Cloud services, AI workloads and data center interconnection are driving rapid traffic growth across global networks, creating pressure for operators. Telxius is leveraging Nokia's ICE-X 800G ZR/ZR+ coherent pluggable technology to add capacity across its existing terrestrial infrastructure with IP-over-DWDM networking, while reducing the power and space required for network expansion. This increases network efficiency and simplifies operations to deliver resilient, high-performance connectivity for customers.

The deployment also utilizes Nokia network automation, giving Telxius greater visibility and control across its optical transport network. This provides full visibility, fault and performance monitoring, and coordinated service provisioning, supporting faster operations and more predictable service quality for Telxius customers.

This initiative builds on Nokia and Telxius' recent industry-record setting demonstration of ICE-X 800G ZR+ coherent pluggable optics over the BRUSA subsea cable system. The trial delivered 400Gb/s per wavelength across 5,600+ km, demonstrating the technology’s ability to support ultra-long-haul subsea infrastructure, as well as terrestrial networks.

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Nokia is the world's leading provider of network technology and enables a new era of artificial intelligence. We are developing the networks of the future that connect people, devices and intelligence. Our network solutions span fixed and mobile networks, as well as IP, optical, core, and data center networks. Our secure, AI-native network infrastructure enables the application and utilization of AI on a global scale.

About Telxius

Telxius is a global connectivity provider operating a network spanning more than 100,000 km of high-capacity subsea cable systems and terrestrial fiber across Europe and the Americas, connecting key data centers and digital hubs.

Through its integrated network of subsea infrastructure, terrestrial backhaul and landing gateways & edge data centers, Telxius enables hyperscalers, carriers and enterprises to interconnect their infrastructure and scale operations with secure, reliable and high-performance connectivity. Its Tier 1 IP network provides direct global reach, enabling efficient routing and full control over traffic paths.

Telxius offers a comprehensive portfolio of connectivity, infrastructure and interconnection services across Network & Transport, Infrastructure, Internet & Cloud, Interconnection, Security and CDN, supporting a wide range of use cases from enterprise and cloud connectivity to large-scale network interconnection and data transport.

At Telxius, we help our customers operate with predictable performance, dedicated capacity, and the confidence of a network built for increasingly distributed and complex environments.

Network tomography works like a health scan for optical networks. It gives operators a clearer view of what is happening across fiber links and wavelengths, without the need to install intrusive probes throughout the network. Powered by Nokia Bell Labs innovative algorithms, the solution imports and processes thousands of pieces of data sourced from coherent optical transmissions to gain near real-time insight into the condition of the overall network link by link.

The trial helped identify issues such as fiber degradation, amplifier problems, configuration errors and other network conditions that could affect performance. By spotting these issues early, operators can validate their underlying network faster and take action before the customers SLAs are impacted.

The trial also showed how network tomography can help operators make better use of their existing network capacity. By understanding the real condition of each optical link more accurately, operators can optimize performance, improve spectral efficiency and support more resilient services. This is an important step toward more automated optical networks, including AI-assisted operations and closed-loop automation.

The solution also utilizes equipment already installed in the network, avoiding the need for field force interventions and significantly reducing its environmental impact.

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Today, less than two percent of global semiconductor ATP takes place in the U.S. Nokia’s Allentown facility is one of only a few in the U.S. providing ATP of photonic chips into optical modules for use in AI and telecom infrastructure. Through investment in new manufacturing equipment and an expanded manufacturing footprint, Nokia is increasing the site’s production capacity by up to 10 times its current level, with new capacity expected to be commercially available by the end of the third quarter.

Nokia’s optical technologies provide advanced connectivity solutions for telecom networks to enable AI infrastructure and can reduce energy usage by as much as 75 percent. Nokia’s investment results in the domestic manufacturing of components used in AI infrastructure, creates new jobs, and significantly reduces energy usage in AI communications.

“The AI supercycle is fundamentally reshaping network and infrastructure requirements in the U.S. and globally. Our expansion in Allentown is a direct investment in that future—scaling domestic manufacturing of the optical networking technologies that power AI infrastructure. It also reflects the strong partnership between Nokia, the United States, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to support advanced manufacturing, create jobs, and strengthen U.S. technology leadership and global competitiveness,” said Justin Hotard, President and CEO of Nokia.

“Nokia is doubling down on the Lehigh Valley and ensuring that the future of chip production continues to run through this region because we’ve made smart investments to make Pennsylvania more competitive and proven that our Commonwealth is a great place to do business,” said Governor Shapiro. “As demand for semiconductors continues to grow across industries, we’ll continue to position Pennsylvania as a leader in innovation, with a supportive, thriving business climate that helps companies compete on a global scale. From advanced manufacturing to the research and development of new technology like advanced chip packaging, Pennsylvania has all the resources to be a world leader in chip production.”

“This is great news for Pennsylvania. Nokia is doubling its local workforce to more than 500 good-paying jobs in engineering, manufacturing, and R&D, all while expanding our ability to domestically produce the critical technologies that power AI infrastructure. This matters for both our economy and our national security,” said Senator Dave McCormick. “These technologies also help cut energy use in AI communications, showing that we can lead on innovation while also smartly managing our resources at the same time.”

“Nokia’s investment in Pennsylvania is directly advancing America’s AI leadership,” said Bill Frauenhofer, Executive Director of Semiconductor Investment and Innovation at the Department of Commerce. “Supported by CHIPS and Science Act funding, Nokia is deepening its commitment to innovation and the production of photonic chips in the United States. This project enables critical optical technology and strengthens America’s semiconductor supply chain.”

“Nokia’s latest investment is further proof that the Lehigh Valley is becoming a world leader in advanced manufacturing,” said U.S. Congressman Ryan Mackenzie. “With the help of our unparalleled, highly-skilled workforce, Nokia’s local expansion will help our region continue to drive innovation and build the tools behind next-generation technologies. Congratulations to Nokia and the hundreds of local workers who will benefit from this investment.”

The investment includes approximately $30 million from Nokia, which includes bipartisan support of approximately $4 million in assistance from the state of Pennsylvania and approximately $10 million in federal CHIPS investment tax credit. This expansion is part of Nokia's multi-year plan to invest $4 billion in R&D and manufacturing in the U.S. for AI-ready network connectivity. It is designed to bolster domestic supply chains for critical communications infrastructure, reinforce U.S. leadership in the technologies shaping the global AI economy and solidify Pennsylvania’s growing role as a hub for advanced manufacturing, telecommunications technology and AI infrastructure.

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More than a network upgrade, this collaboration reflects a shared ambition to bring customers closer to the digital experiences that matter most to them, from immersive entertainment and gaming to more reliable connectivity for work, learning, communication, and everyday digital activities. A stronger and more flexible network foundation will enable Indosat to serve customers better by anticipating their evolving digital needs while creating experiences that are more meaningful.

The deployment will enhance network capacity, performance, and coverage across Indonesia, while supporting Indosat’s long-term ambition to expand digital access more inclusively nationwide. The upgraded network will also enable advanced consumer and enterprise use cases across key sectors, including public services, industry, and digital services.

Unlocking AI-enabled services with NVIDIA

These joint activities will not only connect Indonesia but also build the digital infrastructure for the country’s next phase of growth. This agreement reflects a shared mission to turn connectivity into a platform for intelligence. AI-RAN provides the common architecture for combining connectivity and intelligence, and Nokia’s roadmap is built on that foundation with NVIDIA. With Nokia and NVIDIA already working with Indosat on AI-RAN, the companies are on track for the next milestone: moving from the first AI-RAN call completed at Mobile World Congress 2026 to field trials in Indonesia by the end of 2026. The collaboration will also support Nokia’s work on new AI algorithms designed to improve spectral efficiency on NVIDIA AI-RAN platforms, with those capabilities expected to be part of the upcoming field trials.

