Nokia Announces Speech-Based AI Network Management Tools
Nokia unveiled its cutting-edge AI solutions amid its plans to scale up networks for the industrial metaverse
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Published: November 1, 2023
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Nokia Bell Labs
announced on Wednesday a novel natural language processing (NLP) solution for configuring networks using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).
Developed by Nokia Bell Labs’ UNEXT research initiative, the company’s Natural-Language Network is completely transforming how networks operate. This is crucial as the Espoo, Finland-based firm scales up its network infrastructure amid the rise of the
industrial metaverse.
The company revealed the new digital tools at the Brooklyn 6G Summit in New York, NY, which took place from 31 Oct to 2 November.
At the event, it stated the new NLP solution can configure networks using prompts and speech. It will also understand user intentions and operate autonomously using its AI neural networking.
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Using Natural-Language Networks, Nokia can streamline network management with AI, moving away from complex setups to more agile, responsive systems to serve the end user.
Artificial intelligence will power the networks, allowing service providers to maintain operations with rapid configuration capabilities. These intelligent systems will also monitor and learn from previous prompts, responses, and other data to optimise networks after each successful request, the company explained.
As the networking tool builds its neural networks across the infrastructure, it can operate without human intervention.
Csaba Vulkan, Network Systems Automation Research Leader, Nokia Bell Labs, said in a statement,
“Operators won’t need to explore technical catalogues or complex API descriptions when they configure networks. Instead, a simple statement like ‘Optimize the network at X location for Y service’ will work. Those requests could be used to configure a wireless network in a factory for robot automation or optimize networks at a concert for a barrage of social media uploads”
Thank You, Who’s UNEXT?
Nokia Bell Labs created the
UNEXT research initiative to support the company’s efforts to innovate its network infrastructure. This has become a key focus of the company as it focuses on the industrial metaverse, which is currently digitally transforming global enterprises with massive results.
According to the company, UNEXT draws inspiration from UNIX, the groundbreaking operating system (OS) Bell Labs invented in the 1960s with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and General Electric (GE).
The firm said in a press release that “UNEXT will redefine network software and systems the same way UNIX reshaped computing.”
It aims to achieve this by integrating a host of processes in the telecoms network, effectively evolving the network into an operating system.
Azimeh Sefidcon, Head of Network Systems and Security Research, Nokia Bell Labs, added,
“Natural-Language Networks offer a sneak peek into one of the many capabilities of UNEXT. Reducing the complexity of network management fits squarely with UNEXT’s goal of extending the reach of networked systems by breaking down barriers that prevent those systems from interoperating”
AI to Become Central to Next-Gen Networks
The announcement comes at a critical time when Nokia aims to
scale-up its network capacities amid a massive surge in network demand. Many of the world’s tech innovations are now forcing telecoms to rethink their strategies in infrastructural development and solutions, as the former puts exponential pressure on 4G and 5G networks.
Unprecedented demand for telecoms bandwidth, speed, and reliability have not only come from consumers and their handheld devices like smartphones and tablets, but also from a growing need for low-latency, high-bandwidth, and high-speed networks to facilitate immersive tools.
Recent global innovations in virtual, augmented, and mixed reality at the consumer, enterprise, and industry are expected to place enormous pressure on
telecoms infrastructure leading up to 2030 and beyond.
Thomas Hainzel, Head of Digital Industries Evolution & Partnerships, Nokia,
explained to XR Today the challenges that Nokia faces amid the rise of multiple network-intensive metaverses in Industry 4.0.
Nokia is currently developing tools across the technology stack like the Internet of Things, AI, and cloud and edge computing, to secure network integrity and meet sustainability pledges amid future environmental challenges.
World Leaders Focus on AI Safety
However, as companies innovate their offerings with AI, governments are developing their roles in ensuring the safety of their respective citizens, at the national and global level.
Nokia’s solution comes just days after United States President Joe Biden signed the
Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence.
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