Monday, February 27, 2017

Nokia and Sprint demonstrate massive MIMO at #MWC17

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Nokia and Sprint demonstrate massive MIMO at #MWC17

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  • Joint demonstration is the first by a U.S. operator to use massive MIMO for TDD-LTE spectrum with 64T64R
  • Massive MIMO demonstration uses multiple commercial devices and Nokia's newly launched 4.9G AirScale Massive MIMO Adaptive Antenna

 

27 February 2017

 

Barcelona, Spain - At Mobile World Congress, Nokia and Sprint are demonstrating the benefits of massive MIMO, showcasing how this technology can boost cell capacity by eight times compared to 4G LTE. The joint demonstration, showcased at Nokia's booth, makes Sprint the first U.S. operator to demonstrate massive MIMO for TDD-LTE spectrum with 64T64R, for both the downlink and uplink on an existing LTE frequency. Massive MIMO, a key element of 5G, can enable LTE network performance well beyond 1Gbps.

 

Nokia's newly launched AirScale massive MIMO Adaptive Antenna is part of the company's 4.9G technology, which provides significant increases in capacity, lower latency and several Gigabits of speed-per-second on the path to 5G. The AirScale massive MIMO Adaptive Antenna is a milestone, driving capacity increases for megacity deployments and service continuity with 5G. The Mobile World Congress demonstration uses 3D Beamforming software to deliver throughput gains of up to eightfold uplink and fivefold downlink. Eight commercially available devices operating on Sprint's 2.5 GHz TDD-LTE band 41 spectrum will be used.

 

Massive MIMO takes MIMO technology and scales it up, using 64T64R as compared to 2T2R/4T4R/8T8R in a typical 4G LTE network, but in a relatively compact commercial form. These antennas, attached to a base station, focus the transmission and reception of signal energy into small regions of space. This provides new levels of spectral efficiency and throughput, and allows data consumption from more users in a dense area without requiring more radio spectrum or causing interference. As such, massive MIMO is one of the key elements of 5G that delivers the needed high capacity, especially in the most densely populated locations such as city centers and high-rise buildings.

 

Günther Ottendorfer, chief operating officer of Technology at Sprint, said: "Massive MIMO is a critical part of our strategy to increase the capacity of our LTE Plus network today, and in the future, it will be a key element of our 5G network. Working with Nokia to deliver massive MIMO is a competitive advantage for Sprint because it is more easily deployed on 2.5 GHz spectrum due to the smaller form factor of the radios, and it's an important innovation that will take advantage of our deep spectrum holdings." 

 

Ricky Corker, head of North America at Nokia, said: "Nokia's massive MIMO technology is another proof point of our innovative work with Sprint in helping it define a long-term solution to provide service continuity for 5G. The significant cell capacity massive MIMO offers is why the technology will play a central role in 5G. Sprint can keep delivering the capacity its customers need, both now and in the future."

 

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In September 2016, Nokia announced a path to 5G that allows operators to take advantage of major increases in speed and capacity where and when they need it using 4.5G, 4.5G Pro and 4.9G technologies.

 

Today's demonstration builds on the Sprint and Nokia 5G demonstration conducted in June 2016 in Santa Clara, California - the first public 5G demonstration in the U.S.

 

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Sunday, February 26, 2017

Nokia debuts expanded portfolio of consumer digital health products and solutions

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Nokia debuts expanded portfolio of consumer digital health products and solutions

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  • Award-winning Withings line launches under the Nokia brand in summer 2017
  • Updates to Health Mate App and launch of HIPAA-compliant Patient Care Platform will help individuals and medical professionals achieve better healthcare outcomes

 

 

26 February 2017

 

Barcelona, Spain - Mobile World Congress - The award-winning Withings ecosystem of connected health products will launch under the iconic Nokia brand in early summer 2017, including connected scales, trackers, blood pressure monitors, thermometers and home cameras, bringing beautifully designed devices to the global consumer market. At the same time Nokia will also unveil a redesigned Health Mate application.

