Nokia and Ooredoo Qatar achieve private wireless network milestone for energy sector in MEA

    

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Nokia and Ooredoo Qatar achieve private wireless network milestone for energy sector in MEA

 

22 November 2023

 

Doha, Qatar – Nokia and Ooredoo Qatar have successfully reached a significant milestone by establishing the Middle East and Africa (MEA)'s first private wireless network in the region for the energy sector. The first-of-its-kind project will provide dedicated voice and customer data services in the most remote and challenging locations.

 

The deployed solution covers an initial capacity of 20,000 subscribers for the offshore grid. It aims to connect offshore and onshore facilities, ensuring seamless voice and data services. By offering dedicated connectivity, this network will empower customers to digitalize and automate operations, marking a significant step towards enhanced efficiency and productivity.

 

Nokia will supply cutting-edge products tailored to deliver resilient mission-critical connectivity, along with deployment and care services, with its resident engineers providing expert support to ensure the network operates at optimal level.

 

The solution offers a native offshore system designed to deliver services, seamlessly integrating with the existing commercial core, enabling customers to improve operational efficiency and reduce interruptions from onshore connectivity. The integration equally enables the efficient handling of interoperability and interservice handovers, making communication between offshore and onshore locations smoother and more reliable than ever before, while managing latency issues through localized data services to improve process efficiency. It will also improve customer experience, by replacing older Wi-Fi and WiMAX technologies.

 

Günther Ottendorfer, CTIO at Ooredoo Qatar, said: "This significant milestone underlines our commitment to transforming communication solutions for challenging environments. This landmark project provides dedicated voice and data services and paves the way for the oil and gas sector and others to replicate such solutions, marking a new era in connectivity for the industry."

 

Samar Mittal, VP, Cloud and Network Services (CNS), Global Business Center (GBC) at Nokia MEA, said: "This Nokia enterprise solution, specifically designed for offshore locations, coupled with our delivery capabilities and expertise, ensures that the energy sector can now rely on a robust and resilient connectivity solution. Through this partnership with Ooredoo Qatar, we are setting new benchmarks for innovation, efficiency and reliability."

Nokia has deployed mission-critical networks to more than 2,600 leading enterprise customers in the transportation, energy, large enterprise, manufacturing, webscale and public sector segments around the globe. The company has also extended its expertise to more than 675 private wireless customers worldwide and has been cited as the leading provider of private industrial grade wireless networking worldwide by numerous industry analysts.

 

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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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About Ooredoo Qatar

Ooredoo is Qatar's leading communications company, delivering mobile, fixed, broadband internet and corporate managed services tailored to the needs of consumers and businesses. As a community-focused company, Ooredoo is guided by its vision of enriching people's lives and its belief that it can stimulate human growth by leveraging communications to help people achieve their full potential.

 

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Nokia supercharges AI with Ultra Ethernet

    

 

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Nokia supercharges AI with Ultra Ethernet

• Nokia working with Ultra Ethernet Consortium to develop an open networking standard to address demanding networking requirements of high-performance computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads
• Nokia leadership in Ethernet networking and standards development to help to shape Ultra Ethernet as highly compatible, low cost and interoperable part of AI and HPC application stacks

 

21 November 2023

 

Espoo, Finland – Nokia today announced its support for the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC), a group that brings together companies for industry-wide cooperation to develop Ethernet specifications and software APIs that empower AI and HPC environments. Nokia will bring its technology leadership in building super scalable, low latency deterministic networks for data centers and data center interconnect to the definition of the Ultra Ethernet standard being developed by the UEC.

 

The AI revolution is not only driving the need for expanded computing resources, it's also driving changes to networks, especially those connecting computing clusters for HPC used in AI training and inference. The near-universal protocol for data networks, Ethernet is the ideal place to start for meeting the broad performance needs of AI. With Nokia's support, the UEC will develop new standards, best practices and architectures for specialized AI data center networks.

 

As a leader in providing super scalable, low latency network solutions for data center and data center interconnect, Nokia will bring its extensive expertise to bear on defining Ultra Ethernet. The company will leverage its deep understanding of web, enterprise and service provider networks by contributing to several UEC working groups, where it will help ensure that Ultra Ethernet will meet the critical needs of all its customers.

 

J Metz, Chair of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium, said: "The UEC welcomes Nokia's deep experience and expertise in building some of the world's highest-performing networks. Together with a broad ecosystem of consortium partners, our goal is to provide an open, interoperable standard that allows networks to be upgraded easily and inexpensively to meet the needs of AI and HPC applications. With strong partners like Nokia, we know the UEC will drive the kind of standard to ensure broad AI adoption."

