Nokia is extending its longstanding partnership with Microsoft to accelerate network automation, announcing the development of an agentic, unified data foundation that supports faster, more reliable AI-driven operations for telecommunication providers. The collaboration combines Nokia Data Suite's ready-to-use telco data products with Microsoft Fabric's unified analytics, governance and AI capabilities, enabling intelligent, agent-based solutions across the network stack. Operators will be able to access high-quality, trusted data in minutes instead of weeks, simplifying complex data integration and significantly reducing time to insight.
Nokia extends Microsoft partnership with agentic, unified data foundation
Integrates Nokia Data Suite with Microsoft Fabric
Operators can access trusted data in minutes instead of weeks
Multi-vendor, cross-domain solution for hybrid and cloud infrastructures
Initial use cases include autonomous VoNR assurance and geo-experience
Solution available now with ongoing expansion of autonomous network use cases
"Nokia and Microsoft are bringing the right data, at the right time, for the right reason to telecom operators worldwide," said Vivek Jaiswal, Senior Vice President, Autonomous Networks at Nokia. "Together, we are helping networks evolve from static infrastructures into programmable, AI-native platforms."
Nokia Data Suite provides prebuilt, reusable telco data products with glass-box data quality controls and telco-specific semantic modeling, ensuring transparency, explainability and trust in AI-driven decisions. Microsoft Fabric delivers a unified data platform with OneLake storage, analytics tools and AI-native apps such as Microsoft 365 Copilot, Foundry and Power BI. By integrating these capabilities, operators can move from fragmented data environments to a more autonomous, scalable model. Nokia's data products can be provisioned on demand and seamlessly combined with Microsoft Fabric's enterprise, IT and third-party data sources, enabling broader AI use cases such as automated root-cause analysis and closed-loop operations.
The solution is designed for multi-vendor, cross-domain telecom environments and supports hybrid and cloud infrastructures, including on-premises deployments. Initial go-to-market examples include:
Autonomous VoNR assurance to detect and remedy service issues, where agents identify anomalies, run root cause analyses, and recommend actions with 360-degree observability
Geo-experience, which uses AI and machine learning to map RAN subscriber sessions to precise geographic locations, identify users experiencing degraded radio performance and pinpoint coverage or capacity hotspots
Predictive maintenance and fault management, where agents analyze historical and real-time data to anticipate network issues before they impact customers
Throughout the process, AI-driven operational assistants act as copilots for network engineers, providing contextual insights, recommended actions and automated workflow execution across complex, cross-domain environments.
"Telecom providers are ready to move AI from experimentation into everyday network operations, but that requires trusted data, strong governance and platforms that can scale," said Silvia Candiani, Corporate Vice President, Worldwide Telco & Media at Microsoft. "By bringing together Nokia Data Suite and Microsoft Fabric, we are creating a faster path to turn complex network data into actionable intelligence."
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