Nokia's proven, medical-grade connected health products will also extend further into the healthcare system through the launch of the company's Patient Care Platform, enabling physicians and patients to manage chronic conditions such as hypertension.

 

"Nokia is a powerful global brand that is synonymous with innovation, connectivity and great design," said Cedric Hutchings, VP of Digital Health, Nokia. "Withings joined Nokia because we share a vision to inspire individuals to take control of their own health. With the full power of a brand recognized for trust, reliability and quality, we will reach more people and impact more lives to help the human family be healthier together."

 

Redesigned Health Mate Application

Health Mate is at the center of the digital health ecosystem and collects data from scales, trackers and other connected devices in one place to provide a 360-degree view of health. Coinciding with the product rebrand, the Health Mate application will undergo a redesign for an improved user experience. The redesigned app will make it easier to add devices, share progress with family members, and will introduce new in-depth coaching programs. The coaching programs will take users on an eight-week journey to achieve a health goal along with personalized experiences to better manage health and wellbeing.

 

New Patient Care Platform Brings Patients and Medical Professionals Closer Together

Nokia will also roll out the company's HIPAA-compliant Patient Care Platform designed to transform the relationship between patients and healthcare professionals. The new platform will give doctors and care teams the power to remotely monitor patients with their smart devices to help prevent and manage chronic conditions and drive timely and targeted patient care to avoid unnecessary office visits and hospitalizations. The platform is being used by the National Health Service in the UK in a 69,000-person study to better understand hypertension and the role of remote monitoring in lowering hypertension rates.

 

The new Nokia branded connected health devices will be available early Summer 2017 via Nokia's website and retail channels including Amazon, Best Buy US, Best Buy Canada, Bed Bath & Beyond, Target, FNAC in France, John Lewis in the UK and Saturn in Germany. The redesigned Health Mate application will coincide with the rebrand.

 

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Nokia at Mobile World Congress: Delivering on its strategy to lead in 5G, IoT and cloud, tap new growth markets #MWC17

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Nokia at Mobile World Congress: Delivering on its strategy to lead in 5G, IoT and cloud, tap new growth markets #MWC17

26 February 2017

 

Barcelona, Spain - Nokia today outlined how the rapid execution of its new strategy is delivering industry-leading innovation for communication service providers in network speed, agility and efficiency, while broadening the company's footprint in faster-growing areas including software and the utilities and transport markets.

 

On the eve of Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Nokia's launches of solutions covering 5G, the Internet of Things (IoT), software and cloud underscored the breadth and strength of a product portfolio bolstered by the acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent in 2016.

 

"Nokia comes to Mobile World Congress this year with a bigger and fully end-to-end portfolio to sell, and with groundbreaking innovations to share," Nokia President and CEO Rajeev Suri said.

 

"All of this is underpinned by an organization squarely focused on the execution of our strategy to lead in high-performance networks with communication service providers, expand to new verticals, build a strong standalone software business and create new business and licensing opportunities in the consumer ecosystem," he said.

 

New products like 5G FIRST, announced today at the company's press and analyst event in Barcelona, show Nokia's innovation strength to deliver differentiated products that connect not only millions of users but interconnect billions of things to create what Nokia calls the 'global nervous system,' Suri added.

 

Showing the way in 5G and IoT

5G FIRST, the industry's first commercial 5G product and comprised of Nokia's AirScale radio access platform, helps customers prepare for 5G-ready architectures that cover core, software-defined networking, cloud and more. Nokia and Intel will collaborate on commercial deployments later in 2017 using the Intel® 5G Modem. 5G FIRST cements Nokia's strong position with communication service providers, helping them transition to new applications that will benefit from the low-latency and high data rates offered by 5G.

 

Reflecting those transition efforts, Suri announced at the press and analyst event that Nokia had won a three-year contract from Telefonica to boost the performance of its 4G network in London as data demand grows. The deal includes Nokia 4.5G Pro technology, powered by the Nokia AirScale Radio Access portfolio, Nokia Flexi Zone small cells, the Nokia NetAct network management system, Nokia Traffica real-time network analytics and Nokia Global Services.

