Google Cloud and Nokia today announced an expanded partnership to integrate Google's Gemini models into Nokia's network software suite, the Nokia Assurance Center. By developing six specialized AI agents built with Gemini, Google's most capable family of multimodal models, Nokia aims to help telecommunication providers lower operational costs, rapidly resolve network issues, and move toward fully automated, self-driving operations.

Modern networks generate increasingly complex volumes of data, and telecom providers face significant bottlenecks. Traditional management relies on manual troubleshooting that struggles to keep up with escalating alerts, often resulting in costly downtime. The partnership addresses these challenges by using agents to instantly process raw data, helping telecom providers distinguish critical infrastructure issues from background noise to accelerate repairs and protect revenue.

Vivek Jaiswal, senior vice president of Autonomous Networks at Nokia, stated that "The AI era demands a new kind of network—one that is programmable, AI-native, and able to operate at machine speed. With Gemini-powered agents integrated into Nokia's automation portfolio, we're helping telecom providers move beyond manual operations to maximize performance, ensure reliability, and find new efficiencies within their data."

Nokia is introducing six specialized agents, each designed to manage specific operational tasks independently or work together to solve complex network problems. These agents were developed using Google Cloud's Agent Development Kit on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. This framework allowed Nokia to quickly develop smart conversational and routing paths leveraging Gemini's multimodal reasoning. The entire multi-agent framework runs seamlessly on standard Google Cloud compute and storage, ensuring the solution remains cost-optimized, flexible, and compatible with existing customer environments.

Nokia's framework introduces "glass box autonomy," where 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. For low-risk, policy-approved scenarios, the architecture can also support completely closed-loop automation.

The router and event triage agents are already fully functional. When the platform officially launches as a SaaS model on the Google Cloud Marketplace in September 2026, operators will be able to deploy this initial starter pack of certified agents immediately. The remaining, more complex agents will be delivered through rolling software updates, expanding capabilities across Nokia's broader network portfolio beginning in late 2026 and continuing throughout 2027.

Sridhar Gollapudi, Global Telco Market Lead at Google Cloud, stated that "Agentic AI marks a fundamental shift in how telecommunications networks are managed, moving operators away from rigid templates to dynamic, goal-oriented automation. By applying Gemini's multimodal reasoning capabilities to complex data streams, this partnership helps operators to transition from manual workflows to a self-driving posture that lowers costs and optimizes resources globally."

Live demonstrations of these autonomous network agents will be on display at DTW Ignite in Copenhagen from June 23 to 25, with live voice degradation use cases shown at both the Google Cloud booth and the Nokia booth, as well as a multi-partner fiber-break automation simulation featured in the Innovation Zone.