Muutokset Nokia Oyj:n omien osakkeiden omistuksessa

    

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28.2.2025 klo 17.00

Muutokset Nokia Oyj:n omien osakkeiden omistuksessa

 

Espoo – Nokia on tänään luovuttanut yhteensä 127 434 986 Nokia Oyj:n hallussa ollutta Nokian osaketta (NOKIA) Citibank, N.A.:lle, Nokian American Depositary Share -järjestelyn säilyttäjäpankille, jotta Citibank, N.A. vaihtoagentin (eng. Exchange Agent) ominaisuudessa toimittaisi ne American Depositary Shares -osaketalletustodistusten muodossa sellaisille Infinera Corporationin ("Infinera") osakkeenomistajille, jotka ovat pätevästi valinneet joko osakevastikkeen tai käteis- ja osakevastikkeen yhdistelmän Nokian Infineran hankinnan toteuttamisen yhteydessä. Kuten Nokia on aiemmin tiedottanut, Nokia on solminut sulautumissopimuksen ja -suunnitelman ("Sulautumissopimus") Neptune of America Corporationin ja Infineran kanssa 27.6.2024. 

Suunnattu osakeanti perustuu hallituksen 22.11.2024 tekemään päätökseen. Nokian osakkeen (NOKIA) merkintähinta on Nokian osakkeen (NOKIA) päätöskurssi Nasdaq Helsingissä sulautumisen toteutumispäivänä 28.2.2025. 

Nokia Oyj:n hallussa olevien omien osakkeiden lukumäärä luovutuksen jälkeen on 133 882 828.

Loput sulautumisvastikkeesta maksetaan Infineran osakkeenomistajille rahana. Nokia on tänään julkistanut erillisen Infineran hankinnan toteuttamista koskevan lehdistötiedotteen.

 

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B2B-teknologia- ja innovaatiojohtajana olemme tulevaisuuden aistivien, ajattelevien ja älykkäiden verkkoratkaisujen edelläkävijä. Johtoasemamme pohjautuu osaamiseemme kiinteissä sekä matkapuhelin- ja pilvipalveluverkoissa. Olemme luoneet arvoa immateriaalioikeuksilla ja pitkäaikaisella tutkimus- ja kehitystyöllä palkitun Nokia Bell Labsin johdolla jo 100 vuoden ajan.

 

Avoimeen arkkitehtuuriin pohjautuvat tehokkaat verkkoratkaisumme integroituvat saumattomasti eri ekosysteemeihin ja luovat uusia mahdollisuuksia verkon kaupallistamiselle ja skaalaamiselle. Palveluntarjoajat, yritykset ja muut kumppanimme ympäri maailmaa luottavat Nokian verkkojen suorituskykyyn, vastuullisuuteen ja turvallisuusstandardeihin. Työskentelemme yhdessä kumppaneidemme kanssa kehittääksemme tulevaisuuden digitaalisia palveluita ja sovelluksia.

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Nokia completes acquisition of Infinera to create innovation powerhouse in optical networks, with the scale to power the data center revolution

    

Nokia completes acquisition of Infinera to create innovation powerhouse in optical networks, with the scale to power the data center revolution

• Brings together two pioneering leaders in the optical networks market.
• Creates an optical networks powerhouse – underpinned by the cutting-edge research of Nokia Bell Labs – with the scale to accelerate product roadmaps and bring more to customers, faster.
• Expands Nokia's presence in the fast-growing webscale segment, accelerating its customer diversification.
• Further expands Nokia's ability to help network operators in every sector unlock the opportunities and meet the network and power demands of the AI era.
• Financial rationale of the merger confirmed.
  
  

28 February 2025
Espoo, Finland — Nokia announced today the closing of the acquisition of Infinera Corporation. The San Jose based company has become part of Nokia effective as of the closing.

 

The acquisition brings together two innovation leaders with a history of industry firsts. In doing so, it creates an optical networks powerhouse with the scale to accelerate product roadmaps, further expanding Nokia's ability to help network operators – whether service providers, webscalers or enterprises – unlock the opportunities and meet the network and power demands of the AI era.

 

"I am delighted we have been able to quickly and successfully complete the acquisition of Infinera. This transaction will significantly improve our scale and profitability in optical networks, and allows us to speed up the pace of innovation to meet the requirements of the AI era. The Infinera acquisition will accelerate our growth strategy in data centers and strengthen our presence both in North America and with webscale customers," remarked Pekka Lundmark, President and CEO of Nokia.

