Nokia and ABI Research unveil Industry 4.0 maturity index for industrial campuses

    

 

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Nokia and ABI Research unveil Industry 4.0 maturity index for industrial campuses

 

• Results show electronics and appliance manufacturers are leading the way in Industry 4.0 technology investments and use case deployments with maturity scores of 73.1 and 79.5 out of 100, respectively. 
• Opportunities lay ahead for manufacturers of heavy equipment to advance their digitalization plans by closely aligning IT and operational (OT) environments.
• Enterprises can use a self-assessment tool to measure digital maturity and identify opportunities to achieve operational and ESG goals on their path to the industrial metaverse. 

 

17 April 2023

 

Espoo, Finland – Nokia and ABI research today announced results of research that highlights the progress and plans for enterprise infrastructure investments in several key sectors. With industry average scores found to be 66 out of 100 for technology maturity and 68.8 for use case deployment maturity, responses showed electronics and appliance manufacturers are forging ahead with scores of 73.1 and 79.5 respectively. 

 

Technology investments made by enterprises in this sector include the deployment of ruggedized devices to workers, cloud-based warehouse management systems for supply chain and logistics. Digital technologies are being used to support preventative maintenance use cases, data analytics and drones for industrial applications.  

 

Other findings show key drivers for implementing digitalization are optimizing workforce operations and safety scoring 7.4 out of 10, and supporting the company's sustainability goals scoring 7.29, which reinforce the need to improve ESG metrics across industries.

 

The 'Industry 4.0 Maturity Index' delivers key insights from a survey of IT and OT leaders at 500 companies in five key markets. It showcases the Industry 4.0 readiness of Industrial campuses in the chemicals, fabricated metals, petroleum, mining, electronics & appliances, heavy machinery and ports & logistics sectors, and will allow enterprises to benchmark their digitalization progress on the path toward the industrial metaverse.  

 

To complement the research findings, Nokia and ABI Research have developed a self-assessment benchmark tool for industries. They can use it to understand how to innovate and advance their digitalization capabilities toward the industrial metaverse as they incorporate key aspects such as worker safety and automation.  

 

Michael Larner, Research Director ABI Research, said: "We are seeing a market trend for adopting private 5G in an end-to-end approach. For a successful transformation the need to align IT and operational technology (OT) is clear. IT departments will continue to play an important role in digital transformation using IT to support the delivery of OT the most efficient way." 

 

Stephan Litjens, VP of Enterprise Campus Edge business at Nokia, said: "As the global leader in private wireless and industrial edge across an array of industry sectors, we want to simplify and accelerate digital transformation for industries. The industry 4.0 maturity index and self-assessment tool help industrial campuses to understand where they are and how to progress. We see investments scaling up this year, and this is confirmed by this research that show that industries are, on average, moving closer to aligning IT and OT." 

 

Nokia has developed an integrated as-a-service platform that brings together industrial-grade private wireless connectivity and Wi-Fi, with industrial edge compute, industrial devices and ecosystem neutral applications. Enterprises can use it to set their path to the industrial metaverse.    

 

Nokia will be joined by ABI Research at Hannover Messe in Hall 15, Stand F06 during 17-21 April 2023 to offer insights on the Industry 4.0 Maturity Index. Nokia will present an array of solutions for Industry 4.0 digital transformation for Enterprises. 

 

 

Resources and additional information

Whitepaper: Industry 4.0 Maturity Benchmark white paper 

Assessment tool: Enterprise Industry 4.0 Maturity Assessment Tool 

Website: Embrace Industry 4.0 with digitalization 

Website: Nokia Digital Automation Cloud | Nokia 

Website: MX Industrial Edge | Nokia 

Website: Powering the industrial metaverse | Nokia 

 

 

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Nokia deploys multi-gig fiber broadband for Valoo in Finland

    

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Nokia deploys multi-gig fiber broadband for Valoo in Finland

• Nokia's first comprehensive XGS-PON solution in Finland
• 95 percent smaller carbon footprint compared to traditional point-to-point solutions

 

14 April 2023

Espoo, Finland – Nokia today announced it is deploying a 10G broadband network for operator Valoo in Finland. The deal includes fiber access nodes for the central office and Nokia's Altiplano broadband access controller, which includes software defined access networking (SDAN) capabilities. The new network will connect 200,000 homes in and around 30 cities by the end of 2026.  

 

With Nokia's Quillion chipset at the heart of the solution, the XGS-PON deployment is ready for 25G PON when Valoo wants to add more capacity. Quillion also means lower emissions.

 

Tommi Linna, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Valoo, said: "With Nokia's advanced Lightspan multi-gig fiber broadband solution we can provide our customers the best possible technology there is in the fiber world. The solution enables us to deliver network connection to multiple customers using the same fiber and accelerate internet connections up to 20 gigabit and beyond. With Nokia's new Altiplano controller we can bring advanced open access network solution to Finnish market.

 

"And last but not least: Nokia's multi-gig fiber has a 95 percent smaller carbon footprint thanks to its energy efficiency gains compared to traditional point-to-point solutions. I couldn't be more proud that we are the first fiber company in Finland executing Nokia's multi-gig fiber to customers – starting this spring."

 

Valoo (Adola Oy) is 100 percent owned by DIF Capital Partners, an independent infrastructure equity fund controlling more than €15 billion of investments globally. Valoo focuses on fiber broadband access and is undergoing large scale fiber developments in the Finnish market. In February this year the company announced that as well as building fiber networks it will offer internet service subscriptions itself and make its network available to third party operators.

 

Sandy Motley, President Fixed Networks at Nokia, said: "With our Altiplano controller, Valoo has laid the foundation for automation in the broadband access network, which is essential for operators looking to innovate with advanced digital broadband offerings while keeping their operational expenditure under control."

 

 

Resources and additional information

 

Nokia's Altiplano solution

The Altiplano Access Controller offers a complete suite of network management as well as SDN control functions to automate, assure, visualize, optimize, and enhance broadband networks. Altiplano automates network lifecycle management activities and provides operators a single pane of glass to manage the entire access network domain. Its open modular cloud-native micro-services based architecture with open APIs allows operators to integrate easily with OSS/BSS, IT and cloud platforms, and onboard their own Applications.

 

Nokia 7360-FX Lightspan series access node (OLT)

Nokia 7360-FX Lightspan is a high-capacity access node for massive scale fiber rollouts. Usually located in telecom central office, it connects thousands of users via optical fiber, aggregates their broadband traffic and sends it deeper in the network. The fiber access node supports multiple fiber technologies including GPON, XGS-PON, 25GS-PON and Point-to-Point Ethernet to deliver a wide range of services with the best fit technology.

 

Nokia Lightspan MF-2

The Nokia Lightspan MF is the industry's first family of software-defined fiber access nodes designed to provide non-blocking delivery of massive scale, high-speed broadband services with 25G PON, 50G PON and beyond. 

 

Web page: Next-generation PON

Image library: Nokia Quillion Chipset

 

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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.

 

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.

 

About Valoo

Valoo is a Finnish optical fiber network operator and service provider whose mission is to make Finland an information society that meets international standards by bringing data transmission connections based on optical fiber to as many Finnish households as possible. In the digital world, a fiber optic connection is part of the basic infrastructure, like electricity, water and sewage, to which everyone has a right. Read more at valoo.fi.

 

 

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Nokia expands industrial edge applications to accelerate enterprises’ transition to Industry 4.0

    

 

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Nokia expands industrial edge applications to accelerate enterprises' transition to Industry 4.0

 

• Four new digital enablers expand OT edge applications offered on Nokia MX Industrial Edge.
• Industrial IoT platforms connect, collect and analyze data from disparate sources –including video cameras – unlocking its value.
• New security function protects from advanced threats in OT environment, improves security, which is essential for data exchange.

 

13 April 2023

Espoo, Finland – Nokia today launched four third-party applications for MX Industrial Edge (MXIE), which help enterprises connect, collect and analyze data from operational technology (OT) assets on a robust and secure on-premises edge. Asset-heavy industries can accelerate their digital transformation and benefit most from Nokia's OT edge ecosystem-neutral approach, which taps into innovation from many top digitalization enablers. The new applications also leverage the GPU capability recently announced on Nokia MXIE, a powerful on-premises OT edge solution that helps process data closest to the source in real time while retaining data sovereignty.

 

As enterprises move to digitalize operations they face some significant challenges. These include the collection, integration and analysis of all types of data – including video – from disparate systems, sensors and data silos, and having the certainty that sensitive data is protected once shared with other cloud ecosystems. With highly reliable 4.9G/5G private wireless connectivity and the low latency processing power of Nokia MXIE, these industry-leading applications help enterprises overcome these challenges making enterprise data usable, actionable and secure. As a result, many transformative use cases can be created, spanning early alerts and anomaly detection, condition monitoring, preventive and predictive maintenance, digital twins and more – all of which help improve operations and increase return on investment.

 

Additions to the Nokia Industrial Application Catalog include:

• Atos Computer Vision - Quality Inspector: Part of the Eviden business within Atos Group, this solution uses artificial intelligence (AI) to provide applications which improve quality and productivity in manufacturing environments. It leverages modern deep learning to detect defects, foreign objects, anomalies, or incorrect setups with AI-based video analytics in real time. Enhanced by the new MXIE GPU capability, enterprises can quickly deliver models that achieve high accuracy even in challenging conditions.
• Crosser: The low code streaming analytics and integration platform for industrial IoT and industry 4.0. Users can access a rich library of pre-built modules and connectors to build Intelligent data flows and pipelines for preprocessing, analyzing and acting on industrial data. Live loops of streaming data can be created for ingesting transformed, ready-to-use data to any machine, service, cloud, IoT platform or digital twin.
• Litmus Edge: The industrial edge data platform that puts data to work for operations to transform at scale. Unifying data collection, normalization, contextualization, and analytics at the edge and cloud, Litmus Edge unlocks intelligence to improve efficiency and profitability. Nearly 300 pre-built device drivers and integrations for OT assets and enterprise systems, along with digital twin and machine learning models, make it easier to address asset monitoring, anomaly detection, energy consumption, forecasting, predictive maintenance and more.

• Palo Alto Networks Next-Gen Firewall: Advanced security powered by Palo Alto Networks. Palo Alto Networks software Next Generation Firewalls (VM-Series and CN-Series) deployed on MXIE uses AI and ML to prevent sophisticated cyber threats in the OT environment, without adding physical hardware to the network. The comprehensive solution has industry-leading capabilities such as Advanced Threat Prevention, which blocks unknown command-and-control and exploit attempts in real-time, Advanced WildFire, which stops highly evasive malware, DNS Security, which stops emerging DNS based attacks. Additionally, IoT/OT Security quickly profiles all OT, IT and IoT devices and assets, and protects them. This enables advanced security on both the IT and OT sides of the network to protect the entire organization with best-in-class security.

 

Today's news builds on Nokia's partnership with Kyndryl, the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, which has a focus on designing, deploying, and managing industry-leading LTE and 5G private wireless networks and Industry 4.0 solutions to enterprises worldwide. By combining Kyndryl's network and edge advisory and integration services with Nokia's private wireless networks, industrial customers can achieve high-performance wireless connectivity in mission-critical environments. As a converged compute platform, Nokia MXIE supports the core operation of private wireless networks and hosts a multitude of OT edge computing applications. By leveraging Nokia MXIE, Kyndryl is helping customers implement end-to-end industrial use cases with a single orchestrated on-premises edge for both private wireless and digitalization enablers. The automation and digitalization benefits, from predictive maintenance, better worker safety, to quality assurance enables smarter, leaner factory operations and improves sustainability across industrial verticals – from manufacturing, energy and gas, to mining.

 

Chris McReynolds, Vice President, Offering Management, Network and Edge Practice at Kyndryl, said: "We are pleased to expand our partnership with Nokia by integrating some of our customers' mission-critical applications – Litmus Edge and Palo Alto Next Gen Firewall – on the Nokia MX Industrial Edge. Advanced IIoT edge platforms that facilitate a holistic view of enterprise-wide data, along with advanced security, are fundamental to enterprises who are seeking to accelerate their digital transformation to meet Industry 4.0 standards and create maximum business value."

 

Stephan Litjens, Vice President of Enterprise Solutions at Nokia, said: "These new applications unlock operational technology data from their silos while maintaining data security and privacy, which asset-heavy, mission-critical environments require for digital transformation. As we continue to expand the Nokia Industrial Application Catalog and work with leading software vendors and cloud providers, our ecosystem-neutral approach for MXIE means enterprises can choose best-of-breed applications to support a range of industrial use cases. This ultimately improves efficiency, worker safety and sustainability in our customers' operations." 

