device Service

• Automate repetitive manual tasks using pre-defined
templates and workflows

Benefits
• Accelerate infrastructure deployment and service
rollouts NSP
• Eliminate human errors
• Reduce maintenance windows
• Lower operational costs by 65%

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CASE STUDY

du Solution

Emirates Network lifecycle management

Du seeks to automate its network to • Zero-touch provisioning of cell site gateways
enhance the customer experience and
• Migration and fulfillment for mobile and triple-play residential services after deployment of new network equipment
reduce time to market. The company
is looking at automation beyond the
service fulfillment perspective. It
wants to automate activities within the “Du and Nokia worked together to automate
network service migration using NSP. This
operational environment, particularly
frequently performed tasks that can
become more complex as they extend
deeper into the network.
allowed us to reduce the time needed for
Read the blog >
pre-check/post-check from 8 hours to
1.5 hours while avoiding human errors.”
Basel El-AbedDirector - Transport Network Planning & IP Core, du

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Network and service assurance
Issues
• Operations teams find it challenging to monitor and
maintain services split across many groups and tools New service Network
• Limited correlation of root causes makes it hard to More traffic incident
resolve service issues
• Problem diagnosis tools and procedures are difficult Network
and time consuming
• Customers perceive poor quality of service

Solution
• Harmonize operational visibility and enhance proactive Monitoring Solving
resolution capabilities

Benefits
• Lower operational costs by 50%
• Improve ability to spot problems before they become
NSP
visible to customers Troubleshooting
• Reduce MTTR by 71%
• Reduce error processing time by 85%

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CASE STUDY

Tier 2 operator Solution

Australia Network and service assurance

A leading full-service telecommunications • Single system and interface replaces
provider is currently rolling out a 5G multiple troubleshooting systems
network in selected areas of Australia. and tools Alarms NMS Spreadsheets ITSM CLI Scripts
• Correlated and unified source of
To ensure a superior user experience,
actionable network insights
the operator needs a simple, unified
solution for troubleshooting its • Automatic triage Backhaul
transport
completely new transport solution, which • NSP acts as aggregator/correlator (IP, MW, optical)
covers IP, optical and microwave.

Benefits NSP

• Cut the number of steps required

Backhaul
to solve a problem by at least 50% transport
(IP, MW, optical)

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Path placement, optimization and simulation
Issues
• Lack of network control impacts resources and Congestion
end-user QoE
• 5G services have stringent network performance
requirements for latency and bandwidth
• Network capacity is wasted because operators
leave headroom for traffic spikes

End user Content,

service, app
Solution
• Centralized, instant network resource control with
real-time visibility Closed-loop
Monitoring
optimization

Benefits
• Increase network utilization
• Avoid congestion
• Improve service performance NSP
(e.g. latency, packet loss, jitter) Path Computation
• Reduce cost Element (PCE)

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CASE STUDY

LG U+ Solution
South Korea Path placement, optimization
and simulation Service operations

NSP
Major provider of high-speed • Automate network operations and ease Programmable
management platform
internet, VoIP, IPTV and data integration with orchestrators and OSS and external resource
services now offers a wealth of controller
• Meet service-level agreements (SLAs) by
innovative 5G services that put
dynamically placing and maintaining
unprecedented requirements
network services on the best possible
on its IP network
resource paths
• 5G services need network
resources to be quickly • Monitor the network in real time Access
available on demand to ensure that the actual performance of N x 100G Transport 5G core
100GE
• 5G eMBB use cases require 5G services reflects the strict SLAs
high bandwidth • Open up to transport network slicing –
• 5G URLLC use cases have automation, creation, assurance and Edge Aggregation Backbone
strong service speed and optimization
availability constraints
SR-TE
Read the online case study >

Benefits
• Accelerate 5G service rollout
• Improve operational efficiency
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IP-optical multilayer
IP/MPLS
Issues
• Lack of real-time IP-optical cross-layer insights can lead
to severe operational issues, including unpredictable
failure impacts and suboptimal performance
• Impact of optical layer operations (maintenance,
restoration and protection) on IP layer

Solution
• Gain full control over the optical topology
• Use shared risk link group (SRLG) constraints and
optical latency for network optimization Optical

Benefits
• Improve network resiliency
• Enable latency-sensitive IP services
• Enhance troubleshooting through alarm correlation
NSP
IP-optical coordination
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CASE STUDY

SDN Solution
Communications IP-optical multilayer
SDN Communications operates a Topology discovery and visualization
50,000-mile fiber-optic network in
South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska, Reduce OPEX by using a single, powerful management and control platform
Minnesota, Iowa, Montana, Wyoming that supports common tools and practices across and between IP and optical
and Colorado. network layers and network domains.

The company was planning to optimize Optically aware IP routing

its IP and optical networks to deliver Use SRLG and latency information from the optical domain to improve
business-to-business broadband resilience and QoS when computing IP paths.
service and improve its ability to
respond to fast-changing customer Cross-layer navigation and fault correlation
demands, including an eventual
Mitigate potential faults before they occur and rapidly resolve issues using
5G rollout.
root cause analysis.

Read the online case study >

Benefits
• Greater operational efficiency and lower costs for the control and
maintenance of business broadband and 5G backhaul network infrastructure
• Rapid service instantiation and efficient monitoring to ensure correct
operation throughout the network and service lifecycle

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Analytics enablement
Issues
• Third-party or homegrown tools require lots of
professional services, in-house development and
integration time • Detailed capacity
• Extracting meaningful analysis can be cumbersome • Performance and QoE analysis
• KPIs for utilization and congestion
and time consuming Data collection
• Customer and service uptime
policies and
retention rules

Solution Analytics and

• Use pre-integrated reporting with prepackaged or reporting
custom reports that are tailored to a specific need

NSP

Benefits Network
• Reduce TCO and time to market with a turnkey solution
• Make more effective decisions about your business and
network with relevant insights and improved visibility

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