 

"The speed with which the transaction was approved is very positive for Nokia, as is the strong support the deal has received from customers. In welcoming our new colleagues – and the talent and expertise they bring with them – we are creating a new organization that will be a pace-setter in innovation, offering capabilities across a wide range of optical networking technologies, underpinned by the cutting-edge research of Nokia Bell Labs. Innovation benefits from scale, and the expansion offered by the acquisition means that we will be able to bring more to customers, faster," commented Federico Guillén, President of Network Infrastructure at Nokia.

 

The Infinera team will join Nokia's Optical Networks business – headed by its Vice President and General Manager, James Watt. Meanwhile Infinera CEO, David Heard will join Nokia's Network Infrastructure business group as NI Chief Strategic Growth Officer. In this position he will help to set and oversee the implementation of the business group's growth plans, including specific customer segment strategies, product and market mix, and go-to-market approach across the business group.

 

"I am delighted to welcome David to Nokia and to Network Infrastructure. His extensive experience in technology and business strategy implementation will play a leading role in helping our business group seize opportunities in the market and achieve our ambitions across all our markets and business areas," added Guillén.

 

"From strong growth in the webscale space to service provider successes spanning metro, long haul and subsea networks, the proven accomplishments of the Infinera team make for an ideal complement to Nokia's recognized optical network leadership and innovation. I'm excited about the widely expanded opportunities this new chapter opens up and what it means for Nokia and its Network Infrastructure business, and delighted to be joining the team to help accelerate its growth across all customer segments worldwide," said Heard.

 

With more than 1,000 customers globally, the combined company's solutions power some of the biggest operators worldwide, along with leading organizations in verticals including enterprise, utilities, government and research & education.  

 

Meeting the challenges of the AI era

Data centers are at an inflection point as AI and cloud put massive new demands on them. To overcome these challenges requires new ways of thinking about data center technology that emphasizes mission-critical aspects of networking technology.

 

Nokia's offerings across the Network Infrastructure portfolio apply the same mission-critical standards to customers in every sector, from service providers to webscalers to organizations in a broad range of industry sectors. Directing innovation power towards topics such as reliability, security and sustainability – as well as capacity, flexibility and manageability – Nokia is strongly placed to bring value to data center builders and users, including in intra-data center for server-to-server connections to support the increasing demands of new AI workloads.

 

EUR 200 million synergy target reconfirmed

On 28 June 2024, Nokia and Infinera announced the companies had signed a definitive agreement under which Nokia would acquire Infinera for US$6.65 per share with shareholders able to elect cash, Nokia shares or a combination of both with a proration mechanism limiting the Nokia share issuance to approximately 30% of the aggregate consideration paid to Infinera shareholders. All Nokia shares will be issued to Infinera shareholders in the form of American Depositary Shares.

 

Nokia announced at the time and reconfirms today that it expects the transaction to be accretive to Nokia comparable operating profit and EPS in 2025 and Nokia continues to target over EUR 200 million of net comparable operating profit synergies from the deal by 2027 with the synergies ramping gradually over the three-year period. The transaction is expected to deliver over 10% comparable EPS accretion in 2027.

 

Multimedia, technical information and related news 

Web Page: Nokia Optical Networks

Web Page: Infinera is now part of Nokia

 

About Nokia 

At Nokia, we create technology that helps the world act together. 

 

As a B2B technology innovation leader, we are pioneering networks that sense, think and act by leveraging our work across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. In addition, we create value with intellectual property and long-term research, led by the award-winning Nokia Bell Labs, which is celebrating 100 years of innovation. 

 

With truly open architectures that seamlessly integrate into any ecosystem, our high-performance networks create new opportunities for monetization and scale. Service providers, enterprises and partners worldwide trust Nokia to deliver secure, reliable and sustainable networks today – and work with us to create the digital services and applications of the future. 