By combining its centralized AI factories and distributed AI-RAN infrastructure, Indosat is advancing its AI grid, creating a unified intelligence layer that distributes both AI and connectivity to millions of Indonesians while helping drive economic growth. Grounded in local AI innovation, the model is already accelerating practical applications in government services, healthcare, education, and agriculture, supported by the AI-RAN Innovation Center in Surabaya and the NVIDIA AI Technology Center ecosystem.

As part of the agreement, Nokia will deploy its latest Habrok and Pandion radio families, Levante basebands, Centralized RAN and advanced network management and automation platforms, enabling intelligent operations, improved energy efficiency and faster service innovation. Low‑band 5G will be introduced across the full network footprint, with mid‑band 5G covering approximately 80% of the network over the next three and a half years. AI-driven automation and energy-efficient technologies will improve operational efficiency and support a more sustainable and responsible approach to digital transformation, ensuring that technological advancement delivers real impact for businesses and the millions of Indonesians who rely on connectivity every day.

Nokia, Indosat and NVIDIA are demonstrating how 5G and AI can be delivered together to support digital inclusion across Indonesia’s diverse geography. This 5G expansion project provides the connectivity foundation for an AI Grid, while the AI-RAN roadmap creates a practical path to bring AI workloads closer to the network, to deliver new value for enterprises, public services and empower every Indonesian.

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Nokia today announced the launch of Nokia Deepfield Genome Shield, the industry’s first security automation system that facilitates proactive, always-on DDoS protection for telecommunications providers, hosting companies, internet exchange points, and cloud builders in the AI era. Genome Shield addresses the fundamental shift in DDoS threats driven by the emergence of residential proxy botnets, which now comprise approximately 200 million compromised devices worldwide.

The DDoS threat landscape has shifted over the past 12 months. Attacks now come from real subscriber devices, deliver multi‑terabit bursts that last seconds to minutes, and rapidly rotate IPs across thousands of nodes. Residential proxy botnets — estimated at 250–600 Tbps — are used to dynamically leverage large numbers of residential users, unaware that their connections are used to generate evasive attacks impacting many national networks. Traditional scrubber-based diversion and reactive mitigation can’t respond quickly enough to these sub‑minute attacks. Automated, AI-driven DDoS has industrialized the residential proxy supply chain used by botnets like Kimwolf, while AI-assisted code generation is accelerating the evolution of evasion techniques.

Nokia Deepfield Genome Shield introduces a new class of proactive, network-wide security automation that extends Deepfield Defender to address previously unaddressable use cases. The solution has been shaped through close engagement with customers and the wider security community as part of ongoing efforts to combat DDoS and botnet-driven threats. It shifts protection from reactive mitigation to proactive enforcement leveraging existing network infrastructure. Genome Shield aggregates continuously updated threat intelligence from multiple sources, including Nokia Deepfield Secure Genome® (spanning over five billion internet endpoints), GDTA telemetry, and Deepfield’s cyber range, where live malware and botnet command-and-control (C2s) generate real-time insights. All of this intelligence is further compiled in Deepfield Defender into automated DDoS policies and enforced as network-wide protection against modern cyberthreats, such as outbound DDoS.

Genome Shield extends Deepfield Defender's existing DDoS countermeasure portfolio with network-wide automated enforcement, organized across four pillars: Botnet C2 Disruption, which blocks command-and-control communications so attacks cannot be launched; DDoS Policers, which suppress amplification and volumetric traffic through proactive rate limiting; Custom Policies, enabling user-defined rules via open APIs for easy integration; and Observability, providing dashboards for compromised devices, botnet endpoints, and emerging security trends.

Genome Shield requires Nokia Deepfield Defender and is compatible with both router-based edge mitigation and with the Nokia 7750 Defender Mitigation System (DMS) for dedicated L4-L7 DDoS scrubbing. It supports on-premises, cloud-based (SaaS), and hybrid deployment models with flexible pay-as-you-grow licensing.

Initial capabilities of Genome Shield have already been introduced within Nokia Deepfield Defender and are in use by customers today. Additional features will be rolled out throughout 2026. 

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ABI Research’s evaluation ranked Nokia first overall with a total score of 85.9, including an innovation score of 85.3 and an implementation score of 86.5. The report highlighted Nokia’s ability to deliver a comprehensive and configurable network API platform — called Network as Code — that supports industry standards, integrates seamlessly with customers’ infrastructure, and enables monetization opportunities across industries.

No. 1 for innovation and implementation

The report emphasized Nokia’s strong focus on innovation, particularly in areas such as API standardization, customizability, and advanced functionalities like network slice management and fraud detection. From an implementation standpoint, Nokia’s high score reflects its extensive commercial reach, market alignment, and ability to enable providers to monetize their 5G Standalone (SA) networks.

More than 75 partners — including telecom providers, CPaaS platforms, systems integrators and vertical independent software vendors — are now part of Nokia’s Network as Code ecosystem. In addition, Nokia and Google Cloud recently announced a partnership to fuse agentic AI with network APIs, making networks consumable and programmable by enterprise agents.

Nokia’s multivendor approach, which aligns with 3GPP and CAMARA functionality, enables telecom providers to expose network capabilities in a secure, standardized way, consolidating network resources across legacy and modern infrastructure. Nokia’s full network API portfolio spans capabilities such as Quality of Service (QoS), device location, SIM swap detection, number verification, device status, and other specialized functions.

Solving industry-specific challenges

By providing standardized, secure access to APIs, Nokia is enabling developers to simplify complex network functions and create innovative applications that address industry-specific challenges. Early use cases span multiple sectors, including:

• Banking: Secure authentication and fraud detection for financial transactions.
• Healthcare: Real-time data sharing and remote monitoring.
• Automotive: Enhanced tele-driving capabilities and vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication.
• Entertainment: Optimized streaming and immersive experiences.

Recognition of leadership

ABI Research’s competitive assessment evaluated vendors based on their innovation and implementation capabilities, categorizing them as Leaders, Mainstream, or Followers. Nokia’s first-place ranking reflects its ability to combine cutting-edge technology with practical, scalable solutions that meet the needs of telecom providers and their customers.

The report also highlighted the broader market trends driving the adoption of network API platforms, including the maturity of 5G Standalone networks, global API standardization initiatives, and partnerships with hyperscalers and cloud marketplaces. Nokia’s leadership in these areas positions it as a trusted partner for telecoms looking to capitalize on the opportunities presented by 5G and network programmability.

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Through interoperability testing on the Kirq platform, the teams validated practical, repeatable network architectures showing that multiple next-generation encryption technologies can operate together within a unified system. This is a critical step toward deploying quantum-resilient infrastructure across the country. 

The testing on Kirq focused on solving the practical challenge of how to upgrade complex, multi-vendor networks without disrupting their operations. Rather than replacing entire systems, the teams validated repeatable blueprints showing how quantum-safe encryption, secure key generation and quantum key distribution can be integrated into existing network environments. This reduces the cost, operational risk and technical uncertainty associated with preparing national infrastructure for the post-quantum era while ensuring Canadian innovation is aligned with international standards.

