The Journey to Autonomous Networks with Google and Nokia
The strategic partnership between Google Cloud and Nokia enables Telcos to enhance service reliability, proactively detect and resolve network issues, and turn fragmented data into value.
Join Google Cloud VP Muninder Sambi and Nokia SVP for Cloud and Network, Vishal Singh, and Kal De, SVP and Head of Products and Engineering, for a discussion on autonomous network operations.
The conversation centers on the critical transformation of the telecommunications industry towards autonomous network operations and the strategic partnership between Google Cloud and Nokia enabling customers to enhance service reliability, proactively detect and resolve network issues, and turn fragmented data into value.
Telecom communication service providers (CSPs) face significant challenges monetizing their 5G investments as increasing data traffic drives up CapEx and OpEx.
Operators actively seek solutions to boost network efficiency, moving beyond traditional automation to achieve true network autonomy. The industry must transition from manual, error-prone human intervention to efficient, machine-speed operations, to reduce human toil and associated costs.
To overcome these hurdles, CSPs are seeking ways to leverage technologies like AI, including generative AI and agentic AI, alongside cloud capabilities. This shift empowers service providers to drastically lower their total cost of ownership, accelerate time to value, and ultimately focus on driving new revenue streams through innovative services instead of just maintaining infrastructure.
The Google Cloud Autonomous Network Operations framework, combined with Nokia’s deep experience in packet core and network data offers communication service providers customers (CSPs) with comprehensive understanding of the network, help CSP customers shift from network operations to delivering value-added 5G services, leverage AI to accelerate towards autonomous operations.
Digital Twins
In this talk Google Cloud experts Anoop Vetteh, Senior Director of Products for Cloud Networking and Pratibha Suryadevara, VP of Engineering for Cloud Databases unveil Google Cloud’s Autonomous Network Operations framework, which enables communication service providers to leverage AI to enhance service reliability, proactively detect and resolve network issues, and turn fragmented data into value.
At its core, a real-time “network digital twin” is built on Google Spanner, which provides a globally consistent and infinitely scalable data platform. This digital twin ingests vast amounts of data from the entire network, enabling detailed historical querying for root cause analysis.
Advanced AI and machine learning models, specifically Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), then leverage this data to learn normal network behavior and instantly detect anomalies with high precision. This integrated approach allows operators to shift from reactive troubleshooting to proactive and predictive network management, ultimately leading to more reliable, efficient, and resilient services for their customers.
