Tech explained

As the world witnesses a tidal wave of emerging technologies, seaports are deploying new connectivity and data-enabled systems in their drive towards digitalization.

When you hear the phrase ‘Winter is coming’- what immediately comes to mind? Is it George R. R. Martin's ‘Game of Thrones’ fantasy novels, or do you think about the dark days of winter and how much your energy bill is going to cost? The chances are that this year, it’s the latter.

As the internet brings billions of devices online, there has been a perceptible increase in the number of botnet DDoS attacks which pose a major threat to a world heavily reliant on digital communications.

Buried in the seabed and in trenches or laid in ducts under city streets and buildings, fiber optic cables not only enable the immense communication of people, devices, and computers but can also potentially act as senors.

When COVID-19 hit Indonesia, using funding from Nokia, UNICEF was able to leverage existing internet and mobile connectivity to provide vital healthcare services to the needy.

Over the past decade, rail modernization has progressed at a rapid pace but despite that, to remain competitive, complete digitalization of the whole infrastructure is imperative.

Renewable energy is in the cusp of transformational changes and digital connectivity will play a key role in helping the industry step up to replace fossil-fuel based power generation.

As the global population continues to rise steadily, mankind has been confronted with a challenge of epic proportions. How to feed a projected 10 billion people on the planet in 2050?

Hosting a major international football match is no small task but following the deployment of a 4G LTE and 5G network, Bloomfield stadium in Tel Aviv was successfully able to meet the connectivity expectations of thousands of fans.

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, passenger and cargo volumes are going to increase in the future and airports will have to step up and reinvigorate infrastructure and improve efficiency.

In their bid to gain efficiency and optimum production levels, industries have shown keenness to adopt the latest advancements in connectivity but what weighs on their minds is the aspect of security.

The world is on the cusp of unprecedented technological breakthroughs and among the new crop of intuitive machines are autonomous systems.

At a time when personal identification is fast emerging as a prerequisite for social and economic empowerment, the shift towards digital ID, could prove to be a gamechanger.

The fusion of Augmented reality (AR) along with the latest innovation in head-up display (HUD) is set to revolutionize the motoring experience by setting new standards in safety and comfort.

Telecom analyst Chris Lewis explains why the connected city is a game-changer for him.

At an age when high-speed internet is taken for granted, remote tribal nations in the United States have struggled with slow, unreliable connectivity for years.

AT&T and other leading communications companies have this week joined the group responsible for defining the specifications for 25 Gigabit Symmetric Passive Optical Network technology.

The 21st century has been witness to a number of disruptive technologies that not only had profound impact but paved the way for further innovation. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) figure high on that list.

As COVID-19 disrupts societies and irrevocably changes certain aspects of daily life, the education sector has been particularly hard-hit by the fall-out of the pandemic.

Nokia held its inaugural Real Talk 2020 event on Tuesday, 10 November. Hackers, futurists, technologists and other experts shared their views on what Communication Service Providers’ (CSPs) customers want and need to move through and beyond the pandemic.

Nokia's enhanced ESG strategy has been developed to accelerate our positive impact, create new value opportunities for our customers, and deliver sustainable value creation for shareholders.

As an industry we’re looking at a fundamental shift, from focusing on predicting and then meeting demand to building a network that can support human ingenuity in ways no one could have imagined.

There isn’t a single metaverse, rather multiple metaverses catering to consumers, enterprises and industry. When it comes to maturity, the industrial metaverse is leading the pack.

Nokia’s 2030 vision sees openness spearheading network evolution and helping to build applications and services of the future.

Circular economy promotes the concept of retaining the value of components, products and resources by extending their life cycle and optimizing waste management.

The world has been witnessing rapid technological advances in recent times. Nokia's Technology Vision 2030 looks at the trends and the direction of that change which in turn would guide our future innovation strategy.

5G can be a gamechanger for communication service providers that are eyeing the enterprise sector to generate new revenue streams. But to do so they need to be part of an ecosystem of partners.

Enter the metaverse, a highly interactive three-dimensional virtual domain where real-world conditions can be simulated to create unprecedented opportunities.

Understanding the need for evolution not revolution, 5G Core is designed to free network innovation and meet evolving customer needs in the most intuitive ways.

As the more advanced 5G Standalone networks become commonplace and crucial to supporting cutting-edge applications, 5G Carrier Aggregation will play a vital role in underpinning this significant performance boost.

The big story in U.S. broadband is the $97 billion in government funding to ensure no-one gets left behind. Learn more about the key programs.

Fiber optic networks are based on the use of glass strands that can transmit information with practically no limits on distance, or capacity.

IP routing is the application of routing methodologies and transporting the digital bits across an IP network.

Multiprotocol Label Switching is a networking technology that directs data from one node to the next using labels rather than a network address.

5G-Advanced is set to evolve 5G networks to their fullest capabilities and inject intelligence into the network like never before while placing energy-efficiency at its heart.

Conventional computing architectures premised on a centralized data center are getting overwhelmed by the deluge of real-time data. The answer lies in edge computing which processes data almost at the source.

While a mainstream concept in many industries, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is in its early days for communication service providers (CSPs) and enterprises but that is set to change.

With every generation of communications technology, the focus of the network changes. In the 6G era, the digital, physical and human world will seamlessly fuse to trigger extrasensory experiences. 

Hear from the Grantham Institute, the World Economic Forum and GSMA how 5G will play a major role in cutting emissions [video].

The world is at a key inflection point whereby intelligent technology is taking over the bulk of the tasks from humans. In such times, the need for networks to scale up is essential and automation can be an important facilitator in that journey.

The third industrial revolution (IR) transformed services businesses. The fourth IR will do the same for asset-heavy industries, with private wireless providing the connectivity to power digitalization and automation which increases business efficiency, safety and agility, and shrinks environmental footprint.