The results further demonstrate the momentum of Canada’s quantum communications ecosystem and its ability to translate research into deployable capability. The collaborative testing brought together Numana, Nokia Canada and Canadian partners Crypto4A and evolutionQ. NowQuantum, a Canadian leading-edge startup, independently validated the network blueprint by deploying its Full-Stack, Quantum-Safe First Architecture (FS-QSFA). In a first for quantum-safe networking, NowQuantum demonstrated that not only data in transit, but the real-time execution of business-critical applications can be secured within a quantum-safe environment, a key requirement for operators of critical infrastructure preparing for post-quantum migration.

Conducted in late 2025, the Kirq testing integrated Canadian-developed cryptographic capabilities, including secure key generation and quantum key distribution orchestration, alongside quantum-safe optical networking technologies. The tests also support future integration with satellite-based quantum communications initiatives such as QEYSSat, enabling ultra-long-distance quantum-secure connectivity. 

This progress reflects a broader international effort to address the emerging quantum threat. As quantum computing advances globally, jurisdictions in Europe and elsewhere are moving to strengthen cryptographic sovereignty and prepare critical systems for long-term security. Kirq’s ability to demonstrate that trusted Canadian solutions work will help keep Canada on the leading edge of quantum development and strengthen collaboration with trusted partners from Canada and like-minded nations.

The collaboration between Numana, Nokia Canada and their partners will continue throughout 2026, expanding testing activities on the Kirq testbed and supporting organizations as they assess exposure, validate solutions and plan for the adoption of quantum-safe networking at scale. 

This effort builds on existing partnerships, including work to integrate space-to-terrestrial quantum encryption, and reinforces Canada’s role as a centre for practical quantum-safe testing focused on protecting long-term digital infrastructure. 

Background: quantum-safe communications 

·       The computers in use now are binary; they run on 1s and 0s. Quantum computers use quantum bits, or qubits, which can exist in superposition, enabling certain complex calculations to be performed exponentially faster than every computer today. To protect people’s money, identity, and the systems people count on, every government, business and organization in the world will need to implement quantum-safe networks and quantum-safe technology, called post-quantum cryptography. 

·       Some of the world’s best quantum innovation is happening in Canada in quantum materials, and quantum sensing, communications and computing via quantum corridors (Sherbrooke, Waterloo, Calgary, Victoria) and quantum companies. 

·       Canada’s National Quantum Strategy launched in 2023 with $360 million. It includes post-quantum cryptography. 

·       Canada has a federal roadmap to mitigate all non-classified Government of Canada IT systems to post-quantum cryptography by 2035. Government departments are required to file plans for quantum-safe cryptography by April 2026.  

·       In 2025, Canada launched the Canadian Quantum Champions Program, which includes another $334-million for selected quantum companies (up to $23 million each). 

About Nokia  

Nokia is a global leader in connectivity for the AI era. With expertise across fixed, mobile, and transport networks, we’re advancing connectivity to secure a brighter world.

About Kirq  

Kirq by Numana is Canada’s only quantum-safe tech testbed. A three-node system located in Quebec City, Sherbrooke and Montreal, Kirq simulates real-world conditions and networks, so new quantum-safe innovations can be tested. Some of the world’s biggest and most cutting-edge companies join forces with Numana at Kirq – including Toshiba, Nokia, Bell and Telus, alongside some of the brightest research minds. Kirq is non-profit, funded through public and partner contributions. Its goal is to accelerate the development of new solutions while helping organizations prepare for their adoption. The Kirq testbed allows for the testing and validation of new technologies in near-real conditions, providing a secure environment to reduce the costs and risks associated with integrating emerging technologies. kirq.numana.tech/en/ 

About Numana  

Founded in 2007, Numana is a non-profit organization that acts as a Macro-accelerator catalyst for technological ecosystems. Numana brings together private, public, and institutional stakeholders around common goals and coordinated actions to create value for the technology industry and all of Canada. Visit https://numana.tech/en/ to learn more

About Crypto4A 

Crypto4A is a Canadian cybersecurity company pioneering quantum-safe hardware security modules (HSMs) and cryptographic infrastructure solutions designed to safeguard the digital world today and tomorrow. Trusted by enterprises, governments, and infrastructure providers across the globe, we specialize in crypto-agility, scalability, portability, and post-quantum cryptography. To learn more, visit: About Us | Crypto4A

About evolutionQ 

evolutionQ is a cybersecurity company focused on developing scalable software solutions that provide cryptographic resilience for the post - quantum era. Led by a team of global experts in cybersecurity and quantum technologies, we’ve developed future-facing solutions deployed by governments, utilities, financial services firms, and telecommunications companies. Our current standards-based offerings include BasejumpSKI — an end-to-end symmetric key infrastructure (SKI) designed for long-term secure, quantum-safe keys; and BasejumpQDN — a quantum delivery network (QDN) for efficient and scalable quantum key delivery. For more information, visit www.evolutionQ.com

About NowQuantum 

NowQuantum is a thought-leading technology company specializing in integrating quantum-enabled solutions into established mission-critical infrastructure. Bridging the gap between emerging quantum technology innovations and real-world business challenges, the company empowers organizations to accelerate growth of new market opportunities, optimize operations, all while enhancing security from quantum threats. NowQuantum partners with technology - leading start-ups as well as Fortune 500 companies to ensure scalable applications in telecommunications, finance, health care, defence, and manufacturing. With a focus on practical implementation, the company helps clients future-proof business operations in a rapidly evolving tech landscape. Visit, www.nowquantum.co to learn more.

The software-as-a-service model, which transforms core networks and their operations into flexible, subscription-based services, reduces the upfront capital investment and operational complexity of traditional network deployments. It delivers catalog-based service creation, on-demand network capabilities, and rapid feature deployment, with predictable cost control through subscription pricing and pay-as-you-grow infrastructure.

Citymesh is using Nokia's Core SaaS for Business, running on AWS’s global cloud infrastructure, to serve enterprises across venues and events, airports, hospitals, offshore settlements, first responders, drone operators, and transportation sectors, and to power its new mobile offering for self-employed professionals and small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The solution allows Citymesh to design intuitive, customized service plans without having to conduct extensive telecommunications engineering or ongoing integration work.

Running on AWS global cloud infrastructure provides the scalability to handle unpredictable demand spikes across diverse enterprise environments without requiring upfront infrastructure investments. The platform's multi-region architecture ensures telecommunications-grade availability, while comprehensive security controls meet stringent industry requirements.

Nokia’s Core SaaS for Business delivers telecom-grade reliability with AWS security and performance across a comprehensive service catalog, including 4G and 5G Core, network slicing, IMS core, IoT services, automation, and security capabilities. Operators scale capacity on demand without managing hardware while exposing network capabilities through APIs (application programming interfaces).

Nokia's Core SaaS for Business is available to telecommunication providers worldwide. Attendees at MWC Barcelona March 2-5 can learn more about Nokia's core network technology by contacting their Nokia representative for private demonstrations at the Nokia booth (Hall 3, Stand 3B20).

The findings highlight a shared recognition across the connectivity ecosystem that next-generation network capabilities are essential and must modernize to support increasingly complex AI workloads. This presents an opportunity for collective action across industry and government to strengthen the digital foundation on which future AI innovation depends.

The research explains why this evolution matters, with AI redefining network requirements: workloads are becoming more uplink-heavy, data flows are more distributed, and expectations around latency, throughput, resilience, security, and energy efficiency are rising. These changes carry implications not only for telecommunication providers, AI and cloud providers, and mission-critical enterprises, but for national competitiveness and long-term digital leadership.

