Nokia to modernize private nationwide LTE network for Finland's Ukkoverkot, supporting industrial and public safety services
September 19 2017 - 06:01AM
Press Release
- New mobile network supports Ukkoverkot customers including
industrial IoT market, critical communications customers and
private LTE-based network clientele, all seeking to capitalize on
opportunies of digitalization
- Solution includes Nokia's 450MHz LTE, deployed for the first
time in Finland
- Ukkoverkot has signed Finnish airport operator Finavia as their
first micro-operator customer, building private LTE network for
Helsinki airport with Nokia technology
- Contract underlines Nokia's increasing momentum around
expanding into new vertical markets
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September, 2017
Espoo, Finland - Nokia is to completely modernize the
nationwide LTE network for Ukkoverkot, the Finnish private network
operator offering wireless data communications services for
infrastructure operators, the industrial IoT market, public safety
authorities, the maritime industry and both residents and
enterprises in remote areas. The new network will be powered by
Nokia's leading LTE solution, which provides superior network
quality, capacity, security and reliability required for such
specialized use cases.
Founded in 2014, Ukkoverkot operates its own LTE-based mobile
data network and a number of local private LTE networks, offering
fast connections using the 450 MHz and 2.6 GHz spectrum bands.
Ukkoverkot's low-frequency nationwide network is largely reserved
for the use of its industrial and public safety customers, which
helps ensure exceptional network stability and reliability, while
its high frequency network is reserved for private micro-operator
networks. As a pure broadband operator, Ukkoverkot's network
exclusively carries data services.
Starting in Q4 2017, Nokia will upgrade Ukkoverkot's
older-generation network technology to Nokia's state-of-the-art
LTE-based solution, which significantly improves network
performance. This enables Ukkoverkot's customers in industrial IoT
settings to capitalize on opportunities related to new Industry
4.0. applications, while critical communications and public safety
operators can benefit from ultra-reliable, high-bandwidth services
supporting all standardized public safety features. Due to better
propagation characteristics, low-band spectrum can provide a larger
coverage area than high-band spectrum, which makes Nokia's 450 MHz
LTE network solution ideal for delivering services in sparsely
populated areas such as the Nordic countries.
This agreement highlights Nokia's growing momentum around the
delivery of critical communications networks for customers outside
of the traditional communications service provider market. Large
industrial and public sector organizations are seeking robust,
reliable and highly resilient networks to support services on which
- in some cases - lives depend, and Nokia's solutions are ideally
suited to addressing this challenge.
Harri Karjalainen, CIO of Finnish airport operator
Finavia, said: "We are delighted to be among the first using
a private LTE network in Finland, supporting our current and future
connectivity needs and strategy at the Helsinki airport - the
largest in the country. Ukkoverkot and the Nokia solution currently
being rolled out is unique; we expect it to provide unprecedented
capacity and resilience for our critical airport services."
Mikko Uusitalo, CEO of Ukkoverkot, said: "Ukkoverkot is
totally focused on serving our customers, for whom connectivity
means the world. The agreement with Nokia enables us to roll out
the most advanced public protection, IoT and campus network
functions as they are available. The agreement with Finavia to
develop their airport infrastructure on Nokia technology is clear
testimony to the potential we have."
Thorsten Robrecht, head of Advanced Mobile Network Solutions
at Nokia, said: "With their LTE network based on Nokia's wide
portfolio of technologies, Ukkoverkot brings the benefits of
broadband data to the reach of new customer segments such as the
industrial IoT market and public safety authorities. We are proud
to team up with Ukkoverkot in its network modernization to ensure
these customers can benefit from first-class network quality, and
to prepare them for the services enabled by future 5G
networks."
About the solution
- Solution includes Nokia's LTE 450, deployed for the first time
in Finland
- Nokia's TD-LTE 2600 and Nokia Compact Network
solutions
- Nokia FastMile solution combining a specific fixed wireless
radio antenna topology solution with interference mitigation
techniques, along with an end user home modem that has a high gain,
self turning, directional beamforming antenna. These are all
installable by using smart phone application for consumers and
operator Point of Sale locations to ease and speed the deployment
of FastMile to end users and micro-operators anywhere in
Finland.
- Nokia FastMile solution provides up to 12X typical coverage
area and 3x throughput compared to standard mobile broadband
network.
- NetAct Compact virtualized mobile network management system
optimized for smaller networks delivers the core capabilities that
Nokia NetAct provides for large networks for troubleshooting,
assurance, administration, software management and configuration
management.
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About UkkoverkotDigitalization is a global megatrend that
changes the world permanently. With superfast fiber connections,
5G, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and digitalized
services our industrial world is developing faster than ever
before. However what is often forgotten, is that all this is
actually very local. Every device, machine and person needs be
connected for being part of the new world and services. And in some
cases even for surviving. And not only connected, but provided with
good, reliable and safe connections.
Ukkoverkot was founded for that need. In this industry of
generalists, we are committed to provide connections that work
anywhere. Connections that rely on our unique network assets that
are dedicated for our demanding customers only. We provide
solutions that enable the benefits of digitalization for even the
most demanding of users, from critical connections to most remote
areas. www.ukkoverkot.fi
Media Inquiries:Nokia Communications Phone: +358 10
448 4900 Email: press.services@nokia.com
UkkoverkotMikko UusitaloPhone: +358 40 455 0480Email:
mikko.uusitalo@ukkoverkot.fi
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