 

Nokia's recent launch of WING, the worldwide IoT network grid, is aimed at providing a full-service model offering IoT connectivity across different technologies to manage a client's IoT connectivity needs and assets, such as connected cars, as they move around the globe. It follows the launch of a new wireless router to bring electricity distribution networks into the IoT era and help utilities reliably and securely connect and manage the proliferation of field devices as more smart power grids are deployed.

 

Those efforts show how Nokia is expanding into vertical markets like energy, transportation, public safety and Webscales (big Internet companies). Furthering the momentum in the vertical space, Suri cited a contract win with Infraestruturas de Portugal to provide a mission-critical communications network to the country's national railway infrastructure operator; a high-speed fiber optic network win with Xiaomi; and a demonstration with Qualcomm and GE of a private LTE network for the Industrial Internet of Things market.

 

Momentum in Cloud, software, and licensing

Nokia's recently launched Cloud Packet Core enables fixed and wireless technologies to be used together or individually to drive ultra-broadband and IoT service delivery in multiple verticals, including enterprise. Nokia has also enhanced its Intelligent Management Platform for All Connected Things platform, or IMPACT, with new IoT features such as video analytics.

 

The improved offering highlights Nokia's progress in delivering on its third strategic focus area of building a strong standalone software business and taking its largely network-agnostic software assets beyond mobile customers and into fixed, cable, and new vertical markets. Earlier this month, Nokia announced plans to buy Comptel to boost its software portfolio and go-to-market capabilities.

 

At MWC Nokia will demonstrate recently acquired Deepfield analytics technology, which further bolsters its software offering to communication service providers, cable operators, cloud, Webscales and technological extra-large enterprises. Using automation, Deepfield technology can identify and track around 30 000 popular cloud applications and services to help networks quickly adapt to changes in application demand and traffic patterns.

 

Nokia's efforts to create new business and licensing opportunities in the consumer space - the fourth pillar of its refreshed strategy - are also leading to fresh and important developments. HMD Global, Nokia's exclusive brand licensee for phones and tablets, will be making announcements later today.

 

Nokia at MWC

Nokia's presence at MWC involves the launch of 22 products and services, along with over 60 product and service demonstrations at the Nokia Experience Center in Hall 3, stand 3A10. The demonstrations include several related to 5G, some involving racecars and robots. Nokia and China Mobile, the world's biggest mobile operator by subscribers, will have a joint demo of tele-health services and show how 5G products and services can be integrated in different vertical industries.

 

 

Nokia will also give its perspective on a variety of important issues, including a keynote speech by Suri on enabling the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Nokia Chief Strategy Officer Kathrin Buvac will discuss the path from 4G to 5G; and Marcus Weldon, President of Nokia Bell Labs and Corporate Chief Technology Officer, will discuss the future of technology and how the 5G era will transform many dimensions of human life. Be sure to follow the events, speakers and launches via social media on Twitter @Nokia and #MWC17.

 

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Nokia Mobile World Congressissa: etenee strategiassaan johtaa 5G:ssä, esineiden internetissä ja pilvipalveluissa, tarttunut mahdollisuuksiin uusilla, nopeasti kasvavilla markkinoilla #MWC17

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Nokia Mobile World Congressissa: etenee strategiassaan johtaa 5G:ssä, esineiden internetissä ja pilvipalveluissa, tarttunut mahdollisuuksiin uusilla, nopeasti kasvavilla markkinoilla #MWC17

26.2.2017

 

Barcelona, Espanja - Nokia kertoi tänään yhtiön uuden strategian toteuttamisen edenneen nopeasti, minkä myötä  yhtiö pystyy tarjoamaan viestintäpalvelujen tarjoajille toimialan johtavia innovaatioita verkon nopeudessa, ketteryydessä ja tehokkuudessa. Samalla Nokia on laajentanut jalansijaansa nopeasti kasvavilla alueilla kuten ohjelmistot, julkiset palvelut ja kuljetus.