 

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Changes in Nokia Corporation’s own shares

    

Nokia Corporation
Stock Exchange Release
28 February 2025 at 17:00 EET

Changes in Nokia Corporation's own shares

 

Espoo, Finland – A total of 127,434,986 Nokia shares (NOKIA) held by Nokia Corporation were transferred today to Citibank, N.A., the depositary bank for Nokia's American Depositary Share facility, for the distribution by Citibank, N.A., in its capacity as Exchange Agent, to such shareholders of Infinera Corporation ("Infinera") who have validly elected either share consideration or mixed consideration in connection with the completion of Nokia's acquisition of Infinera, in the form of American Depositary Shares. As previously announced by Nokia, Nokia entered into the Agreement and Plan of Merger on 27 June 2024 among Neptune of America Corporation and Infinera (the "Merger Agreement"). 

The directed issuance of shares is based on the resolution of the Board of Directors on 22 November 2024. The subscription price for the Nokia share (NOKIA) is the closing price of Nokia's share (NOKIA) on Nasdaq Helsinki on the date of closing of the merger, on 28 February 2025. 

 

The number of own shares held by Nokia Corporation following the transfer is 133,882,828. 

The rest of the merger consideration will be paid to the shareholders of Infinera in cash. Nokia has today published a separate press release regarding the completion of the Infinera acquisition.

 

About Nokia

At Nokia, we create technology that helps the world act together.

 

As a B2B technology innovation leader, we are pioneering networks that sense, think and act by leveraging our work across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. In addition, we create value with intellectual property and long-term research, led by the award-winning Nokia Bell Labs, which is celebrating 100 years of innovation.

 

With truly open architectures that seamlessly integrate into any ecosystem, our high-performance networks create new opportunities for monetization and scale. Service providers, enterprises and partners worldwide trust Nokia to deliver secure, reliable and sustainable networks today – and work with us to create the digital services and applications of the future.

 

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Certain statements herein that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements reflect Nokia's current expectations and views of future developments and include statements regarding: A) expectations, plans, benefits or outlook related to our strategies, projects, programs, product launches, growth management, licenses, sustainability and other ESG targets, operational key performance indicators and decisions on market exits; B) expectations, plans or benefits related to future performance of our businesses (including the expected impact, timing and duration of potential global pandemics, geopolitical conflicts and the general or regional macroeconomic conditions on our businesses, our supply chain, the timing of market changes or turning points in demand and our customers' businesses) and any future dividends and other distributions of profit; C) expectations and targets regarding financial performance and results of operations, including market share, prices, net sales, income, margins, cash flows, cost savings, the timing of receivables, operating expenses, provisions, impairments, taxes, currency exchange rates, hedging, investment funds, inflation, product cost reductions, competitiveness, revenue generation in any specific region, and licensing income and payments; D) ability to execute, expectations, plans or benefits related to our ongoing transactions, investments and changes in organizational structure and operating model; E) impact on revenue with respect to litigation/renewal discussions; and F) any statements preceded by or including "anticipate", "continue", "believe", "envisage", "expect", "aim", "will", "target", "may", "would", "see", "plan" or similar expressions. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond our control, which could cause our actual results to differ materially from such statements. These statements are based on management's best assumptions and beliefs in light of the information currently available to them. These forward-looking statements are only predictions based upon our current expectations and views of future events and developments and are subject to risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that will occur in the future. Factors, including risks and uncertainties that could cause these differences, include those risks and uncertainties specified in our 2023 annual report on Form 20-F published on 29 February 2024 under Operating and financial review and prospects – Risk factors. 

 

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Nokia to modernize data center infrastructure for Maxis #MWC25

    

 

Press Release

Nokia to modernize data center infrastructure for Maxis #MWC25

• Data center refresh to support digital transformation for Malaysian service provider in expanding Southeast Asia market.
• Nokia to deploy data center switches and automation platform for improved scale, reliability and simplicity.

 

28 February 2025

Espoo, Finland – Nokia today announced a significant upgrade to the data center infrastructure of Maxis, Malaysia's leading integrated telecommunications provider, aimed at enhancing connectivity and scalability with Nokia's data center switches and Event-Driven Automation (EDA) platform. The deployment will support Maxis's business growth by providing a scalable, secure, and efficient data center architecture.

 

The modernization of Maxis' data center connectivity technology will help the company simplify network operations, solve issues faster and automate workloads, all on a robust and secure infrastructure.

 

Nokia will deploy its cutting-edge 7220 Interconnect Router (IXR) data center switches and EDA technology across multiple Maxis data centers. This upgrade will enable Maxis to provision infrastructure resources without delay, reduce complexity and ensure secure applications running in the network can scale gracefully.

