Wavelengths 2024 Exhibition

Enabling scale and performance with PSE-6s

See the industry’s most advanced super-coherent optics in action. The PSE-6s delivers high-performance optical networking to maximize bandwidth in new and existing networks to deliver high-speed network services.

Advanced optical subsystems

Experience Nokia's subsystems portfolio, showing evolution and vertical integration of DSPs, Silicon Photonics and DCOs. Try your luck at building your own optical transceiver through virtual reality.

Optical solutions for data center interconnect

This demo showcases Nokia's PSI portfolio compact modular platforms optimized for datacenter environments. See our solutions for transponder and WDM line system applications powered by open model-driven APIs.

Amplify your metro edge

The bandwidth requirements for optical metro edge applications have constantly increased while there is a desire for smaller footprint solutions. This demo will highlight Nokia's innovations optimized for the metro edge.

Capacity planning and provisioning in minutes

Discover how you can use Nokia WaveSuite automation to reduce the time it takes to configure optical services from weeks or months down to minutes.

Fully sutomated service fulfillment

Discover how your end customers can initiate new optical transport services on their own, and have service fulfillment, wave design and planning all integrated to deliver the service in a closed loop without any manual intervention, ensuring efficiency and realiability.

Actionable network insights as a service

See how you can take advantage of WaveSuite Network Operation Center and Optical Professional Services to receive automated 1830 PSS BOM forcasting in your inbox based on historical consumption of network capacity.

Spot network failures before they occur

Use Bell Labs algorithms and WaveSuite Health and Analytics to collect and collate network data to identify patterns and trigger alerts about network failures before they happen so you can perform preventative maintenance and avoid downtime.

AI-based natural language network management

See how you can interact with the optical network management system using everyday language. Streamline network managemnt, receive recommnedations, assisance and detailed reports that boost your operational efficiency and increase productivity.

Data Center Fabric

High-performance compute, AI and capacity are driving data center modernization. The Nokia Data Center Fabric portfolio offers a complete, end-to-end solution for all leaf-spine architectures with capacities scaling to 800GE. See why GigaOm rates it as the market’s most innovative data center networking solution.

7250 IXR

The 7250 IXR series delivers leading capabilities for access, aggregation and data centers where the strength of merchant silicon is best suited. Check out our demos of these new products:

• 77250 IXR-R6d/dl MDAs (back-set QSFP28 and combo MDA)
• 7250 IXR-X1b/X3b based on J2C+ with integrated MACsec/IPsec
• 7250 IXR-E2c

Industry & government networks

Nokia is focused on mission-critical service delivery. We serve more than 1,200 industry, enterprise and public sector customers with network solutions that deliver reliability, performance and longevity. Check out our demos and see how we deliver unprecedented value and investment protection with platforms that support extended temperature ranges, hardening for utility and transportation applications, and native support for legacy interfaces (C37.94, RS232, E1/T1).

7730 SXR

FPcx silicon is setting new industry benchmarks in network upgrade agility and delivering unprecedented cost and power savings. Join this demo to see how the 7730 SXR family of six platforms (the first two available this summer) uses the power of FPxc to provide silicon diversity and substantially more capability than merchant silicon.

Quantum-safe networks with ANYsec

Discover how you can use Nokia FP5 and FPcx ANYsec technology to enable quantum-safe (Q-S) network connectivity at layer 2 (MAC), layer 2.5 (MPLS) and layer 3 (IP) today. ANYsec uses quantum-safe crypto keys and an IEEE802.1AE encryption engine within the FP5 and FPcx to enable low latency and line rates through encryption on existing ports, LSPs and future SRv6 tunnels with the flick of a switch. Join this session to learn how our MACsec and ANYsec technology can help you build your network to deliver on SLAs and enable Q-S connectivity today and to secure it against future threats.

Coherent routing

Pluggable coherent optics provide an option to connect IP routers directly over tunable DWDM wavelengths. This can help you realize cost, power and space savings by integrating the IP routing layer with the optical transport layer. Come talk to our experts about how best to leverage 33W+ optics in platforms that provide future-proof support for 800G coherent optics today.

7750 SR

The 7750 SR is the longest living continuously supported router in history. It provides investment protection by supporting upgradability across multiple generations of systems. In this session, we’ll demonstrate media-dependent adapters (MDAs) with ANYsec/MACsec/200G SFP-DD/FlexE that are backwards compatible with the FP4 network processor and provide a full set of FP5 upgrades. See how these MDAs provide cost-effective upgrades that can future-proof your network today.