 

Mobile World Congress -tapahtuman aattona Barcelonassa Nokia julkisti ratkaisuja 5G:n, esineiden internetin, ohjelmistojen ja pilvipalveluiden alueilla. Julkistukset ovat osoitus yhtiön laajasta sekä kilpailukykyisestä tuotevalikoimasta, joka vahvistui entisestään vuonna 2016 tehdyn Alcatel-Lucent-kaupan myötä.

 

"Nokia esittelee tämän vuoden Mobile World Congress -tapahtumassa entistä laajemman ja kokonaisvaltaisen tuotevalikoimansa sekä mullistavia innovaatioita", sanoi Nokian toimitusjohtaja Rajeev Suri.

 

"Kaiken tämän perustana on strategiamme toteuttamiseen tiiviisti keskittynyt organisaatiomme. Strategiamme on olla johtava huipputehokkaiden verkkojen toimittaja viestintäpalveluiden tarjoajille, laajentaa myyntiämme uusille rinnakkaisille markkinoille, rakentaa vahva ja itsenäinen ohjelmistoliiketoiminta sekä luoda uutta liiketoimintaa ja lisensointimahdollisuuksia kuluttajaekosysteemissä", hän jatkoi.

 

"Lehdistö- ja analyytikkotilaisuudessamme Barcelonassa tänään julkistamamme tuotteet, kuten 5G FIRST, osoittavat Nokian innovaatiokyvyn erikoistuneiden tuotteiden tarjoamisessa. Tuotteiden, jotka yhdistävät miljoonien käyttäjien lisäksi miljardeja esineitä muodostaen 'maailmanlaajuisen hermoston', kuten Nokia sitä kutsuu", Suri jatkoi .

 

Tiennäyttäjä 5G:ssä ja esineiden internetissä

5G FIRST on toimialan ensimmäinen kaupallinen 5G-kokonaisratkaisu, ja se hyödyntää Nokian AirScale -verkkotukiasemaa. 5G FIRST auttaa asiakkaita valmistautumaan 5G-valmiisiin arkkitehtuureihin, jotka kattavat muun muassa runkoverkon, ohjelmisto-ohjatut verkot ja pilvipalvelut. Nokia ja Intel tekevät yhteistyötä ratkaisun kaupallisessa käyttöönotossa myöhemmin vuonna 2017 hyödyntäen Intel® 5G Modem -tuotetta. 5G FIRST lujittaa Nokian entisestään vahvaa asemaa viestintäpalvelujen tarjoajien keskuudessa ja auttaa heitä siirtymään käyttämään uusia sovelluksia, jotka hyötyvät 5G:n mukanaan tuomasta lyhyestä viiveestä ja suurista datanopeuksista.

 

Nokia julkisti äskettäin maailmanlaajuisen esineiden internetin grid-verkko WINGin, joka tarjoaa esineiden internetin vaatimat yhteydet kokonaispalveluna tukien eri teknologioita sekä vastaten asiakkaiden esineiden internetiä koskeviin erilaisiin tarpeisiin ja käyttötarkoituksiin kuten ympäri maailman liikkuvat itseohjautuvat autot. Nokia on myös julkaissut uudenlaisen langattoman reitittimen tuodakseen sähköjakeluverkot esineiden internetin aikaan ja auttaakseen julkisten palveluiden alueen toimijoita luotettavasti ja turvallisesti yhdistämään sekä hallitsemaan kasvavaa kenttälaitteiden määrää, kun yhä enemmän älykkäitä sähköverkkoja otetaan käyttöön.

 

Nämä toimet osoittavat, miten Nokia laajentaa toimintaansa rinnakkaisille markkinoille kuten energia, kuljetus, yleinen turvallisuus ja suuret internettoimijat. Suri kertoi lisäksi tänään, että Nokia on valittu toimittamaan kriittinen viestintäverkko Portugalin suurimmalle rautatieverkostoyhtiölle Infraestruturas de Portugalille, ja että Nokia on valittu toimittamaan Xiaomille huippunopea kuituoptiikkaverkko. Tämän lisäksi Nokia, Qualcomm ja GE demoavat yksityistä teollisen esineiden internetin markkinalle tarkoitettua LTE-verkkoa.

