Nokia and Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison collaborate to enhance Indonesia’s 5G network and unlock AI-enabled services

    

Nokia and Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison collaborate to enhance Indonesia’s 5G network and unlock AI-enabled services

• Agreement supports low-and mid-band 5G rollout across Indosat’s network, serving customers nationwide
• Partnership accelerates new AI-driven services, digital experiences and sustainable growth across Indonesia
• AI-ready 5G network will enable AI-RAN architecture and AI Grid deployment in collaboration with NVIDIA, bringing AI and connectivity closer to every Indonesian

Espoo, Finland – Nokia and Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (Indosat or IOH) announced a partnership to modernize Indosat’s nationwide mobile network in Indonesia through the deployment of advanced 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) technologies. As a key technology partner, Nokia will support the rollout of low- and mid-band 5G to help build high-performance, AI-ready networks designed to deliver a more seamless, reliable, and responsive digital experience for customers.

 

More than a network upgrade, this collaboration reflects a shared ambition to bring customers closer to the digital experiences that matter most to them, from immersive entertainment and gaming to more reliable connectivity for work, learning, communication, and everyday digital activities. A stronger and more flexible network foundation will enable Indosat to serve customers better by anticipating their evolving digital needs while creating experiences that are more meaningful.

 

The deployment will enhance network capacity, performance, and coverage across Indonesia, while supporting Indosat’s long-term ambition to expand digital access more inclusively nationwide. The upgraded network will also enable advanced consumer and enterprise use cases across key sectors, including public services, industry, and digital services.

 

Unlocking AI-enabled services with NVIDIA

These joint activities will not only connect Indonesia but also build the digital infrastructure for the country’s next phase of growth. This agreement reflects a shared mission to turn connectivity into a platform for intelligence. AI-RAN provides the common architecture for combining connectivity and intelligence, and Nokia’s roadmap is built on that foundation with NVIDIA. With Nokia and NVIDIA already working with Indosat on AI-RAN, the companies are on track for the next milestone: moving from the first AI-RAN call completed at Mobile World Congress 2026 to field trials in Indonesia by the end of 2026. The collaboration will also support Nokia’s work on new AI algorithms designed to improve spectral efficiency on NVIDIA AI-RAN platforms, with those capabilities expected to be part of the upcoming field trials.

 

By combining its centralized AI factories and distributed AI-RAN infrastructure, Indosat is advancing its AI grid, creating a unified intelligence layer that distributes both AI and connectivity to millions of Indonesians while helping drive economic growth. Grounded in local AI innovation, the model is already accelerating practical applications in government services, healthcare, education, and agriculture, supported by the AI-RAN Innovation Center in Surabaya and the NVIDIA AI Technology Center ecosystem.

 

Justin Hotard, President and CEO of Nokia, said: “The next phase of network evolution will be defined by how well operators combine connectivity, intelligence and scale. Together with Indosat and NVIDIA, Nokia is helping build a network that can do exactly that — one that expands 5G, enables new AI-driven services and creates long-term value. This partnership reflects a broader shift in the industry, as operators invest in networks that deliver high performance at scale while supporting greater efficiency, new business models and digital growth.”

 

Vikram Sinha, President Director and CEO of Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison, said: “At Indosat, we continuously evolve to serve our customers #LebihBaik by understanding their needs more deeply and delivering experiences that truly matter to them. Together with Nokia and NVIDIA, we are building a reliable and AI-ready network foundation that will elevate connectivity and create a more seamless digital experience for every customer. This collaboration strengthens our readiness for the next phase of digital innovation while reinforcing our commitment to empowering Indonesia through inclusive and sustainable digital transformation.”

 

Ronnie Vasishta, SVP Telecoms, NVIDIA: “Indosat and Nokia are showing what it looks like when a 5G network becomes the platform for intelligence. By building on our AI-RAN work together and moving toward field trials in Indonesia, we are helping create an architecture where AI and connectivity can work side by side to improve efficiency, enable new applications and support digital transformation at scale.”

 

As part of the agreement, Nokia will deploy its latest Habrok and Pandion radio families, Levante basebands, Centralized RAN and advanced network management and automation platforms, enabling intelligent operations, improved energy efficiency and faster service innovation. Low‑band 5G will be introduced across the full network footprint, with mid‑band 5G covering approximately 80% of the network over the next three and a half years. AI-driven automation and energy-efficient technologies will improve operational efficiency and support a more sustainable and responsible approach to digital transformation, ensuring that technological advancement delivers real impact for businesses and the millions of Indonesians who rely on connectivity every day.

 

Nokia, Indosat and NVIDIA are demonstrating how 5G and AI can be delivered together to support digital inclusion across Indonesia’s diverse geography. This 5G expansion project provides the connectivity foundation for an AI Grid, while the AI-RAN roadmap creates a practical path to bring AI workloads closer to the network, to deliver new value for enterprises, public services and empower every Indonesian.