 

"This expansion of our longstanding collaboration with Nokia will drive next-generation connectivity in anticipation of customers' growing needs. It reflects Malaysia's emergence as a hub for data centers and hyperscalers, in line with greater adoption of AI-enabled cloud infrastructure. This initiative will enhance our network capabilities, ensuring we are able to continue providing best-in-class connectivity-adjacent solutions powered by fast, secure and reliable connectivity," said Goh Seow Eng, Chief Executive Officer at Maxis.

 

"Data center networks are critical infrastructure and need to be extremely reliable while also being simple to deploy and operate. We are pleased to work with Maxis to modernize their data center infrastructure with our advanced data center switches and EDA technology to provide Maxis with a future-proof architecture that is scalable, resilient, and easy to deploy. This collaboration is a testament to the strength of our technology and our commitment to supporting our customer's growth in the booming data center market in Southeast Asia," added Ming Kin Ngiam, Head of Southeast Asia South for Network Infrastructure at Nokia.

 

Nokia is helping cloud builders worldwide to build modern data center networks that are highly reliable, secure and easy to operate – which is essential to meet the growing demands of AI workloads globally. Nokia's EDA ensures faster response times, reduces manual effort, minimizes errors, consumes less compute resources and handles network-wide operations at scale with consistent performance. By proactively resolving issues, it boosts reliability and reduces operational costs.

 

The Nokia 7220 IXR, a key component of Nokia's Data Center Fabric solution, provides fixed-configuration, high-capacity platforms that offers unmatched scale, flexibility and operational simplicity to data center and cloud environments. These scalable next-generation platforms are designed to meet the high connectivity and density demands of webscale companies, service providers and enterprises.

 

Multimedia, technical information and related news 

Web Page: Nokia Data Center Networks

Product Page: Nokia EDA

Product Page: Nokia 7220 IXR

 

About Nokia

At Nokia, we create technology that helps the world act together.

 

As a B2B technology innovation leader, we are pioneering networks that sense, think and act by leveraging our work across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. In addition, we create value with intellectual property and long-term research, led by the award-winning Nokia Bell Labs, which is celebrating 100 years of innovation.

 

With truly open architectures that seamlessly integrate into any ecosystem, our high-performance networks create new opportunities for monetization and scale. Service providers, enterprises and partners worldwide trust Nokia to deliver secure, reliable and sustainable networks today – and work with us to create the digital services and applications of the future.

 

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Nokia adds new Agentic-AI capabilities across its autonomous networks portfolio #MWC25

    

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Nokia adds new Agentic-AI capabilities across its autonomous networks portfolio #MWC25

• Agentic-AI innovations embedded in autonomous networks portfolio help CSPs to automate, secure, and monetize their networks.
• New capabilities introduce several new security features, including new AI-powered Threat Hunt Assistant that reduces threat dwell time from days to minutes by proactively detecting cybersecurity attacks.
• AI innovations will be showcased at Nokia's booth 3B20 sat Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, 3-6 March.
  
  

27 February 2025

Espoo, Finland – Nokia today announced new Agentic AI capabilities within its autonomous networks portfolio that will help Communication Service Providers (CSPs) better automate, secure, and monetize their networks. Extending the AI capabilities already embedded in Nokia's autonomous networks portfolio, the latest Agentic AI enhancements enable CSPs to more easily detect security threats, accelerate new service creation, and improve the management of their networks.

 

"CSPs around the world are actively pursuing higher levels of network autonomy to achieve increased operational efficiency and offer their customers personalized experiences. AI is the catalyst to unlock L4/L5 autonomy, manage complexity, and orchestrate actions across network domains and operational functions," said Kal De, SVP Product and Engineering, Cloud and Network Services at Nokia.

 

"Traditional machine learning, LLMs, and Agentic AI will each play critical roles in the journey towards fully autonomous networks. Nokia is helping CSPs evolve their network, service and security operations with AI models trained on telco data, and with access to contextual information like threat intelligence," said Andy Hicks, Senior Principal Analyst at GlobalData.