 

Edistystä pilvipalveluissa, ohjelmistoissa ja lisensoinnissa

Nokia päivitti äskettäin Cloud Packet Core -ratkaisuaan, joka mahdollistaa kiinteiden ja langattomien teknologioiden yhteis- tai erilliskäytön erittäin nopeiden laajakaistayhteyksien ja esineiden internetin palveluiden varmistamiseksi palveluntarjoajille ja useille rinnakkaisille markkinoille, mukaan lukien yritysasiakkaat. Nokia on myös päivittänyt Intelligent Management Platform for All Connected Things -alustaansa (IMPACT) uusilla esineiden internetin ominaisuuksilla kuten videoanalytiikka.

 

Entistä ehompi tuotevalikoima korostaa Nokian edistymistä kolmannessa strategisessa avainalueessaan vahvan itsenäisen ohjelmistoliiketoiminnan rakentamisessa sekä yhtiön pääosin verkkotyypistä riippumattomien ohjelmistoratkaisujensa tuomisessa muidenkin kuin mobiiliverkkoasiakkaiden saataville. Näihin kuuluvat esimerkiksi kiinteän verkon asiakkaat, kaapeliasiakkaat ja uudet rinnakkaiset markkinat. Aiemmin tässä kuussa Nokia julkisti suunnitelmansa ostaa Comptel vahvistaakseen ohjelmistotuotevalikoimaansa ja go-to-market-valmiuksiaan.

 

Mobile World Congress -tapahtumassa Nokia esittelee äskettäin hankkimansa Deepfieldin analytiikkateknologiaa. Deepfieldin teknologian avulla Nokia pystyy laajentamaan entisestään ohjelmistotarjontaansa viestintäpalveluiden tarjoajille, kaapelioperaattoreille, pilvipalveluiden tarjoajille, suurille internettoimijoille ja teknologian suuryrityksille. Automaatiota hyödyntämällä Deepfieldin teknologia pystyy identifioimaan ja seuraamaan noin 30 000:ta suosittua pilvisovellusta ja -palvelua ja auttamaan verkkoja sopeutumaan nopeasti muutoksiin sovelluskysynnässä ja liikennevirroissa.

 

Nokian toimet uuden liiketoiminnan ja lisensointimahdollisuuksien luomiseksi kuluttajamarkkinoilla yhtiön uuden strategian neljännen osion mukaisesti, ovat myös johtamassa uusiin merkittäviin kehitysaskeliin. Puhelimia ja tabletteja Nokian tavaramerkillä yksinoikeudella valmistava HMD Global tulee tekemään julkistuksia myöhemmin tänään.

 

Nokia Mobile World Congress -tapahtumassa

Nokia julkaisee Mobile World Congress -tapahtumassa 22 tuotetta ja palvelua ja demoaa yli 60:ta tuotetta ja palvelua Nokia Experience Centerissä, joka sijaitsee hallissa 3, osasto 3A10. Esillä on useita 5G-demoja sekä lisäksi esimerkiksi kilpa-autoihin ja robotiikkaan liittyviä demoja. Nokia ja China Mobile, maailman suurin mobiilioperaattori liittymäasiakkaiden määrällä mitattuna, demoavat yhdessä etäterveydenhoidon palveluja sekä näyttävät miten 5G-tuotteet ja -palvelut voidaan integroida eri rinnakkaisille toimialoille.

 

Nokia jakaa tapahtumassa myös näkemyksensä useista tärkeistä aiheista. Toimitusjohtaja Suri puhuu muun muassa neljännen teollisen vallankumouksen tekemisestä mahdolliseksi, Nokian strategiajohtaja Kathrin Buvac puhuu siirtymisestä 4G:stä 5G:hen sekä Nokia Bell Labsin johtaja ja Nokian teknologiajohtaja Marcus Weldon keskustelee tulevaisuuden teknologioista, ja siitä miten 5G-aikakausi tulee muuttamaan monia asioita elämissämme. Tapahtumia, puheita ja julkistuksia voi seurata sosiaalisen median kautta Twitterissä @Nokia ja #MWC17.

