Nokia is launching several new products that will bring intelligent access to the network and help operators to deliver more bandwidth to more people sooner, deliver a gigabit experience to and into every home and automate and scale the network. The new products, as part of Nokia's Intelligent Access vision, includes a Software-Defined Access Network (
The company said that SDAN will enable operators to build pragmatic products and avoid vendor lock-in as they tackle surging customer demand. The SDAN platform includes two cloud-native, software-defined products, Altiplano and Lightspan.
Nokia said SDAN harnesses cloud intelligence and programmability to support concrete use cases that bring the most value to operators - such as network slicing, virtual access networks, data centre practices, wavelength mobility, cloud-based provisioning, automated operations and edge cloud architectures to enable 5G and IoT applications.
Nokia's cloud-native software platform, Altiplano, is designed for the SDN/NFV space, renewing operators' ability to scale bycentralising and virtualising network functionality that was traditionally embedded in the access equipment.
The Nokia Lightspan family delivers programmable access nodes, specifically designed for SDAN use cases, which bring data centre practices to the central office and introduce cloud and operational agility to the copper/fiber outside plant. SDAN is driven by real world use-cases defined by cooperation with large operators from around the world like du, nbn, and SK Telecom. SDAN is an essential part of the company's Intelligent Access vision, a new generation of broadband.
