Nokia has launched two new software-as-a-service products to help customers improve their energy efficiency and manage smart devices. Credit: Martyn Williams Nokia has announced two new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings, aimed at helping communication service providers (CSPs) and enterprise customers reduce energy consumption across their networks and automate device management control for smart home devices. The first, dubbed Nokia Analytics Virtualization and Automation (AVA) for Energy SaaS, uses artificial intelligence to monitor network traffic and help reduce the amount of connectivity resources used during periods of low demand. It also looks to spot network anomalies and benchmark the energy efficiency of passive infrastructure, such as batteries and power supplies. Nokia says AVA for Energy SaaS can help CSPs achieve up to five-fold energy savings. The second, Nokia Home Device Management SaaS, is a device management platform for smart home devices. The vendor-agnostic tool allows CSP and enterprise customers to remotely monitor and manage fleets of smart home devices, including routers, Wi-Fi extenders, mesh nodes, video set top boxes, voice over IP access devices, and 4G/5G fixed wireless access devices. Nokia has also announced the commercial availability of Anomaly Detection SaaS, a machine learning-powered network anomaly detection tool which was first announced in November 2021. Rohit Mehra, group vice president for network and telecommunications at IDC, said that the announcements from Nokia are interesting enhancements that will help its customers improve their network operations. “Capabilities like energy efficiency monitoring are top of mind these days for operators and enterprises alike, as are issues pertaining to home device monitoring and management,” he told Network World. Mehra added that while it makes sense to be somewhat skeptical of the claims related to artificial intelligence or machine learning-powered platform enhancements, most service providers have now started to embrace a pragmatic approach to leveraging these types of capabilities to improve their security posture and network operations. Related content news Dell provides $150M to develop an AI compute cluster for Imbue Helping the startup build an independent system to create foundation models may help solidify Dell’s spot alongside cloud computing giants in the race to power AI. By Elizabeth Montalbano Nov 29, 2023 4 mins Generative AI news DRAM prices slide as the semiconductor industry starts to decline TSMC is reported to be cutting production runs on its mature process nodes as a glut of older chips in the market is putting downward pricing pressure on DDR4. By Sam Reynolds Nov 29, 2023 3 mins Flash Storage Technology Industry news analysis Cisco, AWS strengthen ties between cloud-management products Combining insights from Cisco ThousandEyes and AWS into a single view can dramatically reduce problem identification and resolution time, the vendors say. By Michael Cooney Nov 28, 2023 4 mins Network Management Software Cloud Computing opinion Is anything useful happening in network management? Enterprises see the potential for AI to benefit network management, but progress so far is limited by AI’s ability to work with company-specific network data and the range of devices that AI can see. By Tom Nolle Nov 28, 2023 7 mins Generative AI Network Management Software Podcasts Videos Resources Events NEWSLETTERS Newsletter Promo Module Test Description for newsletter promo module. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe