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Nokia releases shrunk-down private 4G/5G product for European SMEs

Nokia has released the compact version of its Digital Automation Cloud (DAC) private LTE/5G product in Europe, pitching to small- and medium-sized industrial enterprises (SMEs) and the logistics industry, specifically. The firm started selling the solution, called DAC Compact, in the US in October...

Xcel Energy taps Nokia for private LTE in Anterix band across eight US states

Nokia is to deploy a private LTE network in the Anterix-owned 900 MHz band in the US for energy provider Xcel Energy. The deployment will support the firm’s grid modernisation and renewable energy strategies, plus optimised delivery of electricity and natural gas. The deployment...

Edzcom and Nokia to deliver private 5G system for Europe’s deepest mine

Cellnex-owned Edzcom, one of the pioneer firms in the industrial private cellular market, has been recruited by the Finnish mine redevelopment project Callio to deploy an underground private 5G network in the Pyhäsalmi mine in the municipality of Pyhäjärv in the Northern Ostrobothnia region...

Nokia bags global SI deal with DXC for private 5G, smart-city private 5G gig in France

Nokia has announced a go-to-market deal for its private edge networking system with US-based system integrator DXC Technology. The pair said they will bundle the former’s compute and cellular components with the latter’s network operations centre (NOC) and management analytics in a DXC-branded managed...

OT-grade, IT-friendly, telco-made – Nokia eyes Industry 4.0 ‘sweet spot’

This article continues from another post, under the header: ‘They’re still figuring it out; we've moved beyond’ – Nokia expands Industry 4.0 view. Click here to read the previous instalment. The problem with Industry 4.0 in brownfield sites is that playground software is fighting for...

‘They’re still figuring it out; we’ve moved beyond’ – Nokia expands Industry 4.0 view

A couple of years back, Nokia talked up its private 5G cloud system like a Netflix-style content platform; almost three years later, it is looking to deliver on that concept by loading its MXIE edge-compute servers with Industry 4.0 applications. It is a telling...

Nokia gets nod from Indonesian telco IOH to build region-wide private network for Industry 4.0

Indonesian telecoms operator Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH) has appointed Finnish vendor Nokia to build a wide-area private wireless network in certain regions across the country. The brief from IOH, formalised in a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Nokia, is to build new cellular infrastructure...

Nokia extends private 5G lab tests to validate Industry 4.0 devices, use cases

Nokia has expanded its private 4G/5G test lab facility, called ‘Lab-as-a-Service’, to validate third-party industrial equipment and devices connecting on its Digital Automation Cloud (DAC) and Modular Private Wireless (MPW) private LTE (4G) and 5G network solutions. The service, free to customers, supports device...

Nokia intros glut of industrial 5G devices – ‘because, like we know, devices are a problem’

Nokia has released a glut of industrial 5G devices for deployment by enterprises, typically engaged in hard-nosed Industry 4.0 disciplines, in private 5G networks. The new products include an AI-laden video camera for various quick-time industrial analysis, wearable cameras for site surveillance and staff...

Nokia to supply private 5G to Etisalat UAE’s smart-city and Industry 4.0 clients

Nokia has signed a deal with telecoms operator E&, formerly Etisalat Group, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), to deploy 5G private networks for enterprises in Abu Dhabi. The pair will target “various industries, including ports, oil and gas, government and critical infrastructure”, they...

Antofagasta Minerals recruits Nokia for private LTE install at Chilean copper mine

Chile-based copper mining group Antofagasta Minerals has recruited Nokia to deploy a private LTE network at its Minera Centinela (Centinela mine) open pit copper mine in the Antofagasta region in northern Chile. It is the latest in a string of wins for the Finnish...

ZTE’s Cui Li: Truly vital breakthrough innovation is to make the best product on the market

ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the mobile internet, today has announced that its Chief Development Officer, Cui Li, has shared her insights on breakthrough innovation at the round table forum themed Breakthrough...

Nokia releases new private 5G devices for Industry 4.0 ‘teams and machines’

Nokia has released a new range of industrial 5G devices to go with its twin DAC and MPW private wireless products, and its newly bundled MX Industrial Edge (MXIE) edge portfolio. New ruggedized 5G SA devices include a smartphone, field routers, and a 5G...

Nokia mixes private 5G and edge compute in new MXIE master bundle for Industry 4.0

Nokia has bundled industrial-grade compute, storage, and networking into a single edge solution for mission-critical Industry 4.0. The new package comes with industrial IoT sensing and analytics applications, as well, plus a “single pane of glass” management platform to draw together newly-connected operational technology...

Verizon, Nokia ship full private 5G to Port of Southampton for Associated British Ports

Verizon has signed its first European private 5G contract, in a deal with Associated British Ports in the UK. The US firm has been appointed to deploy private 5G at the Port of Southampton. Nokia is providing the networking infrastructure, as part of the...

Integrator Smart Mobile Labs tees-up first German private 5G SA system – with Nokia

German system integrator Smart Mobile Labs is working with Nokia to deploy a private 5G network at the University of Kaiserslautern in Germany, according to the Finnish vendor. It called the new deployment “the first true” 5G standalone (SA) campus network in Germany –...

AT&T, Verizon tie-up with Nokia to offer private LTE and 5G for Industry 4.0

The timing is uncanny, and probably rigged, but Nokia has followed old rival Ericsson to announce a deal with AT&T for cloud-based private LTE, and trumped it – in terms of one-upmanship – with a global arrangement with Verizon for distribution of the 5G...