A Comprehensive Solution To Meet Challenges Head On
Optical networks are the backbone of global communication systems in our digital-first landscape. With increasing demands for higher speeds, lower latency, and greater reliability, managing and optimizing these networks has never been more critical.
Nokia’s WaveSuite offers a comprehensive solution that empowers network operators to meet these challenges head-on. With its open, programmable management platform and extensive suite of applications, WaveSuite provides the tools you need to enhance network performance, expand capacity, and unlock new revenue opportunities.
What is Nokia WaveSuite?
Nokia’s WaveSuite is an innovative suite of applications that empowers network operators to meet the dynamic demands of modern optical networks. Whether you want to optimize your network’s performance, scale its capacity, or monetize its assets, WaveSuite offers a comprehensive solution tailored to your needs. The suite is built on an open, programmable management platform, allowing for seamless integration with orchestration systems and operations and business support systems (OSSs/BSSs). This flexibility ensures that WaveSuite can be adapted to various network environments, making it a valuable tool for operators looking to enhance their network management capabilities.
Optimize Network Performance and Operations
One of the primary challenges for network operators is ensuring that their networks operate at peak performance while minimizing costs. WaveSuite addresses this challenge by offering a range of tools that automate network operations, reduce the risk of human error, and ensure that your network is configured for maximum efficiency. This not only helps lower capital expenditures (CAPEX) and operational expenditures (OPEX) but also enhances your network’s overall reliability and security.
WaveSuite’s advanced diagnostic capabilities allow operators to improve fault diagnosis and reduce mean time to repair (MTTR), ensuring that network issues are resolved quickly and efficiently. This is particularly important for meeting service-level agreements (SLAs) and protecting revenue streams. Additionally, WaveSuite provides robust security features to protect your network from unauthorized access and denial-of-service attacks, further enhancing its reliability.
Scaling Network Capacity
As bandwidth demand continues to grow, network operators must be able to scale their networks quickly and efficiently. WaveSuite provides real-time insights into network performance and demand trends, allowing operators to anticipate potential issues before they occur. This proactive approach ensures that your network remains reliable even as it scales to meet increasing demand.
WaveSuite also offers comprehensive tools for managing network inventory and topology, making designing, planning, and deploying new network configurations easier. Whether adding new hardware or upgrading existing systems, WaveSuite streamlines the process, reducing the risk of errors and accelerating service order delivery. This increases customer satisfaction and shortens the time to revenue, ensuring your network can grow with your business.
Monetizing Network Assets
In addition to optimizing and scaling your network, WaveSuite provides powerful tools for monetizing your network assets. The suite enables service order orchestration and the introduction of new service types, helping you generate new revenue streams without significantly increasing CAPEX. WaveSuite supports advanced features such as service slicing, spectrum sharing, and virtual private network slicing, allowing you to offer premium value-added services confidently.
WaveSuite’s monetization capabilities extend to network synchronization, enabling you to offer synchronization-as-a-service and other innovative solutions. By leveraging WaveSuite’s automation applications, you can create new business models and partnerships that maximize the value of your network assets.
Key WaveSuite Applications
WaveSuite includes a range of applications that can be used individually or in combination to meet your network management needs. Some of the key applications include:
WaveSuite Network Operations Center
Enhances the Nokia optical network management software with additional openness and functionality, enabling faster service delivery and improved network visualization.
WaveSuite Resource Controller
Provides SDN controller functions across multiple domains and vendors, optimizing network asset utilization and supporting open network initiatives.
WaveSuite Health and Analytics
Delivers real-time network intelligence, leveraging AI and machine learning algorithms to predict and prevent network issues, maximizing fiber optic link performance.
WaveSuite Advanced Diagnostics
Enhances diagnostic capabilities with a troubleshooting automation engine, enabling rapid issue identification and resolution to protect SLAs.
WaveSuite Synchronizer
Offers control over the entire network synchronization infrastructure, simplifying the distribution of precise frequency, phase, and time synchronization information.
WaveSuite Optimizer
Enables proactive planning and multilayer scenario analysis, ensuring that your optical network delivers maximum capacity and value.
WaveSuite Planner
Facilitates efficient network design, planning, and layout, supporting a wide range of optical termination points and multivendor open photonic networks.
WaveSuite Service Enablement
Unlocks new revenue potential through patented B2B2X software models, enabling network virtualization and innovative business models such as connectivity-as-a-service.
Supporting Your Business Objectives
WaveSuite is more than just a set of tools; it’s a strategic asset that can help you achieve your business objectives. Whether focused on reducing costs, increasing network capacity, or generating new revenue streams, WaveSuite provides the capabilities you need to succeed.
By integrating with the Nokia Network Services Platform (NSP), WaveSuite offers IP/optical cross-domain coordination and service delivery, further boosting operational efficiency and service velocity. Nokia’s Optical Professional Services team can also help you customize your WaveSuite applications and achieve your automation goals.
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