 

Nokia's autonomous networks portfolio delivers advanced security, analytics, and operations capabilities that provide CSPs with a holistic, real-time view of the network so they can reduce costs, accelerate time-to-value, and deliver the best customer experience. Industry analysts have recognized Nokia as a leader in cybersecurity, telco AI, network automation software, service assurance, and cross-domain service orchestration*. The latest AI capabilities across Nokia's autonomous networks portfolio include:

 

• New AI innovations in security: Nokia is using a telco trained LLM and Agentic AI to proactively detect security threats and rapidly retrieve insights. With its AI-driven approach, Nokia enables CSPs to reduce manual work and significantly improve their security posture by reducing the dwell time between threats occurring and being removed from the network from days to minutes. The new AI-powered Threat Hunt Assistant, part of NetGuard Cybersecurity Dome, leverages telco threat intelligence, network telemetry, and AI to detect attacks and guide security analysts on remediation steps. In addition, enhancements to NetGuard Endpoint Detection and Response, including a signature validation capability that ensures the integrity and authenticity of container images, prevent the deployment of untrusted or tampered software in telco cloud environments.
• New AI innovations in analytics: Nokia has augmented its subscriber experience analytics for fixed and mobile networks with Generative AI enabling CSP engineers to interact through natural language to easily retrieve insights and generate reports without requiring specialized technical skills (e.g., knowledge of SQL coding). The new self-service AI studio, part of Nokia's Data Suite, provides an MLOps and LLMOps framework, including pre-packaged AI models for CSPs to build their own AI and GenAI use cases. Together with the AI studio, Data Suite's curated data products help CSPs to reduce the time it takes to create new AI use cases from six months to four weeks.
• New AI innovations in digital operations: Nokia's Digital Operations Center leverages Agentic AI to automate tasks and troubleshoot issues in service orchestration, fulfilment, and assurance. For example, an AI agent can be used to speed up the creation and cataloguing of a new service – or to help an engineer investigate and resolve an order that has failed during the provisioning process. Additionally, Nokia Bell Labs AI models are incorporated for advanced anomaly detection and prediction of network faults.
  
  

Nokia's latest innovations in AI demonstrate a commitment to help CSPs realize the vision of fully autonomous networks that sense, think, and act.

 

* 'Leading Suppliers in Network Automation Software' (Appledore Research, July 2024), 'Frost Radar™: Extended Detection and Response, 2024 (Frost & Sullivan, December 2024), 'GigaOm Radar for Extended Detection and Response' (GigaOm, April 2024), 'Automated Assurance: Worldwide Market Shares 2023' (Analysys Mason, October 2024),  'Service Assurance: Competitive Landscape Assessment' (GlobalData, December 2024).

 

Multimedia, technical information and related news 

Blog: Orchestrating the future of fully autonomous networks with GenAI

Product Page: NetGuard Cybersecurity Dome

Web Page: Nokia AI and Analytics

 

About Nokia 

At Nokia, we create technology that helps the world act together. 

 

As a B2B technology innovation leader, we are pioneering networks that sense, think and act by leveraging our work across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. In addition, we create value with intellectual property and long-term research, led by the award-winning Nokia Bell Labs, which is celebrating 100 years of innovation. 

 

With truly open architectures that seamlessly integrate into any ecosystem, our high-performance networks create new opportunities for monetization and scale. Service providers, enterprises and partners worldwide trust Nokia to deliver secure, reliable and sustainable networks today – and work with us to create the digital services and applications of the future. 

 

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Deutsche Telekom’s T Wholesale and Nokia energize network API market with commercial deal to drive and simplify developer-created applications #MWC 2025

    

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Deutsche Telekom's T Wholesale and Nokia energize network API market with commercial deal to drive and simplify developer-created applications #MWC 2025

• Two Deutsche Telekom network API use cases, SIM Swap and Number Verification that are key security and authentication solutions for industries such as financial services and retail, will be made available to developers through Nokia's Network as Code platform with developer portal.
  • The two APIs will target Germany initially, with other European markets planned for later in the year. Additional Deutsche Telekom APIs, like Location Verification and Quality on Demand, are also expected to be made available on the Network as Code platform in the months ahead.

 

27 February 2025

Espoo, Finland — T Wholesale, which is part of Deutsche Telekom, one of Europe's largest operators with more than 250 million subscribers, and Nokia have signed a commercial deal that will make two of the operator's network API use cases, SIM Swap and Number Verification, available to developers through Nokia's Network as Code platform with developer portal. The deal marks an important step for operators as they accelerate plans to monetize their network assets and core capabilities by exposing their network functions to developers.