Why SRv6?

What can SRv6 offer to operators that have deployed or are thinking about deploying SR-MPLS? This demonstration shows classic SRv6 operation and how the compressed SID can make traffic engineering a viable option with currently deployed silicon. You’ll see how SRv6 networks scale using classic CIDR summarization techniques, with new enhancements to enable failure recovery. You’ll also learn about the options for SRv6 migration to provide end-to-end service connectivity in brownfield and greenfield networks.

50G PON, the next step in PON

Fixed Networks, part of Nokia Infrastructure, focuses on the evolution of last mile broadband fiber offerings, not only for PON and P2P in access but also in the quest for providing differentiated offerings for Gigabit in home experience. There will be a live demonstration of multiple access technologies coexisting on the same PON including XGS-PON, 25GS-PON and in an industry first, 50G PON. A selection of Nokia OLTs, ONTs and WiFi beacon equipment will be showcased.

Optimize your broadband edge

Learn how to scale up your fixed–wireless access (FWA) service by using the Nokia Multi-Access Gateway (MAG) to offload FWA traffic from the packet core. We call it “multi-access” because it supports FWA (4G, 5G NSA and 5G SA) and wireline access. Next, find out how you can add our Deepfield analytics solution to the converged MAG solution to decode the consumption patterns of your FWA and wireline subscribers. These valuable insights will help you plan and engineer your access network to optimize your network investment.

NSP for utilities

NSP for Utilities is the first segment specific version of the Network Services Platform. In this demo we will showcase the simplifications that have been implemented in this Utilities version of NSP, including menu items and dashboard elements tailored to the Utilities customer. We will also demonstrate the use of intent based networking to provision Utilities services such as Tele-protection and SCADA.

Segment routing for OT networks

The evolution of Operational Technology (OT) networks from Time-Division Multiplexing (TDM) to IP/MPLS and Segment Routing is now a reality. With the critical nature of these networks, where an outage can have catastrophic consequences, it is essential to implement redundancy technologies to ensure operational continuity. This demonstration aims to showcase how a network can effectively support multiple packet forwarding methods over the OT network, thereby increasing resilience and redundancy.

Containerlab: lab as code

Get hands-on experience with Containerlab, which revolutionizes network lab management by treating it as code. Our team will show you how to create reproducible network labs using real-world examples and install, set up and define network topologies to streamline your network lab environments.

New data center NetOps tools

Watch a demo that uses NetBox, a popular data center management tool, as a source of truth to interconnect services in two data centers over a WAN. You’ll learn how Ansible integrates with CI/CD pipelines to enhance your NetOps and how NetBox serves as a common inventory for assets and services in the data center and the WAN. You’ll also discover how custom-developed Ansible playbooks let you implement intent-based networking.

Networking for AI

Find out how you can build an AI cluster with SR Linux, the network operating system (NOS) for our data center fabric and new 7730 SXR and 7250 IXR-X1b/X3b routers. We’ll show you how SR Linux lets you use open interfaces and toolsets to adopt new technologies and customize your operations.

Reliable, simple, and adaptable data center operations

Discover a modern automation platform that delivers simple, assured and adaptable data center network operations. In this demo, we’ll show you how the platform:

• Delivers new levels of flexibility and scalability through a Kubernetes-native foundation and an event-driven and microservices-based design
• Supports a complete and easy-to-use set of operations tools for all phases of the data center network life cycle, from Day 0 design to Day 1 deployment and Day 2+ operations phases
• Simplifies network operations with a GenAI-enabled assistant

Stop DDoS attacks in seconds

"Book a 30-minute session at our Deepfield Defender “arcade,” where you can launch real-world DDoS attacks in a lab setup and use Deepfield Defender to detect and block them. Or see a demo that shows how our Deepfield Defender-based DDoS security solution can detect and neutralize complex DDoS attacks in seconds. Don’t miss our Defender Mitigation System, the 7750 DMS-1, which provides up to 2.8 Tb/s of DDoS scrubbing capacity in a compact 2 RU platform. "

Your network: Secured

Imagine a world where network and security coexist and evolve in complete harmony from Day 1. In this session, you’ll meet the Nokia SR Linux Security Agent and discover its powerful features. We’ll show you how security policies can be translated and implemented into controls. Sit back and watch as the Agent monitors and reports violations as they occur.