AI applications – from autonomous vehicles and smart manufacturing lines to surveillance drones and remote health care diagnostics – generate large volumes of data at the edge that must be transmitted upstream for processing, making them uplink-intensive. This stresses today’s networks, which were originally engineered for downlink-focused consumer use, such as browsing websites and video streaming.

Nokia is encouraging collaboration across the network ecosystem and support for more simplified and predictable regulatory environments that enable timely network investment. The research commissioned by Nokia includes perspectives from operators, enterprises, and partners about the capabilities they need from next-generation infrastructure to scale AI effectively. The research is broken down into separate geographic reports.

United States

While the U.S. continues to lead global AI deployment and mass-market adoption, 88% of U.S. respondents expressed concern that the expansion of network infrastructure may not keep pace with AI investment.

Respondents identified bi-directional data flow optimization, expanded fiber capacity, real-time training feedback, and low-latency edge infrastructure as essential priorities and building blocks for modernizing network architecture and powering the next phase of AI growth.

The U.S.-focused report, “Infrastructure First Is the New America First”, can be found here.

Europe

In Europe, 86% of enterprise respondents said current networks are not yet equipped to handle widespread AI adoption. Two-thirds of those surveyed said they already have AI in live use, and more than half have already experienced challenges such as downtime, latency, and throughput constraints associated with increasing data demands.

To address these challenges, respondents emphasized the need for consistent regulatory simplification and alignment across markets, timely spectrum availability, adjustments in competition policy to enable market consolidation, and industry-wide investment in energy-efficient, AI-ready networks.

These findings can be found in the “AI is too big for the European Internet” report here.

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Nokia’s Ottawa campus will be more than an R&D hub; it will serve as a launchpad for the future of connectivity innovation, accelerating advances in AI, quantum technologies, and sustainable digital transformation. Spanning nearly 750,000 square feet in the heart of the Kanata North Tech Park, home to over 1,900 R&D professionals in Ottawa and 2,500+ nationwide.

The new campus, located where Nokia’s world-class routers, 800 G optics, data center technology and quantum safe networking were designed, will continue to focus on Canadian goods, services and talent, boost economic growth, and set new standards in sustainable design, including LEED principles, renewable and resilient energy systems, and low-carbon materials.

Nokia’s powerful partnerships with NVIDIA and leading universities, and top-tier training programs ensure the Ottawa campus is a magnet for global talent and a catalyst for tech-driven prosperity. By integrating advanced optics, IP routing, quantum networking, and AI-RAN/6G, Nokia Canada is laying the groundwork for secure, sovereign and energy-efficient digital infrastructure.

Guided by sustainability and local impact, the new Ottawa innovation campus will strengthen Kanata North as Canada’s preeminent digital infrastructure cluster, grow the nation’s world-class talent pool and reinforce Canada’s reputation as a trusted leader in next-generation connectivity. Nokia also looks forward to further collaborating with all levels of government on the campus’s public transit connectivity.

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Website: Charting the path to 6G | Nokia.com

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Designed for the relatively predictable and conventional world of enterprise traffic, data center architectures are bending under the weight of AI workloads. Today, the data center and network edge—where AI traffic connects to the internet—are reaching the limits of their capacity, power and scalability. Despite technology innovation that delivers faster compute and connectivity, AI’s exponential growth increasingly requires the interconnection of multiple data centers and scaling resources across physical sites.

This is the focus of Nokia’s collaboration, using its deep expertise in optical and IP layer integration to scale distributed architectures; AI-native wireless to enhance consumer and enterprise experiences; efficient PON out-of-band management; advanced optical systems for inter-data-center connectivity, high-speed optical interconnects that improve compute-to-compute performance and energy efficiency; and AI-driven network operations.

Nokia’s data center networking solutions include high-performance switches and optics that ramp up connectivity inside the data centers, and IP and optical technologies that interconnect in, from, and between data centers. The comprehensive portfolio delivers unmatched performance, scalability and efficiency for the most demanding environments.

Resources and additional information

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Web Page: Optical networks

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Blog: Nokia Deepens Commitment to Open Innovation as AI Initiatives Scale in the Data Center and to the Edge, by Pallavi Mahajan

The company is introducing its new family of 7220 Interconnect Router (IXR) high-performance data center switches along with an enhanced suite of Artificial Intelligence for Operations (AIOps) tools for its Event-Driven Automation (EDA) management platform. Together, these innovations deliver the extreme performance and reliability required to support advanced AI training and inference workloads driven by increasing demand for agentic AI applications.

The emergence and widespread adoption of agentic AI-enabled applications is reshaping data center requirements, prompting a rapid evolution in networking solutions. AI is driving these advancements which present a dual opportunity for network innovation and operational transformation. These are exactly the forces behind the most recent developments in Nokia’s data center switching portfolio.

Scalable Performance and Flexibility for AI Data Centers

To address the massive demands for scalability and high performance in AI data centers, Nokia’s 7220 IXR-H6 switches deliver exceptional throughput, reaching up to 102.4 Tb/s with interface speeds at 800 GE (Gigabit Ethernet) and 1.6 TE, doubling throughput and interface speeds within the same footprint. The switches are compliant with Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC) specifications, bringing advanced features designed to optimize and manage packet flows, avoid congestion, and drive network efficiency across large-scale AI factory environments of up to one million XPUs and beyond.

The Nokia 7220 IXR-H6 family offers unparalleled flexibility for a diverse range of deployment scenarios. Available in both liquid-cooled and air-cooled variants, the switches can be seamlessly integrated and are compliant with various data center rack configurations.

Nokia is the only vendor offering hardware that supports both an embedded Network Operating System (NOS) and SONiC. The new switches can be configured with Nokia’s SR Linux network operating system (NOS) or open-source Community SONiC, providing data center operators with greater choice in software solutions. Backed by Nokia’s expert development and support organization, operators can proceed with confidence, knowing they have reliable options tailored to their specific infrastructure needs.

AI-enabled Network Operations

With the pressing need to deliver always-on services, cloud service providers and enterprises alike are prioritizing automation, AIOps and modernization strategies to reduce downtime and ensure resilient performance throughout the data center network operations lifecycle. To address these requirements in today’s environment of increasing operational scale and complexity, Nokia is introducing innovative agentic AI-enabled capabilities into its Event-Driven Automation (EDA) platform. EDA AIOps combines the simplicity of natural language interactions with the reasoning power of agentic AI to unlock fast and accurate issue identification, root cause analysis, and remediation across the data center networking environment. When combined with EDA’s extensive real-time telemetry, integrated digital twin, dry-run, and instant roll-back capabilities, network operators can move fast to address issues with confidence, realizing a 96% reduction in data center network downtime, according to Bell Labs Consulting and Futurum’s recent report, Data center fabric reliability study.

Nokia 7220 IXR-H6 switches will be available in 1Q26, with Nokia EDA AIOps features available for demonstration today and deployment by year-end 2025.

Resources and additional information

Webpage: Nokia Data center networks

Webpage: Nokia 7220 Interconnect Router for Data Center Fabrics

Webpage: Nokia Event-Driven Automation

Video: What just happened? Just Ask EDA - YouTube

Video: Introducing our new family of 7220 IXR-H6 switches - YouTube

Report: EY Technology Pulse Poll

Report: The Data Center Networking Imperative: Key Trends Driving the Next Era of Data Centers  (Futurum)

Report: Data center fabric reliability study (Bell Labs Consulting and Futurum)

The research agreement, signed on November 5, 2025, will help both organizations shape the direction of 6G research and bring practical innovations closer to real-world deployment. The agreement expands on Nokia and KDDI’s long history of collaboration, leveraging the companies’ respective strengths: KDDI Research’s cutting-edge advanced communications R&D work and Nokia Bell Labs’ leadership in technology and telecommunications innovation.

