India, Sept. 21 -- Nokia and Microsoft are expanding their partnership to develop a unified data foundation aimed at accelerating AI-driven automation across telecom networks.

The companies are combining Nokia Data Suite with Microsoft Fabric to support agent-based network operations across multi-vendor and cross-domain environments. The initiative is focused on making network data more accessible to AI systems and enabling operators to move from isolated AI deployments towards more automated network operations.

Nokia said the combined platform can reduce the time needed to prepare and access trusted network data from several weeks to minutes. The companies are targeting applications including network assurance, radio access network (RA...