 

Vach Kompella, Head of Nokia's IP business, said: "Generative AI and ML are revolutionizing every aspect of our customers' businesses. Our networking solutions advance their ability to deploy AI quickly and pursue exciting new use cases and applications. With our extensive footprint in communications, enterprise and webscale networks, we are focused on making Ultra Ethernet a highly compatible, low cost and interoperable part of future AI and HPC application stacks."

 

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Nokia moves to 100% recyclable packaging for its Fixed Networks Lightspan portfolio

    

 

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Nokia moves to 100% recyclable packaging for its Fixed Networks Lightspan portfolio

• Move reduces packaging waste for its broadband access products
• New packaging is 60% smaller, 44% lighter, reducing CO2 emissions by up to 60%
• Nokia's commitment to sustainability supports Deutsche Telekom's circularity goals for its supply chain

 

21 November, 2023

Espoo, Finland – Nokia today announced that it is moving to 100% recyclable packaging for its entire Lightspan portfolio of broadband access nodes by the end of 2023. This builds on Nokia's commitment to implement more sustainable, environmentally friendly packaging. Nokia introduced eco-friendly product packaging in 2022, for its broadband customer premises equipment.

 

Nokia's new packaging eliminates non-biodegradable foam, plastic, bleaching, toxic materials and chemical treatments. It replaces protective plastic covers with a biodegradable version. The buffer material which protects the product from dropping damage, is made from fully recyclable carboard components in compliance with the Forest Stewardship Council. In addition, the packaging is designed for reuse in return shipments.

 

Nokia used this eco-friendly packaging to deliver a new generation of gigabit-speed G.fast access nodes to Deutsche Telekom, featuring a more compact and lightweight design. This will lead to a 60% decrease in packaging size and a 44% reduction in the overall weight. This will enable Nokia to ship more products per pallet and can reduce CO2 emissions from transportation by up to 60%.

 

Arash Ashouriha, SVP Group Technology Innovation at Deutsche Telekom, said: "Deutsche Telekom has set ambitious circularity goals for 2030. We focus on the entire lifecycle of our products and everything we buy from our technology suppliers. We have already taken out all single-use plastics in the packing of our own 'T'-branded devices. The collaboration with our technology suppliers like Nokia on innovative ways of sustainable packaging is therefore an essential next step."

 

Geert Heyninck, Head of Broadband Networks for Fixed at Nokia, said: "Eco-friendly product packaging is a major contributor to our climate and environmental ambitions. By using 100% recyclable materials we help to reduce waste and contribute to a circular economy. The packaging is also more compact, which allows more efficient transport and further reduces CO2 emissions by up to 60%."

 

In 2022 Nokia won 6 Red Dot Awards, including their 'Best of the Best' distinction, and 8 iF Awards for the Nokia Networks Sustainable Packaging System that uses organic, biodegradable material and reduces transport cost as well as waste disposal.

 

Nokia has committed to Science Based Targets through which the company aims to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 50% by 2030. It is in line with limiting global warming to 1.5°C by 2030 and reaching net zero by 2050. 

 

Resources and additional information

Blog: Designing broadband equipment for maximum eco-sustainability | Nokia

 

 

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Nokia builds multi-terabit pan-Indian optical network for Bharti Airtel

    

 

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Nokia builds multi-terabit pan-Indian optical network for Bharti Airtel

• Bharti Airtel will deploy Nokia's Optical Transport Network (OTN) technology across its nationwide footprint.
• Revamped optical network will transform India's digital infrastructure and enable Bharti Airtel to provide massive capacity to enterprises, operators and hyperscalers.
• New optical network allows enterprises to thrive in the growing digital economy.
  
  

21 November 2023

New Delhi, India – Nokia today announced it has entered into an agreement with Bharti Ltd (Airtel) to deploy a next-generation optical transport network that will provide additional capacity, higher reliability and lower cost, enabling superior services for Airtel's customers. As part of the agreement, Airtel will utilize Nokia's 1830 PSS-x OTN switches in its National Long-Distance Network connecting major cities across India.

 

The launch of 5G networks and the push for broadband connectivity across India is increasing demands for Communications Service Providers (CSPs), including augmentation of backhaul transport for denser 5G mobile networks, wholesale connectivity for new segments like smart grids, datacenter interconnect (DCI) and other business services. To address this exponential growth in traffic demand, transport networks need to be upgraded to increase overall transport capacity and bandwidth efficiency using high capacity OTN switching and utilizing additional spectrum including the L-band wavelengths of the fiber. The increased capacity will mean that Bharti can potentially deliver faster and more reliable broadband services and be ready for new use cases. 

