Nuage Networks
Nuage Networks is a Nokia business unit that provides Software Defined Networking (SDN) platforms for automated, policy-driven connectivity across data center, Wide Area Network (WAN), and cloud environments.
- SDN platforms for data center and cloud networking automation
- Virtualized network services for multi-tenant enterprise and service provider environments
- Policy-based network abstraction and microsegmentation for workload and application connectivity
- Integration with private, public, and hybrid cloud platforms for network orchestration
- Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) capabilities for branch, campus, and WAN connectivity under centralized control
More About Nuage Networks
Nuage Networks focuses on SDN for enterprises and communication service providers that require consistent, automated connectivity across data centers, branch networks, and multiple cloud platforms. Its platforms virtualize network functions and policies, allowing infrastructure teams to express intent at a higher level instead of configuring individual devices. The technology addresses multi-tenant environments, network segmentation, and secure workload connectivity, which are common requirements in large organizations and carrier networks.
The company’s offerings align with enterprise categories such as SDN for data centers (network virtualization), SD-WAN for branch and WAN connectivity (WAN edge networking), and network security policy enforcement (network security). Its platforms use overlay networking concepts, where virtual networks are decoupled from the underlying IP transport, and support integration with hypervisors and container platforms. Policy-based control and automation are central architectural elements, using centralized controllers that program distributed forwarding elements through standard protocols and APIs.
Nuage Networks technology is typically deployed in private data centers, telco cloud environments, and hybrid cloud architectures. Enterprises may use it to build a virtualized data center fabric that connects virtual machines, containers, and bare-metal workloads under a single policy framework. Service providers may use the same architecture to deliver managed SD-WAN and virtualized network services to enterprise customers, with multi-tenancy and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for different organizations and administrators.
The platforms interoperate with common routing and switching underlay networks and leverage industry protocols such as Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) and IPsec where applicable, while presenting an abstracted policy model to administrators. RESTful APIs and integration points support orchestration with cloud management platforms and Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, enabling network configurations to align with application deployment workflows. This approach places Nuage Networks offerings in marketplace taxonomies under SDN, SD-WAN, cloud networking, and network security policy management.
From a business and technical perspective, Nuage Networks addresses requirements such as consistent network policies across data centers and clouds, segmentation of tenants and applications, and centralized operations for distributed sites. Its alignment with Nokia allows integration with broader IP routing, optical, and telco cloud portfolios where needed, but the Nuage Networks software platforms themselves are positioned as overlay-based, multi-vendor solutions. Enterprise architects and infrastructure leaders generally evaluate Nuage Networks in the context of SDN and SD-WAN platforms for data center, WAN, and hybrid cloud networking.