 

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Nokia supplies Xiaomi with high-speed fiber optic network to interconnect its data centers and create a 'private cloud'

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Nokia supplies Xiaomi with high-speed fiber optic network to interconnect its data centers and create a 'private cloud'

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  • Nokia 1830 Photonic Service Switch to connect 7 Xiaomi data centers in the Beijing region with a high-capacity, reliable and agile optical network
  • The network will enable the Chinese electronics and Internet giant to enhance its operations and offer higher-speed, higher-quality Internet services to its subscribers

26 February 2017

 

Espoo, Finland - Nokia is providing Xiaomi, a leading electronics manufacture and Internet service provider in China, with a state-of-the-art fiber optic network to link 7 data centers in the Beijing region. The new network will enable the fast-growing company to reduce bottlenecks in its data transport network and bring higher-speed, lower latency Internet services to its customers.

 

For this project, Nokia is providing Xiaomi with its data center interconnect (DCI) solution, based on the company's 1830 Photonic Service Switch (PSS) and managed by the Network Services Platform. The 1830 PSS is a high-performance Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) platform that delivers the capacity, security and control required for enterprise data center networks. Nokia's DCI solution is enabling Xiaomi to tie together its data centers to effectively establish a private cloud that it can use to support its internal data management needs. 

 

This agreement builds on Nokia's substantial track-record providing DCI solutions to large enterprises such as financial institutions, healthcare providers and 'webscale' companies. The project also highlights the growing momentum behind Nokia's strategy to expand its customer base to organizations outside of the traditional telecommunications sphere.

 

Drazen Lukic, head of China IP and Optical Networks Business Group at Nokia, said: "As large enterprises in China and around the world look to take advantage of the benefits of private cloud, Nokia's data center interconnect solution offers an ideal way of bringing together geographically distributed assets to form a single, high-performance cloud. This initiative is enabling Xiaomi to maximize network capacity, address fast-growing traffic demands and enjoy the flexibility of the cloud with the security, reliability and performance of a private network."

 

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Nokia heralds 5G era with commercial end-to-end 5G FIRST #MWC17

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Nokia heralds 5G era with commercial end-to-end 5G FIRST #MWC17

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  • Nokia 5G FIRST end-to-end solution incorporates AirScale and AirFrame technology, including AirScale massive MIMO Adaptive Antenna, Cloud Packet Core and mobile transport to bring new capabilities to operators
  • 5G Acceleration Services to allow operators to design and implement 5G uses in their multi-vendor, multi-technology environments
  • With 5G FIRST, operators can capitalize on early adopter specifications to bring new 5G capabilities to homes, offices, sports or special event venues and industrial plants
  • Nokia and Intel will collaborate on commercial deployments later in 2017 using the Intel® 5G Modem
  • 5G FIRST based on industry specifications defined by the Verizon 5G Technology Forum ecosystem in which Nokia is a key member and is the basis of 5G service pilots being conducted by Verizon in 11 US cities


26 February, 2017

 

Barcelona, Spain - Nokia has developed a solution that will allow operators to rapidly address the huge demands of connected people and industries. Nokia 5G FIRST comprises its radio access network (RAN) including Nokia AirScale massive MIMO Adaptive Antennas, packet core and mobile transport solutions as well as a full service offer using Intel® architecture and the Intel® 5G modem for initial deployments starting in 2017.

 

With the introduction of 5G FIRST operators will gain a first-to-market advantage based on early specifications. In addition Nokia will use the lessons learned through real-world deployment to contribute to final 3GPP standardization of the technology.

 

While each operator has its own timeline for moving to 5G, some leading providers are eager to take advantage of the extremely high capacity and low latency connectivity it promises to deliver. To meet early-adopter demands Nokia will make its commercial 5G FIRST end-to-end solution available in the second half of 2017.

 

The radio access network components of 5G FIRST comprise new Nokia massive MIMO Adaptive Antennas for 3.5 GHz, 4.5 GHz, 28 GHz and 39 GHz frequency bands, the AirScale System Module, AirScale cloud RAN technology and software. Nokia has upgraded its AirScale and AirFrame platforms to 5G based on specifications developed by the KT Special Interests Group (KT SIG) and Verizon 5G Technology Forum and the platforms will be adapted to 3GPP as standards develop.