Better CDN traffic insights

Today, most of the internet traffic entering your network comes from content delivery networks (CDNs). This traffic is highly dynamic and distributed and can enter your network from multiple entry points, making it hard to track it down. Join us to discover how Nokia Deepfield provides visibility into the CDN traffic delivery chain to help you plan your network, optimize your investments and elevate the customer experience.

Quantum-safe networks

Outlining Nokia quantum-safe networks (QSN) framework, we’ll show you an option for implementing and applying a defense-in-depth paradigm at layer 2 and layer 1. Then we’ll show you the expanded option of a hybrid framework where the 1830 SMS can manage the key policies and orchestrate the generation and the exchange of quantum-safe encryption keys.

Enhance device operations in your WAN with NSP

Discover the benefits of applying DevOps principles to networking in a WAN managed by the Network Services Platform (NSP). See how NSP integrates with external systems to enhance the intent-based networking experience. Use cases demonstrated:

• Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) of network elements with NSP
• Security enforcement through intents
• Mediation-agnostic service management for SR OS

Programmable service automation with NSP

Discover the latest configuration management enhancements in the Network Services Platform (NSP). NSP now provides real-time configuration assurance state and lets you approve changes made by network engineering staff in maintenance windows or critical network outage scenarios to prevent service configuration drift. Use cases demonstrated:

• Preventing configuration drift
• Unified and personalized user experience for operators
• Unified service fulfilment, assurance and analytics across the portfolio

Harnessing the power of AI in NSP

See how the Network Services Platform (NSP) uses AI to help you perform daily operations. Use cases demonstrated:

• Knowledge assistance: In-context help for NSP, including dynamic data-like network state
• Artifact assistance: Easing the development of workflows
• Explainability of NSP APIs

Insight-driven network operations

Find out how you can use network insights to drive assurance, surveillance and troubleshooting operations in your network. Use cases demonstrated:

• Modern assurance user experience
• Network health and troubleshooting dashboards
• Network and service monitoring and reporting
• Telemetry enablement, InA , baseline and anomaly detection
• Insight-driven closed-loop automation (indicator analytics)

Optimizing IP-optical networks with coherent routing

See how NSP's intent-based automation using cross-domain coordinator can provide end-to-end managed solutions with coherent routing with WaveSuite's automation framework for optimizing complex ROADM networks requiring power balancing for sustaining optimized network performance. Use cases demonstrated include:

• Network Health and Troubleshooting dashboards
• Cross-domain connection management
• Coordinated assurnace and troubleshooting
• ZR+ Optical frequency & power management

Monetize and optimize your network with NSP

Find out how the NSP’s transport slice and resource control capabilities can help you monetize and optimize your network. Use cases demonstrated:

• Transport slicing
• Path control for network optimization
• Infrastructure configuration management (ICM) for LSP

Your team: Certified

Explore our My Nokia Learning Labs demos and engage with our experts. Discover the latest learning and certifications, and access exclusive attendee-only offers that deliver real impact for learners and organizations in the world of IP and optics.

Your network: Virtualized

Discover how you can collect configuration data from your IP and optical networks and virtualize it using a digital twin. We’ll show you how the integration of our audit capability with digital twin (DTaaS) emulation can help you make fast network enhancements.

Your operations: Optimized

Find out how our cutting-edge network automation professional services and Network Services Platform (NSP) can help you optimize your network's functionality and efficiency. Explore our exhibit to discover practical applications drawn from our diverse catalog, including NE upgrades, seamless Zero Touch Provisioning and management of the latest Nokia devices.

Your network: Validated

Discover new ways to reduce the time and effort you spend on testing. We’ll show you how to combine Network Test Automation (NTA) with digital twin (DTaas) capabilities to validate IP and optical network touch operations.

Product documentation – introducing our latest innovation!

"Ever tried to find detailed information about an MD-CLI command? Wondering where to get this information? Look no further! We are excited to unveil the newest addition to our product documentation solutions. The beta MD-CLI Explorer provides instant access to detailed command information whenever you want it, replacing the need to navigate through complex YANG models and many pages of documentation. This reliable, easy-to-use command lookup tool will be an invaluable resource that will change the way you understand and work with MD-CLI data. Visit our booth and be the first to see a demo of the beta MD-CLI Explorer!"