 

The Nokia OTN solution enables Bharti Airtel to seamlessly upgrade its legacy transport switching infrastructure across its pan-Indian network footprint to meet new transport network traffic demands while improving both the performance and reliability of its network. 

 

Chandan Kumar, Head of Optical Network Business Centre for Nokia India , said: "As a world leader in OTN, our technology will help Airtel to increase the capacity and features of Bharti's optical transport network to meet growing bandwidth demand driven by the enterprise and hyperscaler segments. It will also provide the service level performance to meet the strict SLAs from Airtel customers".

 

 

 

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Webpage: 1830 PSS-x P-OTN Switching

 

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Nokia deploys energy-efficient multi-supplier O-RAN 5G network with NTT DOCOMO

    

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Nokia deploys energy-efficient multi-supplier O-RAN 5G network with NTT DOCOMO

• Nokia's high-performance Open RAN compliant AirScale portfolio deployed in NTT DOCOMO's commercial multi-vendor network; Integrated with third-party Radio suppliers 
• Nokia's energy-efficient AirScale portfolio to support NTT DOCOMO's sustainability objectives
• Successful deployment highlights the maturity and performance of Nokia's O-RAN CU/DU; Confirms Nokia's industry leadership through its anyRAN approach which offers mobile operators more choice in building 5G networks  
• Both companies committed to building open and interoperable networks

20 November 2023

 

Espoo, Finland – Nokia today announced that Japanese mobile operator, NTT DOCOMO (DOCOMO) is deploying Nokia's Open RAN (O-RAN) compliant 5G AirScale baseband solution including Centralized Unit (CU) and Distributed Unit (DU) software in its commercial network nationwide. Nokia's high-capacity, high-performance solution enables DOCOMO to pursue a multi-supplier strategy, giving them the option to connect with Open Radio Units (RU) delivered by other suppliers. Nokia's low-power, energy-efficient AirScale portfolio will also help DOCOMO drive significant sustainability benefits as well as a lower total cost of ownership.

 

Nokia will deploy its fully O-RAN-compliant 5G AirScale baseband solution in DOCOMO's commercial network. Nokia's energy-efficient solution powered by the latest ReefShark System-on-Chip technology will also deliver sustainability benefits as well as operational cost savings to DOCOMO due to its small footprint and low power consumption. Nokia and DOCOMO are long-term supporters of open networks and have invested heavily to advance the goals of the O-RAN alliance to build open, interoperable, and responsive networks that fulfill the requirements of enterprise and consumer demand in the 5G era.

 

Nokia has a long history of partnering with DOCOMO as the RAN provider for its 3G network as well as helping the operator establish a multi-supplier 4G strategy. Both companies are taking their strategic collaboration and partnership to the next level with the deployment of the O-RAN-compliant 5G network. DOCOMO is committed to supporting global telecom operators in their adoption of Open RAN to make Open RAN a commercial reality.

 

This partnership with DOCOMO is a perfect example of Nokia's anyRAN approach, which aims to build future-ready radio access networks together with an ecosystem of industry partners to unlock collaborative advantage. Nokia anyRAN is designed to give mobile operators and enterprises more flexibility in building networks that combine purpose-built, hybrid, and Cloud RAN environments with common software. For Open RAN, Nokia develops the required Open Fronthaul features on top of its high-performance RAN software, ensuring co-existence and feature performance parity with purpose-built RAN. Nokia baseband solutions can be combined with both Nokia and third-party radios. For operators, this ensures a smooth evolution path towards hybrid, Cloud RAN, and O-RAN deployments.

 

Masafumi Masuda, General Manager of Radio Access Network Technology Promotion Office, NTT DOCOMO, INC, commented: "Nokia's O-RAN compatible AirScale 5G Baseband solution is extremely competitive and is capable of being connected to any O-RUs on NTT DOCOMO's 5G commercial network. Its high performance and low power consumption will also reduce our operational costs and support our sustainability goals. We are excited to continue this journey with Nokia, who have been with us every step of the way as we move towards more open networks."

 

Mark Atkinson, Head of RAN at Nokia, said: "Nokia is fully committed to Open RAN and is helping its customers fulfill their Open RAN objectives. We have taken steps to ensure that our industry-leading radio access portfolio can seamlessly integrate and interoperate with products from other suppliers. Together with our ecosystem of partners, we are providing more choice and higher performance in Open RAN solutions to our customers than they will see from other RAN suppliers. We are excited to continue this journey with our long-term partner, NTT DOCOMO, and help them achieve their objective of delivering open networks."

