26 February 2017
Barcelona, Spain - Nokia today outlined how the rapid
execution of its new strategy is delivering industry-leading
innovation for communication service providers in network speed,
agility and efficiency, while broadening the company's footprint in
faster-growing areas including software and the utilities and
transport markets.
On the eve of Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Nokia's
launches of solutions covering 5G, the Internet of Things (IoT),
software and cloud underscored the breadth and strength of a
product portfolio bolstered by the acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent in
2016.
"Nokia comes to Mobile World Congress this year with a bigger
and fully end-to-end portfolio to sell, and with groundbreaking
innovations to share," Nokia President and CEO Rajeev Suri
said.
"All of this is underpinned by an organization squarely focused
on the execution of our strategy to lead in high-performance
networks with communication service providers, expand to new
verticals, build a strong standalone software business and create
new business and licensing opportunities in the consumer
ecosystem," he said.
New products like 5G FIRST, announced today at the company's
press and analyst event in Barcelona, show Nokia's innovation
strength to deliver differentiated products that connect not only
millions of users but interconnect billions of things to create
what Nokia calls the 'global nervous system,' Suri added.
Showing the way in 5G and IoT5G FIRST, the industry's
first commercial 5G product and comprised of Nokia's AirScale radio
access platform, helps customers prepare for 5G-ready architectures
that cover core, software-defined networking, cloud and more. Nokia
and Intel will collaborate on commercial deployments later in 2017
using the Intel® 5G Modem. 5G FIRST cements Nokia's strong position
with communication service providers, helping them transition to
new applications that will benefit from the low-latency and high
data rates offered by 5G.
Reflecting those transition efforts, Suri announced at the press
and analyst event that Nokia had won a three-year contract from
Telefonica to boost the performance of its 4G network in London as
data demand grows. The deal includes Nokia 4.5G Pro technology,
powered by the Nokia AirScale Radio Access portfolio, Nokia Flexi
Zone small cells, the Nokia NetAct network management system, Nokia
Traffica real-time network analytics and Nokia Global Services.
Nokia's recent launch of WING, the worldwide IoT network grid,
is aimed at providing a full-service model offering IoT
connectivity across different technologies to manage a client's IoT
connectivity needs and assets, such as connected cars, as they move
around the globe. It follows the launch of a new wireless router to
bring electricity distribution networks into the IoT era and help
utilities reliably and securely connect and manage the
proliferation of field devices as more smart power grids are
deployed.
Those efforts show how Nokia is expanding into vertical markets
like energy, transportation, public safety and Webscales (big
Internet companies). Furthering the momentum in the vertical space,
Suri cited a contract win with Infraestruturas de Portugal to
provide a mission-critical communications network to the country's
national railway infrastructure operator; a high-speed fiber optic
network win with Xiaomi; and a demonstration with Qualcomm and GE
of a private LTE network for the Industrial Internet of Things
market.
Momentum in Cloud, software, and licensingNokia's
recently launched Cloud Packet Core enables fixed and wireless
technologies to be used together or individually to drive
ultra-broadband and IoT service delivery in multiple verticals,
including enterprise. Nokia has also enhanced its Intelligent
Management Platform for All Connected Things platform, or IMPACT,
with new IoT features such as video analytics.
The improved offering highlights Nokia's progress in delivering
on its third strategic focus area of building a strong standalone
software business and taking its largely network-agnostic software
assets beyond mobile customers and into fixed, cable, and new
vertical markets. Earlier this month, Nokia announced plans to buy
Comptel to boost its software portfolio and go-to-market
capabilities.
At MWC Nokia will demonstrate recently acquired Deepfield
analytics technology, which further bolsters its software offering
to communication service providers, cable operators, cloud,
Webscales and technological extra-large enterprises. Using
automation, Deepfield technology can identify and track around 30
000 popular cloud applications and services to help networks
quickly adapt to changes in application demand and traffic
patterns.
Nokia's efforts to create new business and licensing
opportunities in the consumer space - the fourth pillar of its
refreshed strategy - are also leading to fresh and important
developments. HMD Global, Nokia's exclusive brand licensee for
phones and tablets, will be making announcements later today.
Nokia at MWCNokia's presence at MWC involves the launch
of 22 products and services, along with over 60 product and service
demonstrations at the Nokia Experience Center in Hall 3, stand
3A10. The demonstrations include several related to 5G, some
involving racecars and robots. Nokia and China Mobile, the world's
biggest mobile operator by subscribers, will have a joint demo of
tele-health services and show how 5G products and services can be
integrated in different vertical industries.
Nokia will also give its perspective on a variety of important
issues, including a keynote speech by Suri on enabling the Fourth
Industrial Revolution. Nokia Chief Strategy Officer Kathrin
Buvac will discuss the path from 4G to 5G; and Marcus Weldon,
President of Nokia Bell Labs and Corporate Chief Technology
Officer, will discuss the future of technology and how the 5G era
will transform many dimensions of human life. Be sure to follow the
events, speakers and launches via social media on Twitter @Nokia
and #MWC17.
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