 

"Network APIs are a growing focus for Deutsche Telekom in Europe. In reaching this milestone, Nokia's technology and approach give us the confidence that we can fully provide developers with the tools they require to successfully utilize our APIs to better service their own customers with innovative solutions," said Carsten Bruns, Vice President of Internet & Content Services at T Wholesale.

 

SIM Swap and Number Verification are key security and authentication solutions for industries such as financial services and retail, using telecom network capabilities to mitigate fraud and enhance user verification. A SIM Swap API works by detecting if a SIM card associated with a phone number was recently changed, which could trigger additional security verification checks. Number Verification can confirm whether a user has control over a phone number and if a commercial transaction request has come from the same device as the owner.

 

"This agreement with Deutsche Telekom's T Wholesale is a fantastic reflection of our collaboration and joint vision of maximizing the true value of network assets and supporting developers in creating new 5G and 4G applications. This is also an important validation point of Nokia's solid execution of its network API strategy, technology, and, with our Rapid acquisition, go-to-market capabilities, which are peerless in our industry," said Raghav Sahgal, President of Cloud and Network Services at Nokia.

 

Nokia's Network as Code platform provides developers with standardized access to network functions, without having to navigate any of the underlying network technologies. Nokia's network API strategy is centered around connecting multiple API ecosystems through its Network as Code platform by offering operators the broadest range of network exposure options, paired with robust multi-tier API security and simplified access to network functionalities.

 

Nokia further strengthened its capabilities recently with its acquisition of Rapid, the world's largest public API hub that enables operators to seamlessly integrate their networks, actively control API usage and exposure, and enhance API lifecycle management.

 

Since launching the Network as Code platform in September 2023, Nokia's ecosystem of Network as Code platform partners has grown to 51 currently and includes BT, Orange, StarHub, Telefonica, and Telecom Argentina. Nokia's commitment to API monetization extends beyond network-side aggregation and includes hyperscalers like Google Cloud; Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) platform providers such as Infobip; vertical independent software vendors like Elmo; and the world's largest public API hub through Nokia's acquisition of Rapid.

 

About Nokia 

At Nokia, we create technology that helps the world act together. 

 

As a B2B technology innovation leader, we are pioneering networks that sense, think and act by leveraging our work across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. In addition, we create value with intellectual property and long-term research, led by the award-winning Nokia Bell Labs, which is celebrating 100 years of innovation. 

 

With truly open architectures that seamlessly integrate into any ecosystem, our high-performance networks create new opportunities for monetization and scale. Service providers, enterprises and partners worldwide trust Nokia to deliver secure, reliable and sustainable networks today – and work with us to create the digital services and applications of the future. 

 

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Nokia launches MX Context to accelerate Industry 4.0 with AI-powered contextual awareness suites #MWC25

    

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Nokia launches MX Context to accelerate Industry 4.0 with AI-powered contextual awareness suites #MWC25

• MX Context generates actionable insights to support intelligent automation for Industry 4.0 use cases.
• The solution uses sensor fusion and AI to interpret sensor data that helps enterprises improve their operational environment by eliminating data silos, optimizing resources, as well as enhancing worker safety.
• Launches with two use case suites, tracking and positioning and worker safety, that bring multi-modal sensor fusion and AI inferencing for operational technology.
  
  

26 February 2025

Espoo, Finland – Nokia today announced MX Context, a new solution that leverages sensor fusion technology to deliver AI-powered contextual awareness for industrial enterprises. Integrated into the Nokia Edge Compute and AI platform for industrial sites, MX Context processes large amounts of data from different sources, providing real-time actionable insights and intelligent automation to enable operational excellence and enhance decision-making.
MX Context is the only solution on the market that provides situational and contextual awareness.

According to MarketsandMarkets, the global sensor fusion market is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17.8%, reaching USD $18 billion by 2028.¹ This underscores the growing demand among organizations for solutions that unify data and provide rich insights to enhance efficiency, safety, and automation.

Operational Technology (OT) environments generate huge quantities of data from machine sensors, positioning systems, and worker-worn devices. Connecting these assets using private wireless provides industries with real-time data and operational insights. However, the increasing complexity of modern OT environments often creates data silos, which limits enterprises' contextual awareness. With Nokia MX Context, industrial enterprises can now easily ingest, harmonize, and fuse sensor data to get real-time actionable insights and improve their operations.