Under this new agreement, the two companies are conducting research in two key areas of 6G:

• mMIMO energy efficiency: New techniques for reducing base-station energy consumption while enhancing communication, specifically targeted at proposed 6G spectrum.
• Distributed programmable core network services for 6G: New mobile core technologies that will ensure continuous communication during infrastructure failures and natural disasters.

KDDI Research and Nokia Bell Labs will demonstrate their initial work in mMIMO energy efficiency at the Brooklyn 6G Summit Nov 5 – 7.

Under this agreement, Nokia will deploy its energy-efficient AirScale Radio Access Network (RAN) solutions, featuring the latest Habrok Massive MIMO radios and AirScale baseband equipment. These solutions, powered by its ReefShark System-on-Chip technology, will deliver ultra-high performance, coverage, and capacity while maintaining extreme energy efficiency. The implementation includes Nokia's AI-powered MantaRay solution for enhanced network management and Self-Organizing Network capabilities.

Nokia and SoftBank are founding members of the AI-RAN Alliance and are also collaborating on research and development initiatives in AI-RAN and 6G technologies. These initiatives include joint research, field trials, and the development of a virtualized RAN platform. Both companies are conducting tests in the 7 GHz frequency band for 6G in Tokyo using Massive MIMO technology.

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Product Page: MantaRay SON

The machine learning capabilities in the receiver greatly boost uplink distance, enhancing coverage for future 6G networks. This will help operators roll out 6G over their existing 5G footprints, reducing deployment costs and accelerating time to market.

Nokia Bell Labs developed the receiver and validated it using 6G test equipment and methodologies from Rohde & Schwarz. The two companies will unveil a proof-of-concept receiver at the Brooklyn 6G Summit on November 6, 2025.

Nokia Bell Labs and Rohde & Schwarz have tested this new AI receiver under real world conditions, achieving uplink distance improvements over today’s receiver technologies ranging from 10% to 25%. The testbed comprises an R&S SMW200A vector signal generator, used for uplink signal generation and channel emulation. On the receive side, the newly launched FSWX signal and spectrum analyzer from Rohde & Schwarz is employed to perform the AI inference for Nokia’s AI receiver. In addition to enhancing coverage, the AI technology also demonstrates improved throughput and power efficiency, multiplying the benefits it will provide in the 6G era.

The three partners combined video codec research expertise for the first time, aiming to strengthen Europe's role in next generation standardization. Partnership researchers jointly demonstrated a new video codec with considerably higher compression efficiency than the current standards (H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, and H.266/VVC) without significantly increasing complexity, while also improving energy efficiency and scalability.

The documented research provides early evidence of technology capable of meeting the requirements for the next video coding standardization phase – an important milestone that helps initiate the process towards future decision-making.

The partners’ joint submission to the oversight bodies; the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group and the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG), was positively evaluated and is expected to help catalyze progress towards evaluation and decision-making by the standardization committee.

In line with forecast 6G deployment, the next video codec standard is expected to be operational from 2029-2030 and will define the digital media landscape for the following decade. Until then, current standards, such as VVC, play a vital role in delivering advanced video experiences, driving market demand for high-efficiency streaming, immersive media formats, and scalable solutions across diverse devices and networks.

The new standard will be essential to a wide range of video-based applications, including mobile communication and streaming, as well as immersive and low-latency experiences. Anticipated use cases include the coding of professional-, user-, and AI-generated content; coding of gaming and 3D content; coding of content for machine consumption; and automotive and industrial use.

The solution is available on Nokia’s existing state-of-the-art fiber line card, based on the Quillion chipset. The card is designed to deliver GPON, XGS, 25G, 50G PON and future optical modules, like 50G symmetrical and additional combinations of multi-PON and triple-PON options.  The Lightspan line card uses the smallest form factor optics for all PON technologies to maximize port density and allow full backward compatibility with existing optics for smooth, cost-efficient network upgrades.

Nokia’s 50G/25G PON, helps operators protect user and network sensitive data with quantum-safe encryption and secure key exchange that addresses the growing threat of harvesting data today and decrypting them when Quantum computers are available. Enterprises can also rely on fully redundant PON designs that ensure always-on connectivity, guaranteeing reliable service even under fault conditions, including fiber cuts. Additional advanced AI features optimize network performance while six-nines availability ensures seamless connectivity for mission-critical operations. 

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Operators deploying FTTH networks face limited visibility into the passive outside plant, resulting in inventory errors, costly repeat truck rolls, cost overruns and service delays. With better visibility to the outside plant, operators can fix problems faster, expand networks efficiently, and deliver more reliable broadband to their communities.

The Altiplano digital twin capabilities are compatible with diverse inventory and geospatial software solutions, work effectively in greenfield or brownfield deployments, and come pre-integrated with Nokia Broadband Easy digital platform for automated fiber rollout and operations.

Nokia Altiplano gives operators a unified, real-time view of their FTTH networks, using automation tools to streamline processes and continuously validate inventory, topology, and resource data. Operators can also access Nokia’s new Fiber Health Analyzer and Subscriber Line Identifier application from its growing Altiplano Marketplace. The new AI-powered Fiber Health Analyzer application allows operators to monitor the health of fiber links, audit the imported topology, isolate fiber faults, proactively detect issues, perform root cause analysis and improve service quality.  With the new Subscriber Line Identify application, operators can verify splitter connectivity with minimal disruption or update inventory in real time to accurately reflect network realities. 

Resources and additional information:

Product Page: Altiplano Access Controller

Product Page: Altiplano Application Marketplace

Product Page: Broadband Easy

Nokia is also joining other investors in Nscale’s Series B investment round, designed to advance the building of scalable, secure, and globally competitive AI infrastructure amid soaring demand for AI-ready data centers. Headquartered in the UK and operating globally, Nscale is an AI-native infrastructure platform, providing vertically integrated compute, networking, storage, managed software, and AI services delivered in Nscale-owned and co-located data centers.

This partnership sees Nokia become an Nscale preferred partner for networking technologies from across its Network Infrastructure portfolio, for the build-out of AI clusters at scale. Nokia offers a comprehensive portfolio - data center switching, IP routing, and optical networking – for delivering secure, high-performance connectivity within and across data centers and between end-users and applications. This enables customers to scale cloud capacity more efficiently and cost-effectively, while making processes inside the data center faster and more energy efficient.

The partnership agreement will also see Nokia and Nscale jointly drive innovation in the networking stack used in AI clusters and partner globally on joint deployment initiatives.

Resources and additional information

Web Page: Nscale

Web Page: Data center networks 

Web Page: Networking for AI workloads 

Web Page: Infinera is now part of Nokia 

In the coming decade, FRMCS will upgrade the current 2G Global System for Mobile Communications – Railway (GSM-R) and become the next-generation global standard designed for all railways. Its 5G-based successor, with built-in security and high reliability, enables enhanced automation, new digital applications, improved passenger services and secure cross-border communication.

Nokia is a global leader in railway communications with decades of experience in GSM-R deployments across more than 20 countries. The company has been at the forefront of FRMCS development, collaborating with rail operators, governments, industry and standardization bodies to help shape the standard and enable its global deployment.