 

Resources

Webpage: Nokia AirScale Cloud RAN

Webpage: Nokia anyRAN

Webpage: Nokia AirScale Baseband  

Whitepaper: Cloud RAN: A Guide to Acceleration Options

Executive Summary: Nokia Cloud RAN and Open RAN Solution Roadmap

Blog: In-Line architecture: bringing efficiency and performance to Cloud RAN

Blog: The collaborative advantage: Nokia and partners delivering best-in-class Cloud RAN solutions

 

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Nokia AVA Energy Efficiency in SaaS model selected by Globe Telecom Philippines to cut network power use

    

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Nokia AVA Energy Efficiency in SaaS model selected by Globe Telecom Philippines to cut network power use

• Nokia AVA for Energy Efficiency SaaS uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to reduce energy consumption across the network while maintaining network performance
• Deal expands existing strategic partnership between the two companies 

20 November 2023

Espoo, Finland – Nokia today announced that its AVA Energy Efficiency software, to be delivered in a SaaS delivery model, has been selected by Globe Telecom to help the Philippine communication service provider drive lower network power consumption and costs. 

Nokia AVA for Energy SaaS, using artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms, will enable Globe to shut idle and unused equipment automatically during low usage periods. The solution delivers these operational and cost benefits while maintaining network quality.

Deploying this solution through a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model will allow Globe to consume the solution purely on demand through a subscription, with faster service delivery and time-to-value. This model also eliminates large up front capital expenditure and avoids the need to perform on-site software maintenance and updates. 

Globe realized an equivalent annual power savings of around 3-6 percent in a proof of concept using Nokia's AVA Energy Efficiency software together with the power saving feature of the radio access network.

Nokia has a growing list of more than 50 completed or active energy saving projects with CSPs around the world, as operators increasingly look to cut energy costs and address environmental sustainability issues in their networks.

Susanna Patja, APJ Market Leader, Cloud and Network Services, at Nokia said: "Network energy consumption is an issue that will only continue to grow in importance for CSPs as they step up their efforts to harmonize network efficiency and environmental objectives. Nokia is excited to support Globe Telecom's efforts to shrink the carbon footprint of the telco industry. Nokia AVA for Energy SaaS represents not only what we're doing with AI to unlock the strategic potential of networks but also Nokia's commitment to cut emissions across our value chain."

Yoly Crisanto, Chief Sustainability and Corporate Communications Officer of the Globe Group, said: "We're very pleased to expand our partnership with Nokia through its AVA for Energy SaaS solution. Efficient energy consumption is a strategic imperative for our network decarbonization initiatives and net zero targets. Deploying this solution will help reduce power costs, with no impact to  customer experience." 

Resources and additional information

Webpage: Nokia AVA Energy efficiency

Webpage: Nokia Telecom SaaS

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Swisscom and Nokia begin service migration to new high-capacity optical transport network

    

 

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Swisscom and Nokia begin service migration to new high-capacity optical transport network

• Nokia single supplier for Swisscom's nationwide optical transport project NEWTON
• Swisscom's new optical network supports client services from 1G to 400G with massive scale, resiliency and performance at reduced total cost of ownership

 

16 November 2023

 

Espoo, Finland – Swisscom and Nokia today announced the successful completion of Swisscom's nationwide Next Evolution Wavelength Transport Optical Network (NEWTON) and the official start of service migration to the modernized network. Facing high traffic growth and digital transformation, the Nokia optical networking solution equips Switzerland's largest telecom provider with a service-centric network optimized for high performance, cost efficiency and superior customer experience.

 

The surge in remote work and learning applications, video streaming, gaming, and cloud computing intensified Swisscom's goal in 2021 to bolster support for business-critical fixed and wireless traffic. The carrier selected Nokia's portfolio of optical networking hardware, software and professional services for the entire transformation which included the rollout of 22 backbone sites and 560 metro sites.

 

With the deployment completed ahead of schedule, Swisscom and Nokia will now jointly manage the migration of services to the modernized network. The new optical network will transport all of Swisscom's fixed and wireless traffic from customer-provided equipment to metro access to the backbone, supporting client services from 1G to 400G, and efficiently aggregating and managing traffic from end-to-end while maximizing fiber usage. The solution will address massive traffic growth by eliminating repetitive tasks, accelerating service delivery, and reducing overall ownership costs. Appreciably lower power consumption – a significant innovation in the Nokia optical portfolio – is also contributing to Swisscom's corporate sustainability goals by reducing its carbon footprint.

