nokia announced two new SaaS (Software as a Service) offerings, which are intended to help communications service providers and enterprise customers reduce the power consumption of their networks, as well as automate device management control for smart home equipment, that is, to improve the management of the Internet of Things.
The first of the solutions is Nokia Analytics Virtualization and Automation (AVA) for Energy, and uses Artificial Intelligence to monitor network traffic and help reduce the amount of connectivity resources used during periods of low demand. It is also responsible for looking for network anomalies and testing the energy efficiency of passive infrastructure, such as batteries and power supplies. Nokia claims that AVA for Energy SaaS can help communications service providers save up to five times more on energy.
The second of Nokia’s SaaS solutions is Nokia Home Device Management, a device management platform for smart home components. It is a vendor-neutral tool that enables communications service providers and enterprise customers to remotely control and manage fleets of smart home devices. These include routers, WiFi amplifiers, network nodes, video set top boxes, voice over IP access devices and 4G/5G fixed wireless access devices.
In addition to these services, Nokia has also announced the availability of Anomaly Detection SaaSa machine learning-powered network anomaly detection tool, announced for release in November 2021.
Hamdy Farid, Vice President of Business Applications at Nokiahas stated that «the convergence of cloud-native software, hyperscale collaboration, and 5G make the business case for SaaS very compelling. These latest Nokia SaaS services reflect the path Nokia is leading to help our customers accelerate time to cost, reduce complexity and automate the service lifecycle through software consumed only on demand.«.
