Optical network blogs

Support secure, high-performance data center access and interconnectivity with wavelength services powered by Nokia 1830 PSD.

Find out how centralized OTN switching and transport help operators get more value from their WDM-based optical networks.

Learn how Nokia’s award-winning optical networking solutions make it easy to scale, optimize and secure your transport network.

Discover the benefits of using AI to help automate the deployment and management of optical networks.

Discover how optical networks can transform grid communications and help power utilities solve four of their biggest challenges.

Learn how to extend and optimize your optical network to meet growing speed and capacity demands at the metro edge.

Learn how Nokia WaveSuite can help you use network automation to detect, locate and troubleshoot disruptions on optical fibers.

Find out how Nokia WaveSuite Service Enablement uses automation to make it easier to sell optical network services.

Discover new research that explains how automation helps optical network operators unlock significant cost savings.

The modular Nokia C+L optical line system adds L-band capacity link by link and node by node or across an entire region or network.

Learn how ASE noise loading is used on subsea and terrestrial WDM networks

With our PSE-6s, more scale and performance bring significant benefits in enabling less cost and power.

How can optical fibers increase network capacity?

Generate new revenue by using OTN slicing to support customized services that use different transport network configurations.

Explore how to utilize more fiber spectrum for a continued optical fiber capacity growth. Read our blog for innovative spectrum use.

2023’s Helsinki Edition of CCW was a great success, with exciting new technology and rewarding engagement with our customers!

Read our blog to explore possible technology innovations needed for optical fiber capacity to keep up with future demand growth.

50G PON shows a lot of promise for the broadband industry. However, showing that a technology works and making an efficient solution are 2 different things.

Read our blog for the key to quickly deliver automated end-to-end services in your optical network.

Adopting a wholesale business model lets you monetize the assets in your optical network.

Nokia PSE-6s unleashes new frontiers in optical networking to meet the world’s growing need for connectivity.

The seriousness of DDoS attacks for REN’s requires stronger medicine than strong passwords, multi-factor authentication, and patching firewalls.

Flexible scale with extreme simplicity: Nokia’s innovative, holistic approach to network solutions focusing on real customer needs.

Building automated closed-loop operations is key to automating optical networks.

Topology discovery and export, and service provisioning are key ingredients for automating optical networks.

Learn how the right solution can help any network operator unlock new value with open optical networking.

Automating your optical network: benefits, challenges and foundational automation elements.

Fiber optics advances in subsea cable and submarine line termination equipment (SLTE) design

Coherent Routing is a new approach for building application-optimized IP-optical networks using pluggable digital coherent optics.

How to build systems and networks for a sustainable, secure, and scalable Iinternet.

Join us at OFC for demos, forums, talks and more on how our optical solutions can help you meet new demands with simpler, more scalable networks.

Quantum computers will have devastating implications for cryptography. Symmetric algorithms offer robust protection today.

Learn how Nokia PSE-V coherent optics optimize capacity–reach and ease network upgrades for challenging real-world applications.

Nokia NI is ready to rise to the challenge and prove ourselves the world’s most trusted systems partner for building the world’s most critical networks.

Operators are opening up optical networks to collaborate, innovate and create new paths to automation. Learn how our WaveHub ecosystem program can help you fast-track your…

Optical transport technology has evolved, and OTN continues to play an important role in multiservice networks. Learn how!

Reliance on manual processes means that service providers can take weeks to deliver on optical connectivity service orders. Find out how Nokia Wavesuite uses automation to…

With modern fiber networks quickly approaching Shannon’s Limit, how can carriers cost effectively add capacity on regional and long-haul networks?

Discover how segment routing is a powerful and proven technology for deploying scalable and programmable IP services.

Pluggable coherent optics will play a key role in the 400GE era but they present significant power and heat dissipation challenges.

Discover how combining ROADMs with pluggable digital coherent optics can help you optimize the cost and design of IP-optical networks.

Learn about our innovative approach in single-carrier and multi-carrier coherent optics.

Learn how our silicon photonics technology enables 400G everywhere and makes next-generation optical networks a reality.

Nokia Network Infrastructure has an ambition: to go far and to travel fast. Find out how.

Find out how optical line systems can play a key role in helping you maximize price–performance for 400G.

Learn how our silicon photonics technology enables 400G everywhere and makes next-generation optical networks a reality.