Nokia and Google Cloud expand partnership to deploy Gemini AI agents for telecom network automation

Nokia Google Cloud Partnership Brings AI-Powered Network Management

Nokia and Google Cloud have expanded their collaboration to embed Google's Gemini models into the Nokia Assurance Center, marking a significant step toward fully automated telecom infrastructure 1

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. The Nokia Google Cloud partnership aims to help telecommunication providers lower operational costs, rapidly resolve network issues, and advance toward self-driving networks through intelligent automation. By developing six specialized Gemini AI agents, Nokia addresses a critical industry challenge: distinguishing genuine infrastructure problems from background noise to accelerate repairs and protect revenue.

Six Specialized AI Agents for Telecom Operations

Nokia is introducing six AI agents for telecom operations, each designed to manage specific tasks independently or collaborate to solve complex network problems. The router agent serves as the central orchestration layer, interpreting user intent and managing communication between other agents while ensuring compliance with operational guardrails 2

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. The event triage agent analyzes ongoing alarms and compares them against historical patterns to identify root causes and assess operational impact. Additional agents include the KPI selector agent for interpreting complex network performance metrics, the anomaly reasoner agent for investigating unusual network behavior to determine if deviations represent genuine issues or false alarms, and the action reasoner agent that matches active events against automation catalogs to provide remediation recommendations 1

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. A dashboard agent enables teams to generate visual analytics using natural language prompts.

Reducing Network Troubleshooting Times Through Automation

The autonomous network product suite promises to reduce network troubleshooting times by 50% to 80% by filtering false alarms, identifying root causes, and recommending corrective actions 1

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. Nokia developed these capabilities using Google Cloud's Agent Development Kit on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, which allowed the company to quickly develop smart conversational and routing paths leveraging Gemini's multimodal reasoning 2

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. The entire multi-agent framework runs seamlessly on standard Google Cloud compute and storage, deployed directly via tools like Kubernetes and Google Cloud Storage to ensure cost optimization and compatibility with existing customer environments.

Glass Box Autonomy Keeps Engineers in Control

Rather than removing operators from critical decision-making, Nokia's approach introduces what the company calls glass box autonomy 1

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. The action reasoner agent serves as an advisory layer, presenting confidence-based recommendations to human engineers who retain final approval over critical control points before fixes are automatically executed and logged 2

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. For low-risk, policy-approved scenarios, the same architecture supports completely closed-loop automation. "The AI era demands a new kind of network -- one that is programmable, AI-native, and able to operate at machine speed," said Vivek Jaiswal, senior vice president of Autonomous Networks at Nokia 1

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Deployment Timeline and Market Availability

The router and event triage agents are already fully functional 1

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. Nokia plans to launch the initial certified agent pack as a SaaS model on Google Cloud Marketplace in September 2026, allowing operators to deploy immediately and automate network operations 2

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. Additional agents will roll out through continuous software updates beginning in late 2026 and continuing throughout 2027, expanding capabilities across Nokia's broader network portfolio including Unified Inventory, Data Suite, and Orchestration applications. Live demonstrations of these telecom network automation capabilities will be showcased at DTW Ignite in Copenhagen from June 23-25, with a voice degradation use case at both the Google Cloud and Nokia booths, plus a multi-partner fiber-break automation simulation in the Innovation Zone 2

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. Sridhar Gollapudi, global telco market lead at Google Cloud, noted that "Agentic AI marks a fundamental shift in how telecommunications networks are managed, moving operators away from rigid templates to dynamic, goal-oriented automation" [1](https://www.benzinga.com/markets/tech/26/06/60024973/nokia-stock-gains-as-google-cloud-partnership-adds-gemini-ai-agents].