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. […]
Technologies and ProductsNokia has introduced the 1830 Time-sensitive Packet Switch (TPS) family of time-sensitive networking (TSN) switches, which reduce the cost and complexity of Cloud RAN deployments by enabling packet-based transport for mobile fronthaul. The new family of switches transparently supports a mix of existing and new radio interface protocols, unifying mobile transport for 4G and 5G […]
Technologies and ProductsNokia has set a capacity record during the world’s first field trial of single-carrier terabit-per-second data transmission on a deployed fibre network. The trial successfully transmitted a record 50.8 terabits per second using multiple wavelengths, each with a net information rate of 1.3 terabits per second, over a 93-km fibre route of Etisalat’s wavelength division […]
Technologies and ProductsChina Unicom has chosen Nokia’s optical fronthaul solution to power 4G and 5G networks being deployed in Beijing. The deal supports the Chinese operator’s ambitious commitment to deliver 5G in the 2019 timeframe. Part of the Nokia end-to-end 5G portfolio, the solution will be used to accelerate the deployment of 4G and 5G base stations and […]
News and BusinessLebanese state-run fixed network services provider Ogero is among the first operators globally to commercially trial Nokia’s Fixed Access Network Slicing (FANS) virtualisation system. The Nokia solution is designed to help solve the challenge of fixed infrastructure sharing and enable Ogero to create several discrete network slices over its existing FTTH network in a fully […]
Technologies and ProductsNokia and Polish service provider Netia have conducted the first field trial of Photonic Service Engine 3 (PSE-3) super coherent technology over a live production network. Netia’s state-of-the-art Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) backbone based on the Nokia 1830 Photonic Service Switch (PSS) with flex-grid technology enables a seamless upgrade to high baud-rate wavelengths, allowing the […]
Technologies and ProductsIn preparation for the roll-out of its state-of-the-art Bavarian WDM network, German operator M-net has become the first carrier to trial Nokia’s Photonic Service Engine 3 (PSE 3) coherent digital signal processing technology. The PSE-3 is the first DSP to implement probabilistic constellation shaping (PCS), a complex signal processing technique pioneered by Bell Labs which […]
News and BusinessItalian wholesale broadband provider Open Fiber, has selected Nokia for a FTTH rollout that will bring ultra-broadband services to the small towns and rural areas of Italy. The Open Fiber network will bring optical fibre from a point of presence to the customer’s home and deliver speeds of up to 1Gbps. In line with the […]
Technologies and ProductsNokia has launched WaveSuite, a collection of open API’s aimed at virtualising optical networking operations. The suite of applications gives network operators the ability to virtualise and better monetise their optical infrastructure, enabling network-as-a-service business models which can be used to support new channels to market It also implements the new MEF (Metro Ethernet Forum) […]
News and BusinessIn a multi vendor deal to provide metro and provincial area optical backbones, China Telecom has awarded the largest share of the contract to Nokia. The overall deal is to roll out an integrated IP/optical transport network for a 13-city metro area and two provincial backbone networks, with Nokia winning 50% of the spoils. The […]
News and BusinessBASE event in Athens at the end of March brought together more than 300 delegates from entire “broadband value chain”. A new concept of broadband is on target to be achieved as the industry experiences an era of unparalleled change and challenge, and networks transform to meet the opportunities of 5G, “cloudification”, the Internet of […]
Applications and ResearchPictured, left, the Monarch project launch in July 2017. • 5G-MoNArch project coordinated by Nokia as part of Phase II of the European 5G-PPP initiative • 5G mobile architecture put into practice with industry-led use cases • 14 research institute partners co-operate in this flagship project Nokia has formally launched the 5G MoNArch (5G Mobile […]
News and BusinessMeeting growing customer interest in 5G, Nokia is broadening its focus into multiple areas of early 5G mobility use cases, including enhanced mobile broadband and ultra-reliable, ultra-low latency communications. Nokia says it will be pushing for accelerated 3GPP industry standardization while building on early customer experiences with its Nokia 5G FIRST end-to-end solution, launched in […]
News and BusinessNokia has unveiled its latest IP routers powered by its FP4 network processor chipset that has taken six years to develop. The IP edge and core routers that will use the FP4 network processor include the 7750 Service Router (SR-s) edge router family and the 7950 Extensible Routing System (XRS-XC) IP core router. The highest […]
Applications and ResearchFinland’s 5G test networks are shifting their focus from technology development more towards large-scale service trials. The work continues in close cooperation with key vertical industry partners that, in the future, are planning to deploy their digital services on top of mobile network platforms. The new 5G network capabilities will be able to meet the […]
Technologies and ProductsA new submarine cable system, IOX Cable System, will enhance communications capabilities along the more than 8,850 km of its route between India and South Africa. When laid, the new fibre system will provide the first open cable in Mauritius, and connect for the first time the island of Rodrigues. Providing an ultimate design capacity […]