Nokia’s new 5G radio is built for mission-critical communications and supports strategic coexistence, enabling railways to migrate to 5G alongside legacy systems like GSM-R with no disruption. In addition, its fully optimized, cloud-native 5G SA core supports the full suite of FRMCS functionalities for the transport stratum. Modular, flexible and scalable, the solution enables both regional and nationwide deployments. It will also be tested under the EU-funded FP2-MORANE-2 project, which builds on earlier FRMCS initiatives to advance the digitalization of rail operations across Europe.

The shift to a 5G solution introduces powerful capabilities that align perfectly with the operational needs of modern railways, particularly in border crossing scenarios. Here are some of the main benefits for rail operators and passengers:

• Automated train operations: Enabling real-time control and monitoring of trains to improve safety and efficiency and decreasing energy consumption and emissions.
• Passenger information systems: Providing real-time updates and information to passengers for a better travel experience.
• Mission-critical voice communication: Integrating voice, video and data services in a single, standardized platform to enhance operations and infrastructure management.
• Smart rail maintenance: Utilizing predictive maintenance and real-time monitoring to reduce downtime and maintenance costs.

Nokia is committed to driving the digital transformation of the railway sector through advanced, future-ready technologies. The new solution includes a commercial 5G radio for the 1900 MHz band from its industry-leading AirScale portfolio, paired with its railway-optimized Core Enterprise Solution. It is complemented by the company’s extensive portfolio of mission-critical IP, optical and data center networking products. Nokia's solutions are also compliant with the highest standards and feature a best-in-class cybersecurity framework.

Web Page: FRMCS

Product Page: AirScale Radio Access

Product Page: Core Enterprise Solution for Railways

Product Page: Rail OT cloud

Product Page: Mission-critical railway backbone network

Google Cloud Marketplace offers a universal catalog of solutions from Google Cloud and its partner ecosystem for customers to discover and use.

Developers can use the Nokia APIs exposed via Google Cloud Marketplace to tap into mobile networks around the globe to create and deliver new applications, in conjunction with the capabilities provided by Nokia’s Network as Code platform with developer portal, which gives developers standardized access to network functions without having to navigate any of the underlying network technologies. Additional Nokia APIs are expected to be available on Google Cloud Marketplace in the future.

Nokia APIs are patterned after GSMA Open Gateway and CAMARA open standards, allowing developers to run applications that work globally, enabled by Nokia’s growing CSP partnership network.

Through automation, the Quality of Service on demand API can effectively ask a network for guaranteed and reliable connectivity for a specified amount of time, such as for a live stream at a large event with thousands of people.

Nokia’s Number Verification API can verify whether a phone number belongs to the person using it, allowing industries such as financial services and retail to mitigate fraud and enhance user verification. 

Similarly, Device Location Verification can authenticate a commercial transaction request to a device owner, based on the owner’s phone location and the location from which the request is coming.

Enscryb is an innovative digital toolbox that enables real-time distributed energy flexibility orchestration in an era of increasing market volatility, demand and renewable production by simulating electricity systems of any size and complexity. The Enscryb toolset also provides energy flexibility forecasting for battery energy storage systems and solar hybrid assets. By analyzing data from both markets and clients' own infrastructures, Enscryb enables more accurate and bankable financial modeling for renewable energy projects.

Based on technology from Nokia Bell Labs, Enscryb is the latest Nokia venture to engage external partners and customers. These collaborations stem from Nokia’s internal venture incubator dedicated to innovation and new commercialization paths for Nokia Bell Labs technology.

By contributing to reducing energy expenses, increasing grid resiliency and transitioning toward Net Zero, Enscryb also emphasizes Nokia’s commitment to sustainable businesses.

NODES facilitates the trading of flexibility resources and Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) between System Operators and Flexibility Service Providers, aggregators and large Industrial and Commercial assets. This activity supports the sustainability sector and contributes to the development of emerging energy flexibility and congestion markets.

Nanuq helps its industrial customers transition to electrified fleets. They plan investment and operation of fleets with local generation resources and charge points to ensure maximum efficiency by lowering energy operation expenses.

Smartecon is a pan-Baltic EPC company specializing in utility-scale renewable energy projects. It helps developers and asset owners bring solar, battery, and hybrid power plants from concept to grid connection, with a strong focus on grid compliance, technical design, and hands-on project execution.

Utilities worldwide are rolling out smart grid technologies to tackle multiple urgent challenges at once. These systems are designed to make the grid more resilient in the face of climate disruptions and growing cyber threats. At the same time, they support the integration of distributed energy resource, like rooftop solar and battery storage; crucial for hitting net-zero emissions targets. Smart grids also improve operational efficiency and real-time monitoring through IEC 61850-enabled automation. Beyond technical gains, they help utilities stay compliant with fast-changing regulations and government mandates, ensuring the grid is ready for the future.

Nokia’s expansion delivers end-to-end, secure, and adaptable IP routing solutions that scale from the enterprise edge to the data center core, helping utilities evolve their communications infrastructure for smart grid technologies. Nokia’s 7705 SAR and 7250 IXR platforms provide advanced capabilities to deliver application-aware communications for TDM and IP/Ethernet services. Built to meet the needs of utilities, the Nokia platforms allow support for legacy protective relays, SCADA RTUs and IEC 61850 IEDs with precise frequency and time synchronization distribution across the grid. Utilities can also counter escalating cybersecurity threats, including those enabled by quantum computing, by deploying Nokia’s advanced quantum-safe MACsec encryption. And because the pervasive use of substation CCTV cameras and sensors continue to drive up bandwidth use, the new Nokia platforms ensure their networks can scale to 100 GE and 400 GE to support these critical applications and future high-capacity services.

Read the brochure to learn more about how upgrading aging power grids is urgent for real‑time visibility, automation and resilience, to meet rising demand and ensure reliable, secure service.

Resources and additional information

Brochure: Nokia IP routing solutions for mission-critical utility networks

Video: Expanding the substation portfolio for the evolving grid

Product page: Nokia 7705 Service Aggregation Router

Product page: Nokia 7250 Interconnect Router

Web Page: Power utilities

Nokia’s cloud-native 5G Core portfolio, including its Packet Core solution, allows O2 Czech Republic to provide new network services in multi-cloud environments, while doing so quickly, securely, and at scale.

The deployment reflects the ongoing market momentum of Nokia’s Core business. At the end of Q1 2025, Nokia again led the world in 5G SA Core deployments with 52 operators in live 5G Standalone service and the most 5G Standalone Core CSP customers, with 125 in total.  

The Nokia Core Network portfolio is fully cloud-native across the board, which makes it much easier for operators to run their full 4G/5G Core in cloud-native network functions.

Astranu leverages proprietary integrated Optical Coherence Tomography (iOCT) technology developed by Nokia Bell Labs and aims to dramatically transform ear diagnostic care through advanced, non-invasive, high-resolution 3D imaging. The iOCT technology brings high performance imaging into the world’s most cost-effective OCT system, providing instant, high-accuracy imaging of middle-ear conditions and hearing response. This has the potential to address critical healthcare gaps by helping to reduce incidences of misdiagnosis, unnecessary referrals, and significantly reducing the reliance on costly and invasive exploratory surgery and imaging techniques such as CT and MRI scans.

Through the spin out, experienced healthcare technology executive Trevor Hawkins, PhD, joins Astranu as CEO, bringing decades of leadership in successfully scaling healthcare and diagnostic startups. iOCT co-inventors Michael Eggleston, PhD, and Bibek Samanta, PhD, who incubated and developed the technology to commercial readiness at Nokia Bell Labs, will help support Astranu in this next phase.

Nokia Bell Labs, Nokia’s award-winning industrial research arm, will continue to support Astranu with vital laboratory resources and R&D expertise, reaffirming their commitment to fostering innovation with real world-impact.