 

Resources and additional information

Nokia MX Industrial Edge

Nokia MX Industrial Application Catalog

Kyndryl Network and Edge Computing

 

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Nokia to publish first-quarter financial report on 20 April 2023

    

 

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Nokia to publish first-quarter financial report on 20 April 2023

 

13 April 2023

Espoo, Finland – Nokia will publish its first-quarter financial results on 20 April 2023 at approximately 8 a.m. Finnish time (EEST). The financial report will be made available on the Nokia website immediately after publication.

 

Nokia only publishes a summary of its financial reports in stock exchange releases. The summary focuses on Nokia Group's financial information as well as on Nokia's outlook.

 

The detailed, segment-level discussion will be available in the complete financial report hosted at www.nokia.com/financials. A video interview summarizing the key points of our Q1 results will also be published on the website. Investors should not solely rely on summaries of Nokia's financial reports, but should also review the complete report with tables.

 

Analyst webcast

 

• Nokia's webcast will begin on 20 April 2023 at 11.30 a.m. Finnish time (EEST). The webcast will last approximately 60 minutes.
• The webcast will be a presentation followed by a Q&A session. Presentation slides will be available for download at www.nokia.com/financials.
• A link to the webcast will be available at www.nokia.com/financials.
• Media representatives can listen in via the link, or alternatively call +1-412-317-5619.

 

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Nokia selected by Zain Jordan for nationwide 5G

    

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Nokia selected by Zain Jordan for nationwide 5G

• Zain Jordan to deliver superior 5G connectivity nationwide to its customers  
• Deal supports digital transformation of Jordan and its economy
• Nokia to modernize Zain's existing network infrastructure and deploy 5G equipment based on its comprehensive AirScale Baseband and Radio portfolio

 

8 April 2023

 

Espoo, Finland – Nokia today announced that it has been selected by Zain Jordan in a multi-year deal to supply 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) equipment throughout Jordan. Through the deal, Zain will be able to support the digital transformation of the country by offering superior 5G services with enhanced connectivity and capacity to customers. A major part of the deployment is expected to be completed during 2023.

 

Under the deal, which totals over 3,000 sites nationwide, Nokia will provide the latest generation of its AirScale Baseband, Massive MIMO radios, and Remote Radio Head products. These are all powered by its energy-efficient ReefShark System on Chip (SoC) technology and combine to provide superior coverage and capacity. In parallel to deploying 5G, Nokia will also modernize Zain's existing 4G infrastructure.

 

Nokia has a long-standing partnership with Zain across several territories, including the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

 

Tommi Uitto, President of Mobile Networks at Nokia, said: "We are delighted to be partnering with Zain Jordan on this project to modernize their complete Radio Access Network and introduce 5G technology, and by doing so support the Jordanian Government's digital transformation objectives. The deployment of 5G is expected to stimulate the incubation and growth of new technologies and industries."

 

Resources and additional information

5G Radio Access Networks (RAN)

AirScale Radio Access

Nokia 5G

 

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Muutokset Nokia Oyj:n omien osakkeiden omistuksessa

    

Nokia Oyj

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5.4.2023 klo 16.00

Muutokset Nokia Oyj:n omien osakkeiden omistuksessa

Espoo – Nokia on tänään luovuttanut 313 788 yhtiön hallussa ollutta Nokian osaketta (NOKIA) vastikkeetta suorituksena Nokian osakepohjaisiin kannustinohjelmiin osallistuneille ohjelmien ehtojen mukaisesti. Osakkeiden luovutus perustuu 3.2.2022 julkistettuun hallituksen päätökseen yhtiön hallussa olevien osakkeiden antamisesta ohjelmien mukaisten sitoumusten täyttämiseksi.

 

Nokia Oyj:n hallussa olevien omien osakkeiden lukumäärä luovutuksen jälkeen on 52 690 204.

 

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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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Changes in Nokia Corporation's own shares

    

Nokia Corporation

Stock Exchange Release

5 April 2023 at 16:00 EEST

 

Changes in Nokia Corporation's own shares

Espoo, Finland – A total of 313 788 Nokia shares (NOKIA) held by the company were today transferred without consideration to participants of Nokia's equity-based incentive plans in accordance with the rules of the plans. The transfer is based on the resolution of the Board of Directors to issue shares held by the company to settle its commitments to participants of the plans as announced on 3 February 2022.

 

The number of own shares held by Nokia Corporation following the transfer is 52 690 204.

 

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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.

 

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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