News and BusinessNokia is to upgrade Europe’s largest distributed internet exchange for NL-ix, to provide metro access and backbone transport for all NL-ix customer traffic across Europe. Nokia will supply its optical transport solutions to provide a new optical layer over NL-ix’s meshed interconnection fabric to enable capacity growth link scaling. The new network will support client […]
News and BusinessNokia says it has broken new ground with Vodafone Turkey with a regional demonstration of a 1Tbps per channel coherent transmission over the operator’s live optical network. The companies proved a capacity increase of 150% over a single channel coherent transmission, and the ability to scale network capacity up to 70Tbps per fibre. The optical […]
News and BusinessNokia has announced that Australian fibre and network solutions provider Vocus, has deployed Nokia’s solution to set up the 200G optical links covering more than 4,100 km between Brisbane and Darwin. Nokia’s 1830 Photonic Service Switch (PSS) has also been used to upgrade Vocus’ optical network between Adelaide, Brisbane and Darwin to deliver 200G with […]
News and BusinessNokia says it has been selected by Netherlands operator DELTA Fiber to provide a next-generation optical transport network, based on 400G wavelengths, to handle the operator’s increased traffic and further expansion of its FTTH rollout. The high-capacity network will offer customers enhanced service quality and speeds. It adds that 400Gbps speeds and higher wavelengths enable […]
News and BusinessNokia has announced it has successfully completed a trial with Vodafone Turkey, linking Asia and Europe with the first intercontinental 1Tbps clear-channel IP interface. The network capacity milestone is part of an ongoing modernisation effort to future-proof Vodafone Turkey’s IP architecture. Using Nokia’s 7950 XRS routers with terabit interfaces powered by Nokia’s FP4 chipset, the […]
Technologies and ProductsNokia, Ericsson, II-VI, Lumentum and Sumitomo Electric have jointly published a technical paper which recommends predefined optical blueprints for Mobile Optical Pluggables (MOPA) which connect cell sites to fibre networks. The companies say that streamlining the US$500 million MOPA eco-system will help industry focus on most relevant solutions and facilitate 5G rollouts. The first-time joint […]
News and BusinessNokia says it has been selected by Swisscom to transform the operator’s existing infrastructure to a fully automated and high-capacity optical transport network. Nokia is the sole supplier to build the end-to-end wavelength division multiplexing/optical transport network (WDM/OTN) nationwide, which will support Swisscom customers’ surging bandwidth demands driven by an increase in remote work and […]
News and BusinessDeutsche Telekom has chosen Nokia as a long-term strategic partner to transform the operator’s optical network into a service-centric platform that can scale to meet Industry 4.0 demands. Nokia says the transformation will enable Deutsche Telekom to deliver an enhanced service quality experience to its customers by upgrading the existing network to a more scalable […]
Technologies and ProductsNokia says it has achieved a major network capacity milestone with its long-standing partner Elisa while preparing the operator’s network for the future. Through a live commercial trial, the companies are proving the world’s first 1T clear-channel interface deployment to efficiently scale Elisa’s network to support new applications and access technologies. Elisa upgraded some […]
News and BusinessNokia has announced it has been awarded a contract with Open Fiber, Italy’s wholesale infrastructure operator, to supply optical transport technology for the expansion of the provider’s FTTH Ultra-BroadBand (UBB) network nationwide. Nokia is supporting Open Fiber’s commitment to build a fully fibre optical UBB network to connect more than 6,000 municipalities in all the […]
News and BusinessNokia has announced that the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), the largest utility company in the world, will deploy a programmable optical network using Nokia’s IP/Optical solutions. The deployment will allow SGCC to expand network coverage to more power stations and business offices, while also increasing capacity and flexibility. The deployment covers new deployments […]
News and BusinessNokia has announced plans to sell off its cable access portfolio to Canada-based Vecima for an undisclosed sum. The deal covers Nokia’s Unified Cable Access solution, which includes the Gainspeed portfolio of products, a centrally controlled Distributed Access Architecture (DAA) solution with unified support for Flexible MAC DAA nodes for Hybrid Fiber-Coaxial (HFC) networks and […]
News and BusinessSri Lanka Telecom PLC (SLT), one of the leading telecom service providers in Sri Lanka, will deploy an FTTH network based on Nokia’s fibre technology. Supporting its accelerated fibre initiative, the deployment enables SLT to bring high-speed broadband services to more than 200,000 enterprise and residential users across the country. SLT is rapidly enhancing its […]
News and BusinessOrange and Nokia say they have achieved the successful completion of a trial testing fifth generation Photonic Service Engine (PSE-V) chipsets over a live transmission on the Orange network in June 2020. Among the direct applications of this technology, there will be possibilities to support the new ultra-high bitrate services over long distance networks and […]
News and BusinessNational Broadband Ireland (NBI) has selected Nokia to design, build, and operate a nation-wide full fibre network, including FTTH, in the Republic of Ireland, following a call for bids. The project will fulfil Irish Government’s National Broadband Plan which aims provide high-speed connectivity to all of Ireland’s population, including 23% of whom currently live in […]
News and BusinessNokia today announced that Openreach will deploy its fibre solutions to help meet its target of bringing ultra-fast and reliable broadband access to 20 million homes across the UK by the mid-to-late 2020s. The fibre rollout with Nokia underpins Openreach’s commitment to build a world-class, secure broadband network that can deliver differentiated customer experiences and […]
Technologies and ProductsNokia has launched its WaveFabric Elements portfolio of photonic chips, devices and subsystems, including its fifth-generation coherent digital signal processor family, the Photonic Service Engine V (PSE-V). WaveFabric Elements portfolio combines digital signal processing (DSP) and optics technologies focused on emerging end-to-end 400G applications, allowing the company to optimise the entire electro-optic engine that powers […]
News and BusinessJapan’s newest mobile carrier, Rakuten Mobile, will deploy Nokia’s 1830 Photonic Service Switch to power its reconfigurable photonic mesh mobile backhaul network. The carrier is set to launch the world’s first end-to-end fully virtualised cloud-native 5G mobile network, and the deployment of Nokia’s coherent and optical component technologies is designed to enable the ready growth of network bandwidth […]
News and BusinessNokia is acquiring Elenion Technologies, a US-based company focusing on silicon photonics technology, to boost its optical capabilities in new markets. Elenion’s technology expertise and unique design platform and services will enable Nokia to expand its market footprint by addressing the critical and rapidly evolving optical connectivity requirements of 5G, cloud and enterprise networking, Nokia […]
News and BusinessWholesale and corporate ICT service provider Angola Cables is trialling Nokia’s Photonic Service Engine (PSE-3) chipset for the first direct optical connection between the USA and Africa.. The new route is designed to provide direct, low-latency trans-Atlantic routing and greatly simplify the turn-up of services to better serve rapidly growing data consumption markets in Africa. […]