Nokia MX Context leverages sensor fusion technology to combine multimodal data from different sources and deliver real-time, AI-powered insights for Industry 4.0 use cases. It utilizes Nokia's on-premise edge industrial compute solutions, MXIE and MX Grid, for processing, as well as the MXIE Data Lake to store structured and unstructured data for historical analysis, and application data access via APIs.

 

"Sensor fusion and AI are key capabilities for core industrial automation applications spanning robotics, autonomous work cells, and collaborative scenarios involving humans and machines. Nokia, with its private wireless and on-premise industrial edge compute, is well positioned to offer critical use cases for worker safety and tracking and positioning to bring the power of AI insights to industrial digitalization," said Ryan Martin, Senior Research Director at ABI Research.

 

"AI is becoming a strategic element for Industry 4.0 transformation. Nokia's on-premise compute capabilities offer innovative AI solutions that are OT-compliant and bring the contextual awareness needed for industrial use cases. Nokia MX Context harmonizes real-time data from sensors and sensing technologies. It takes data-driven operational excellence to the next level, transforming data into contextual awareness information that can be used as actionable insights and intelligent automation," said Stephan Litjens, Vice President Enterprise Campus Edge Solutions, Cloud and Network Services at Nokia.

 

MX Context also offers low-code visual development capabilities, enabling users to quickly create logical workflows and design dashboards with minimal coding expertise. It seamlessly integrates with Nokia MX Workmate, a powerful gen-AI assistant that enables natural language-based interactions with connected workers.

 

MX Context suites are modular and built to create use case-based contextual awareness solutions. The first two MX Context suites and associated user applications are tracking and positioning and worker safety.

 

Tracking and positioning: MX Context is the first industry solution that can ingest and fuse data from various tracking and positioning technologies, like Bluetooth Angle-of-Arrival (i.e., Nokia HAIP), video-based positioning (i.e., Nokia VPOD), worker devices' GPS, and other MXIE third-party tracking technologies such as HERE HD GNSS and Nordic ID. It provides more accurate and reliable positioning and ensures tracking continuity across mixed industrial environments to optimize asset utilization, inventory management, processes, and material flow.

 

Worker safety: MX Context ingests and fuses different types of data from Nokia sensory solutions like Nokia VPOD, device sensors (i.e., gyroscopes, accelerometers, and microphones), and third-party applications. AI-based processing and fusion of real-time data provides, for the first time, situational awareness and contextual information, enabling the detection of potential accidents or incidents and facilitating the best response, such as triggering an alert, notifying emergency services, or providing real-time guidance to the worker.

 

As part of the MX Context sensory solutions that can leverage internal sensors in industrial workers' handhelds, Nokia will be complementing its portfolio of industrial routers with new variants that boast multi-sensory capabilities (accelerometers, gyroscopes, voltmeters, environmental sensors, etc.). These routers can enhance machine insights and will also utilize advanced GNSS chips for more accurate outdoor positioning.

 

Multimedia, technical information and related news

Product Page: OT Edge DataOps | Nokia DAC

Web Page: Real-time tracking and positioning | Nokia DAC

Web Page: Worker safety | Nokia DAC

 

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With truly open architectures that seamlessly integrate into any ecosystem, our high-performance networks create new opportunities for monetization and scale. Service providers, enterprises and partners worldwide trust Nokia to deliver secure, reliable and sustainable networks today – and work with us to create the digital services and applications of the future.

 

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Bell Canada and Nokia expand 5G partnership to accelerate innovation with Cloud and Open RAN deployment #MWC25

    

 

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Bell Canada and Nokia expand 5G partnership to accelerate innovation with Cloud and Open RAN deployment #MWC25

• Expanded partnership to modernize Bell's network with Cloud and Open RAN capabilities, improving agility, scalability, and efficiency.
• Partnership aims to deliver enhanced customer experiences and drive innovation in Bell's 5G network through a flexible, open architecture.
• Partnership to leverage Nokia's AirScale portfolio on a Red Hat OpenShift and Dell Technologies platform to build an open, intelligent, and autonomous network.
  
  

25 February 2025

Montréal, Canada and Espoo, Finland – Bell Canada and Nokia today announced a significant expansion of their 5G network infrastructure partnership, marking a major step forward in deploying Cloud RAN and paving the way for future Open RAN advancements.