 

Christoph Aeschlimann, CEO at Swisscom, said: "The transformation of Swisscom's optical network is essential for our future digitalization. Through the partnership with Nokia, we have a network that can quickly adapt to changes and provide superior service to our customers while contributing to our sustainability goals. We are pleased to move to this next stage of service migration, working together with Nokia as our trusted partner."

 

Federico Guillén, President of Network Infrastructure, Nokia, said: "We are proud to partner with Swisscom on the modernization of its optical transport network, and to deliver in record time during a period of tremendous global uncertainty. This is a showcase service-centric network, fully leveraging automation to streamline service delivery and minimize costs, even as it effortlessly scales to support surging customer traffic demands."

 

Swisscom selected Nokia's portfolio of optical networking hardware, software and professional services for the entire transformation, including the Nokia Photonic Service Engine (PSE)-V powered 1830 family of Wavelength Division Multiplexing/Optical Transport Networking (WDM/OTN) platforms, and the WaveSuite portfolio of networking applications.

 

 

Resources and additional information

Video: How Swisscom is investing in its optical network to bolster performance

Case study: Swisscom modernizes nationwide optical network with WDM/OTN technology

Webpage: 1830 Photonic Service Switch (PSS)

Webpage: 1830 PSS-x P-OTN Switching (PSS-x)

Webpage: 1830 Optical Network Extender (ONE)

Webpage: 1830 Photonic Service Demarcation (PSD)

Webpage: WaveLite Optical Networking

Webpage: WaveSuite applications

 

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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.

 

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Nokia partners with Mavenir to prove Open RAN system performance

    

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Nokia partners with Mavenir to prove Open RAN system performance 

• Interoperability testing has been successfully completed between Nokia Baseband (DU/CU) and Mavenir Radio Unit (O-RU) using the O-RAN Alliance 7-2x fronthaul interface
• Testing was completed at Nokia's Open RAN Innovation Center in Dallas, Texas
• Nokia has now integrated four Radio (O-RU) suppliers highlighting the openness and industry-leading performance of Nokia's AirScale O-RAN DU/CU
• This step reaffirms Nokia's tangible commitment to Open RAN through its anyRAN approach, which offers mobile operators more choices in building 5G networks  

 

15 November 2023

Espoo, Finland – Nokia today announced that they have successfully completed interoperability testing with a Mavenir radio using the O-RAN Alliance 7-2x interface at Nokia's Open RAN Innovation Center in Dallas, Texas.

During the trial, both companies validated the interoperability of Mavenir's CBRS Radio Unit and Nokia AirScale Baseband supporting the O-RAN compliant 7.2x interface. The testing was performed according to O-RAN Alliance specifications, demonstrating end-to-end configurations with 5G user devices. Nokia and Mavenir are able to demonstrate 5G peak performance by activating 4CC Carrier Aggregation using TDD and FDD spectrum in a 5G Standalone configuration.

Nokia's anyRAN approach is designed to give mobile operators and enterprises more flexibility in building networks that combine purpose-built, hybrid, and Cloud RAN architectures with common software. Nokia is supporting Open Fronthaul features on top of its high-performance RAN software which ensures mobile operators have performance parity with their existing RAN.

Nokia and Mavenir are long-term supporters of open networks and have invested heavily to advance the goals of the O-RAN Alliance to build open, interoperable, and intelligent networks. This industry milestone highlights both parties' ongoing commitment to open interfaces as well as their investment in R&D in the U.S. market.

John Baker, SVP, Business Development at Mavenir, commented: "This solution demonstrates a full circle of O-RAN interoperability whereby our industry-leading RAN portfolio integrates and interoperates in both directions with products from other RAN suppliers. This is real Open RAN – not the version where one supplier only connects their own products to each other. It is a great credit to both teams that they could integrate our Radio with Nokia's Baseband in record time."

Mark Atkinson, Head of RAN at Nokia, said: "Our technology collaboration with Mavenir is further evidence of our commitment to Open RAN. We have developed our baseband software in a way that ensures that multi-supplier O-RAN systems can be deployed without compromises in performance, energy efficiency, security, or resiliency. This is key when people depend on wireless connectivity in all aspects of their daily lives. We have now completed operability with Radios from four different suppliers using the O-RAN compliant 7.2x interface." 

 

Resources

Webpage: Nokia AirScale Cloud RAN

Webpage: Nokia anyRAN

Webpage: Nokia AirScale Baseband  

Whitepaper: Cloud RAN: A Guide to Acceleration Options

Executive Summary: Nokia Cloud RAN and Open RAN Solution Roadmap

Blog: In-Line architecture: bringing efficiency and performance to Cloud RAN

Blog: The collaborative advantage: Nokia and partners delivering best-in-class Cloud RAN solutions

 

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.

 

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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