Nokia announced plans to acquire Deepfield to extend Nokia's leadership in real-time, analytics-driven network and service automation.
Founded out of Michigan in 2011, Deepfield is a privately held company that provides real-time big data analytics to enterprises and service providers. In particularly, the company helps network operators (cable MSOs, Fiber/DSL access providers, transit/peering providers, and mobile operators) analyze network telemetry in one place, enabling multiple datasets to be correlated in real-time allowing different solutions for different organizational teams to co-exist on the same platform.
Nokia's service assurance and customer experience management portfolios would also leverage Deepfield's big data analytics, including per subscriber application performance, to automate actions that ensure ongoing service health and customer satisfaction.
Nokia plans to solve the network and service automation problem by coupling Deepfield big data analytics with the dynamic control capabilities of open SDN platforms, such as the Nokia Network Services Platform (NSP) and Nuage Networks Virtualized Services Platform (VSP).
Basil Alwan, President of Nokia's IP/Optical Networks Business Group
Combining Deepfield's cutting-edge analytics with Software Defined Networking techniques (SDN) will allow our customers to automate engineering and assurance processes while enhancing performance, utilization and security.
Craig Labovitz, founder and CEO of Deepfield
We are very pleased to join Nokia, a like-minded global leader in IP networking with shared values in network innovation. I look forward to leveraging the strength of Nokia's world-class customer, sales and support footprint to take our Deepfield technology worldwide.