Bell's deployment of Cloud RAN infrastructure is a strategic stepping stone toward Bell's broader Open RAN vision. Nokia's anyRAN approach offers Bell flexible RAN evolution options – purpose-built, hybrid, or Cloud RAN solutions – enabling network monetization, interoperability, vendor diversity, and reduced vendor lock-in.

Nokia's cutting-edge Cloud RAN solution, coupled with Bell's forward-thinking Open RAN vision, promises unparalleled network agility, scalability, and efficiency, ultimately delivering an exceptional customer experience and positioning Bell at the forefront of the 5G evolution.

Key features of the expanded partnership
This multi-year contract extension will see Bell deploy Nokia's commercial Cloud RAN solution, built on a foundation of Red Hat OpenShift and supported by Dell Technologies infrastructure. Nokia will supply equipment from its industry-leading, energy-efficient 5G AirScale portfolio to support Bell's Cloud RAN deployments, ensuring feature and performance consistency throughout the network evolution.

This collaboration leverages the power of Cloud RAN to deliver immediate benefits to Bell's network. The cloud-native architecture, powered by Red Hat OpenShift, provides enhanced scalability and agility, enabling Bell to rapidly adapt its network to meet fluctuating customer demands and swiftly introduce new services. This agility is further enhanced by the deployment of Dell PowerEdge servers at cell sites and data centres, providing the processing power and reliability needed for demanding 5G workloads.

Nokia's contribution includes its Cloud RAN software and Open fronthaul hardware capable radios. Nokia will also supply its AI-powered radio network management solution, MantaRay NM, which supports all radio and mobile core technologies, optimizing network performance and efficiency.

"Our expanded partnership with Nokia represents a pivotal moment in Bell's 5G journey. By leveraging Nokia's cutting-edge Cloud RAN technology, we're not only significantly enhancing our network capabilities today, but also building a robust foundation for the future adoption of Open RAN. This approach ensures network agility, scalability, and vendor diversity, ultimately delivering an exceptional experience for our customers and positioning Bell as a leader in 5G innovation," said Mark McDonald, Senior Vice President, Networks at Bell.

 

"This important contract extension with our partner, Bell, highlights the strength of our industry-leading RAN technology portfolio and our anyRAN approach that enables gradual RAN evolution with feature and performance consistency. We are proud to support Bell on their cloud journey, which will bring the readiness and scalability to enable new use cases and drive new revenue models for 5G monetization," added Tommi Uitto, President of Mobile Networks at Nokia.

 

"As a leader in the telecom industry, Bell continues to push the boundaries of innovation by successfully leveraging Red Hat OpenShift as the cloud platform for 5G. Expanding this platform to evolve RAN functions further drives flexibility, scalability and cost efficiencies. Red Hat is proud to collaborate with Bell and Nokia on this exciting initiative to deliver the benefits of cloud-native technology to customers across Canada," commented Gino Grano, Global Vice President, Americas, Telecommunications at Red Hat.

 

"Bell's network cloud transformation, supported by our collaboration with Nokia and Red Hat, provides a flexible and scalable foundation designed to drive business growth, with agility to quickly embrace new market opportunities," said Dennis Hoffman, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Telecom Systems Business at Dell Technologies.

 

About Nokia  

At Nokia, we create technology that helps the world act together.  

  

As a B2B technology innovation leader, we are pioneering networks that sense, think and act by leveraging our work across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. In addition, we create value with intellectual property and long-term research, led by the award-winning Nokia Bell Labs, which is celebrating 100 years of innovation. 

  

With truly open architectures that seamlessly integrate into any ecosystem, our high-performance networks create new opportunities for monetization and scale. Service providers, enterprises and partners worldwide trust Nokia to deliver secure, reliable and sustainable networks today – and work with us to create the digital services and applications of the future. 

 

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Bell is Canada's largest communications company, providing advanced broadband Internet, wireless, TV, media and business communication services. Founded in Montréal in 1880, Bell is wholly owned by BCE Inc. To learn more, please visit Bell.ca or BCE.ca.

 

Through Bell for Better, we are investing to create a better today and a better tomorrow by supporting the social and economic prosperity of our communities. This includes the Bell Let's Talk initiative, which promotes Canadian mental health with national awareness and anti-stigma campaigns like Bell Let's Talk Day and significant Bell funding of community care and access, research and workplace leadership initiatives throughout the country. To learn more, please visit Bell.ca/LetsTalk.

 

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