 

Multimedia, technical information and related news

Web Page: Advanced 5G

Web Page: Radio Access Networks

Blog: Nokia AI-RAN

Whitepaper: The value creating fusion of AI and RAN

Press Release: Nokia accelerates AI-RAN momentum with new partnerships driving path to AI-Native 6G  

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Nokia launches Deepfield Genome Shield security automation system to deliver proactive, network-wide DDoS protection for the AI era

    

 

Nokia launches Deepfield Genome Shield security automation system to deliver proactive, network-wide DDoS protection for the AI era

 

• Nokia Deepfield Genome Shield provides proactive, continuously updated, always-on network protection — moving beyond reactive approaches that cannot keep pace with modern, rapid multi-terabit DDoS attacks
• Solution is Nokia’s first dedicated AI-era security suite — protecting networks from AI-driven threats while delivering clean, continuously updated security telemetry that operator AI and ML systems increasingly rely on.
• Red Dot Technologies is among the first operators to deploy Genome Shield, addressing both inbound DDoS attacks and outbound threats from compromised subscriber devices within its network
  
  

 

09 June 2026 

 

Espoo, Finland – Nokia today announced the launch of Nokia Deepfield Genome Shield, the industry’s first security automation system that delivers proactive, always-on DDoS protection for telecommunications providers, hosting companies, internet exchange points, and cloud builders in the AI era. Genome Shield addresses the fundamental shift in DDoS threats driven by the emergence of residential proxy botnets, which now comprise approximately 200 million compromised devices worldwide.

The DDoS threat landscape has shifted over the past 12 months. Attacks now come from real subscriber devices, deliver multi-terabit bursts that last seconds to minutes, and rapidly rotate IPs across thousands of nodes. Residential proxy botnets — estimated at 250–600 Tbps - are used to dynamically leverage large numbers of residential users who are unaware their connections are used to generate evasive attacks impacting many national networks. Traditional scrubber-based diversion and reactive mitigation can’t respond quickly enough to these sub-minute attacks. Automated, AI-driven DDoS has industrialized the residential proxy supply chain used by botnets like Kimwolf, while AI-assisted code generation is accelerating the evolution of evasion techniques.

Nokia Deepfield Genome Shield introduces a new class of proactive, network-wide security automation that extends Deepfield Defender to address previously unaddressable use cases. The solution has been shaped through close engagement with customers and the wider security community as part of ongoing efforts to combat DDoS and botnet-driven threats. It shifts protection from reactive mitigation to proactive enforcement leveraging existing network infrastructure. Genome Shield aggregates continuously updated threat intelligence from multiple sources, including Nokia Deepfield Secure Genome® (spanning over five billion internet endpoints), GDTA telemetry, and Deepfield’s cyber range, where live malware and botnet command-and-control (C2s) generate real-time insights. All of this intelligence is compiled in Deepfield Defender into automated DDoS policies and enforced as a security shield across the network.

“Protecting our infrastructure from inbound DDoS attacks while managing compromised subscriber devices requires carrier-grade automation. By implementing Nokia Deepfield Genome Shield, we have transitioned from reactive, manual workflows to a proactive, unified security platform. Disrupting botnet command-and-control at the network edge, before attacks hit, ensures maximum uptime and clean traffic. This deployment guarantees that when clients connect to Reddot, they are choosing a network engineered for absolute security and peace of mind,” said Charlie Attoum, Network Infrastructure Director at Reddot.

“The past year has fundamentally changed DDoS security. Residential proxy botnets have invalidated 25 years of assumptions about how attacks work and how to defend against them. The hard problem today is maintaining dynamic, massive IP threat feeds and enforcing protection against them in real time, at network scale, continuously and automatically. Genome Shield is the industry's answer to that challenge. It combines several intelligence sources, including our unique cyber range and Secure Genome's visibility into more than five billion internet endpoints, with automated policy compilation and enforcement across the entire network. For the more than 1,000 hosting companies, service providers, and internet exchange points that face this new generation of threats, Genome Shield delivers the commercial, scalable answer,” said Jeff Smith, Vice-President and General Manager of Nokia Deepfield.

Genome Shield extends Deepfield Defender's existing DDoS countermeasure portfolio with network-wide automated enforcement, organized across four pillars: Botnet C2 Disruption, which blocks command-and-control communications so attacks cannot be launched; DDoS Policers, which suppress amplification and volumetric traffic through proactive rate limiting; Custom Policies, enabling user-defined rules via open APIs for easy integration; and Observability, providing dashboards for compromised devices, botnet endpoints, and emerging security trends.

Genome Shield requires Nokia Deepfield Defender and is compatible with both router-based edge mitigation and with the Nokia 7750 Defender Mitigation System (DMS) for dedicated L4-L7 DDoS scrubbing. It supports on-premises, cloud-based (SaaS), and hybrid deployment models with flexible pay-as-you-grow licensing.

Initial capabilities of Genome Shield have already been introduced within Nokia Deepfield Defender and are in use by customers today. Additional features will be rolled out throughout 2026. 

Multimedia, technical information and related news

Webpage:        Nokia Deepfield Defender

Webpage:        Nokia Deepfield Genome

Webpage:        Nokia Deepfield Genome Shield

Blog:                Herd immunity for the internet (by Jérôme Meyer)

Webpage:        Internet and security maps for network intelligence | Nokia

Webpage:        Deepfield Defender | Advanced DDoS Security by Nokia

Webpage:        Nokia 7750 Defender Mitigation System

Webpage:        Nokia FP Network Processor Technology

Webpage:        Nokia DDoS Security

Webpage:        Nokia Deepfield Global DDoS Threat Alliance (GDTA)

 

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