Celesta Capital’s involvement brings strategic direction, commercialization support, and substantial industry networks vital for rapid market adoption of Astranu’s technology.

Achin Bhowmik, PhD, Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Engineering for hearing technology company Starkey, will join the Company’s Board of Directors.

Optical LAN offers a significant leap forward, requiring up to 70% less cabling and 40% less power compared to traditional copper-based LAN networks. With a lifespan of more than 50 years, Optical LAN delivers up to 50% reduction in Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

Nokia’s Aurelis Optical LAN is built for simplicity, reliability and long-term performance. Supporting current speeds of 1Gb/s, 10Gb/s and 25Gb/s with a clear upgrade path to 50Gb/s and 100Gb/s, Aurelis Optical LAN ensures enterprises are ready for what’s next. Open APIs allow seamless integration with existing enterprise environments while advanced automation features help to simplify and streamline operations. Six-nines availability and robust security ensure it can deliver fast and seamless LAN connectivity, essential for Wi-Fi 7 and other high-bandwidth applications.  

With over 700 installations across hotels, university campuses, airports, hospitals and more, Nokia’s Optical LAN technology is already helping organizations around the globe stay ahead in an evolving digital world.

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Enterprises operating in asset-intensive industries like ports, mining and manufacturing, face significant challenges in harnessing value from real-time operational technology (OT) data to achieve their digitalization goals. These new applications employ various enabling technologies such as machine and process control, video analytics and AI, environmental sensing, industrial connectivity and network security to provide unique industrial use cases. The Nokia MXIE platform provides a robust and secure edge computing foundation that allows enterprises to seamlessly deploy these new applications.

The newly onboarded applications provide enterprises with the tools to drive innovation across multiple areas:

Industrial DataOps: Prosys OPC Forge OPC UA provides a single point of access for collecting data from various industrial assets. Especially useful in brownfield deployments, this app facilitates structured data organization using OPC UA information modelling, ensuring interoperability across different manufacturers and system generations.

Machine Automation: Bosch Rexroth’s ctrlX OS is an operating system for industrial automation. Running on MXIE, ctrlX OS packaged with numerous industrial applications provides seamless integration of machines, data visualization, process automation, and secure communication across industrial use cases. In combination with the control platform ctrlX CORE of Bosch Rexroth, real-time control of machines is enabled. 

AI-Powered Quality Inspection: SwitchON DeepInspect leverages high-precision AI models to reduce defects, lower inspection costs, and optimize manufacturing processes.

Advanced Video Analytics for Safety & Automation: Ipsotek VISuite enhances situational awareness with precise object tracking and AI-powered automation to improve worker safety and production monitoring.

Workplace Safety & Environmental Monitoring: SmartCone’s HeatGuardian solution provides real-time worker heat stress monitoring, ensuring workplace safety in different and challenging environmental conditions.

OT, IoT, and CPS Security: Purpose-built for complex industrial, commercial, and critical infrastructure environments, the Nozomi Networks Platform (including Guardian sensors) leverages AI to deliver real-time asset visibility, threat detection, and vulnerability management to minimize cyber risk and maximize operational resilience.

With these applications, enterprises can harness real-time insights to optimize operations, enhance worker safety, and ensure compliance with sustainability and security standards.

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Nokia DAC Marketplace makes it easy for customers and partners to find and purchase Industry 4.0 solutions that integrate into the Nokia Edge Compute and AI platform for industries. The marketplace automatically adjusts offerings based on the delivery country, ensuring compliance with local legislation. It also provides partners with a simplified process for integrating and offering complementary products as part of Nokia deals, strengthening the industrial ecosystem. Additionally, the DAC Marketplace provides opportunities for merchants to increase visibility with Nokia’s extensive customer and partner base through a quick and easy ordering process.

Nokia will exhibit at Hannover Messe 2025 in Hall 14, Stand H80, where it will showcase the Nokia DAC Marketplace.

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The partnership will benefit from Numana’s Kirq Quantum Communication Testbed, a world-class facility that provides a real-world environment for testing and validating new quantum-resistant and quantum communication technologies. Nokia will leverage its expertise in post-quantum networking, incorporating advanced IP routers, high-capacity optical transport nodes, and state-of-the-art quantum-safe cryptographic technologies, all backed by its extensive practical experience and proven success in real-world deployments.

Additionally, Nokia intends to utilize this environment to foster collaborative-based innovations, enabling the development of solutions within the broader quantum technology ecosystem. Honeywell Aerospace Technologies will introduce quantum-secure encryption keys from space to terrestrial data centers, applications, and networks.

Numerous studies highlight the significant benefits for the private sector and the profound impact quantum communication is poised to have on Quebec and Canada as a whole.

The partnership also aligns with the commitments by Quebec and Canada to quantum innovation and cybersecurity leadership. The Numana facility in Quebec will serve as a hub where enterprises, research institutions, and government agencies can explore, evaluate, and validate secure networking technologies in a real-world environment.

The arrival of multinational players like Nokia and Honeywell Aerospace Technologies brings immense value to this innovative network by introducing innovative technologies and unparalleled expertise. This collaborative effort will advance the development and deployment of quantum-secure solutions and foster a robust global network that supports continuous innovation, addresses cybersecurity needs, and ushers in the era of next-generation communications.

The collaboration will enhance the overall quantum technology landscape by concentrating on several key areas, including:

• Education and training: While QSN solutions are available today, Numana’s technology ecosystem will provide awareness, training, and educational resources to help organizations understand and implement their quantum-secure strategies.
• Ecosystem development: Foster collaboration among industry stakeholders, including researchers, developers, and businesses throughout the global quantum technology sector.
• Research and development: Jointly develop, assess, and evolve the technologies and science toward advanced secure communication.

The challenge for many operators will be rolling out fiber to the next billion homes in rural or underserved areas. Those that can digitalize the fiber rollout process are more likely to see a better return, and according to McKinsey can achieve 10 to 25 percent savings through efficiencies in the process, automation and AI technologies.

Nokia’s Broadband Easy allows operators to digitalize the fiber deployment process, providing a modular platform that easily integrates into the existing IT stack. Operators can use Broadband Easy to centrally manage the fiber deployment process, control the subcontractors and mitigate risks. Additional automation features help to optimize design and field activities by real time data exchange, certifying the fiber plant, and generating accurate inventory data. Broadband Easy also uses AI models to increase the quality of field installations, using AI to verify and accept the installation of components, to control ports allocated to subscribers, and provide on-site training and guidance to field technicians

Nokia design and rollout management services can help those operators that want to further offload their fiber roll out process. Broadband Easy supports the operators preferred outside plant vendors or subcontractors and comes pre-integrated with Nokia Altiplano Access Controller and Nokia Design Center.

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Demand for multi-gigabit services is growing, moving beyond the enterprise into the home where end-users seek high-speed connectivity for cloud applications, gaming, remote work, and Wi-Fi 7. With 25G PON, operators can turn multi-Gig and 10G+ into mass-market services and know they can reliably deliver advertised speeds to all subscribers, all the time. This proven technology is used by 17 operators, including Google Fiber, Frontier, and Hong Kong Broadband. It provides an easy, cost-effective way to address residential demand for faster broadband speeds.

The two new residential 25G PON fiber modems complement Nokia’s growing 25G PON portfolio, which includes the Lightspan FX, DF and MF fiber access platforms (OLTs), a 25G PON ONT designed for enterprise applications, and the industry’s first 25G PON sealed fiber access node for cable operators.