 

Leveraging Nokia's end-to-end network capabilities, 5G FIRST also incorporates the multi-access Nokia Cloud Packet Core and the Nokia Shared Data Layer as part of a cloud-native core architecture to deliver the flexibility, massive scalability and performance operators need to rapidly and cost-effectively deliver 5G services. A comprehensive array of mobile transport offerings from Nokia address the critical capacity, reliability and latency requirements of the 5G era.

 

Nokia will work with operators to meet their customers' unique needs. Leveraging its long history of Nokia Global Services and Bell Labs Consulting expertise, the company has extended its 5G Acceleration Services to include 5G transformation consulting, 5G phase one network design and 5G cross-domain architecture services.

 

5G FIRST is underpinned by technical specifications outlined by the Verizon 5G Technology Forum ecosystem. As a proofpoint, Nokia is working with Verizon and Intel to deliver advanced 5G services to homes in select Verizon markets such as Dallas, enabling next-generation video and entertainment services or other applications in the future, such as remote, in-home healthcare.

 

Ed Chan, Senior Vice President- Technology Strategy and Planning at Verizon, said: "Leveraging the Verizon 5GTF partnership specification, Nokia's 5G FIRST will accelerate the commercialization of 5G services to our customers. We are excited to partner with Nokia to bring 5G to the pre-commercial pilot cities in 2017."

 

Samih Elhage, President of Mobile Networks at Nokia, said: "We are able to leverage our breadth of expertise to deliver a true end-to-end 5G FIRST network and services solution. Working with operators such as Verizon we can help them tailor deployments to meet their own customers' unique demands and capitalize first on the opportunities this will bring. And we can leverage the technology to work with industries to identify new uses for 5G now under the 5G community program which will in turn open up even more opportunities for our operator customers."

 

Asha Keddy, Vice President and General Manager of Next Generation Standards, Intel Communications and Devices Group, at Intel, said: "5G marks an historic inflection point for the industry, and early investments in cloud and core networks, radio technologies and compute platforms are fundamental for realizing the transformative potential of 5G. Nokia's adoption of the recently announced global Intel 5G Modem for use in its upcoming platform called 5G FIRST is a great example our innovative collaboration and progress in helping operators accelerate 5G tests and commercial deployments."

 

Malik Saadi, Managing Director and Vice President, Strategic Technology of ABI Research said: "Nokia 5G FIRST features all fundamental building blocks that are necessary for a 5G deployment. The technology will allow operators to bulletproof their 5G strategies/implementations even before standardization has been finalized."

 

As a next step in a new technology collaboration with Intel, Nokia will leverage the Intel 5G modem* for initial deployments of 5G FIRST to deliver ultra-broadband to the home using fixed wireless access as an alternative to existing fiber deployments.  

 

Nokia will continue to expand development of 5G fixed and mobile applications working with companies in the 5G community as part of the ng Connect program, which brings innovative companies together to collaborate on solution concepts, business models and market trials. The 5G FIRST solution will be made available for testing by operators and third parties in Nokia's 5G Innovation City initiative in Espoo, Finland and New Jersey, USA.

 

At Mobile World Congress 2017, Nokia is conducting a series of live demonstrations including:

  • 5G home experience demonstrations showing delivery of HD TV with Intel and multi-player virtual reality gaming
  • 5G event experience with Nokia Bell Labs showing live HD feeds of a sports game to thousands with the ability to see close-ups, instant replays and augmented reality
  • 5G industry experience with Nokia Bell Labs using 5G to improve factory workflow automation via control of machines and real-time analysis of sensors, increasing safety, security and efficiency

 

Resources

 

* Intel® 5G Modem - supporting 5G operation in both sub-6 GHz and mmWave bands and Intel UE - 5G sub-6 GHz RFIC and the mature 28 GHz 5G mmWave RFIC; 2x4 or 4x4 antenna arrays, Up to 800MHz channel bandwidth

 

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