• As part of Intuitive Machines IM-2 mission, Nokia Bell Labs’ Lunar Surface Communications System landed on the Moon aboard the Athena lander, powered up and transmitted operational data back to Earth
• These milestones are key steps toward proving the viability of cellular technologies for critical communications on future lunar missions

10 March 2025
Murray Hill, New Jersey – Nokia today announced it successfully delivered the first cellular network to the Moon as part of the Intuitive Machines IM-2 mission to the lunar south pole region. Nokia successfully validated key aspects of the network’s operation, including the transmission of operational data to Intuitive Machines’ ground station and Nokia’s mission control center on Earth and the activation of multiple communication solution components. The IM-2 mission is part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative and Nokia’s technology demonstration was funded in part by NASA’s Tipping Point initiative.

Nokia was unable to place the first cellular call on the Moon because of significant power limitations due to the orientation of the Athena lander’s solar panels after landing. However, Nokia Bell Labs’ Lunar Surface Communications System (LSCS) was engineered for optimized power consumption, and in a 25-minute window in which it was able to receive power, the LSCS successfully completed multiple tests. These achievements serve as key steps toward proving cellular technologies meet the mission-critical communications needs of lunar exploration and beyond.

The LSCS’s “network in a box” (NIB) installed on Athena successfully powered on and received telecommands from and issued responses to the Nokia mission control center in Sunnyvale, California. Nokia’s operations and management software on Athena also started up and connected to Intuitive Machines’ ground station. NIB telemetry data confirmed a successful operational “on-air” state, indicating that all its subcomponents — base station, radio and network core — were all functioning properly. The NIB ran without any service interruption for the entire 25-minute power window.

Right after landing, telemetry data showed that the LSCS device module on board Intuitive Machines’ Micro Nova Hopper was drawing power consistent with the device module being operational and functioning properly; this is an indication that it was ready to receive a connection. Unfortunately, when the NIB was activated several hours later, the Hopper module’s temperature had dropped well below operational range due to power constraints and the extreme conditions in Athena’s crater landing site, and a connection between the device module and the NIB could no longer be established.

“In space exploration there are big successes and small successes,” said Thierry E. Klein, President of Bell Labs Solutions Research at Nokia. “We delivered and deployed the first cellular network on the Moon and we are incredibly proud of the results that we have achieved despite the very challenging circumstances. If our device modules had been functional when our network in a box was powered up, all indications tell us that we would have been able to complete the first-ever cellular call on the Moon. The successes we were able to achieve are still significant. We were able to take commercial off-the-shelf components that connect billions of people on Earth and harden them to operate on the Moon. These initial milestones demonstrate that cellular technologies have a key role to play in space exploration, and we look forward to future missions with NASA, Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost and other partners in the space industry.”

Nokia and Nokia Bell Labs have always maintained a strong commitment to science, resulting in some of the greatest innovations and discoveries known to humankind. By working with NASA and partnering with innovative companies like Intuitive Machines and Lunar Outpost, Nokia is shaping the way we communicate beyond the confines of Earth. This commitment will continue well beyond IM-2 as Nokia explores the possibilities for communications on the Moon and Mars and helps foster the burgeoning space economy.

Multimedia, technical information and related news

Press Release: NASA Receives Some Data Before Intuitive Machines Ends Lunar Mission - NASA 
Web Page: Networking the Moon and beyond
Video: How Nokia Bell Labs re-conceptualized the cellular network for the Moon
Video: The importance of connectivity in the future space economy

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With truly open architectures that seamlessly integrate into any ecosystem, our high-performance networks create new opportunities for monetization and scale. Service providers, enterprises and partners worldwide trust Nokia to deliver secure, reliable and sustainable networks today – and work with us to create the digital services and applications of the future.

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• Immersive Voice and Audio Services (IVAS): The most significant advancement in voice-call audio technology in decades, will be jointly presented by Nokia, Vodafone and RingCentral highlighting the latest 5G Advanced audio capabilities.
• The joint demonstration underscores the partners' intention to bring future IVAS-enabled calling experiences to a broad customer base.

25 February 2025
Espoo, Finland – Nokia today announced it is working with Vodafone and RingCentral to showcase Immersive Voice and Audio Services (IVAS) – the future of voice communication, providing users with a natural, three-dimensional sound experience even when calling from a remote location. The joint demonstration on the Vodafone booth at MWC 2025 highlights the companies' commitment to deliver advanced IVAS-enabled business, industrial and consumer use cases and enhance voice communication.

IVAS will transform traditional voice services by adding an immersive audio experience that allows people to hear sound spatially in real-time, making conversations and interaction natural, and lifelike. There are significant opportunities for enhanced audio services, from elevating business communications if dialing into a meeting remotely to transforming industrial operations, education, sports and events, as well as mobile voice calls.

“Showcasing IVAS technology, the future of voice communication, with Vodafone and RingCentral at MWC this year enables us to bring new use cases to life on today’s devices. It highlights our commitment to growing the ecosystem for Immersive Voice and Audio Services while delivering impactful, immersive audio experiences across communications platforms,” said Jyri Huopaniemi, Head of Audio Research, Nokia Technologies.

“Videoconferencing with multiple people dialing in both remotely or from within the office can be an alienating and unproductive experience. That’s why Vodafone is delighted to be at the forefront of new immersive voice technology with Nokia and RingCentral. The virtual surround sound experience possible with immersive voice can enhance business meetings, improve industrial operations in noisy locations like warehouses and transport hubs, and even improve everyday voice calls,” added Nadia Benabdallah, Network Strategy and Engineering Director, Vodafone.

“Voice is more than just sound —it conveys intent, tone, and emotion in a way that written messages never can. With IVAS Spatial Audio we’re restoring the power of voice as the most natural way to connect and collaborate and demonstrating how voice can address hybrid work equity, promote inclusivity for visually impaired workers, and unlock the potential of AI-enhanced collaboration,” commented Homayoun Razavi, EVP & General Manager of Global Service Providers at RingCentral.

Developed through the collaboration of 13 companies, the IVAS standard was included in the 3GPP Release 18, building on the widely used Enhanced Voice Services (EVS) known as HD Voice+.

One of the key innovations during IVAS standardization was the creation of a new parametric audio format, Metadata-Assisted Spatial Audio (MASA), designed specifically for devices with design constraints and challenging form factors for spatial audio, like smartphones. The IVAS codec integrates a built-in renderer that supports head-tracked binaural audio and multi-loudspeaker playback for immersive formats, including MASA.

To enable the experiences at Mobile World Congress an immersive voice client software development kit serves as the IVAS front-end, capturing spatial audio from device microphones and converting it into the standardized MASA format. This technology enables true 3D immersive audio experiences for various types of voice calls.

Experience new IVAS concepts at MWC 2025
As part of imagining future calling with IVAS the following benefits will be available to experience on the Vodafone and Nokia booths.

Multi-stream teleconferencing: Showcasing seamless audio for complex, multi-participant meetings, where remote participants can feel left out or struggle to follow discussions. IVAS enabled teleconferencing services bridge this gap by enabling:

• Spatially distinguishing voices: Each speaker occupying a unique auditory position, making it easy to identify and follow conversations in real time. 
• Inclusive soundscapes: Giving remote participants the sense of being “in the room” with their colleagues. 
• Reducing cognitive strain: Natural soundscapes reduce the mental effort needed to process complex discussions, improving engagement and participation. 
  
   

Immersive 1-to-1 calling: Enjoying a truly immersive, spatial audio calling allows for richer, more engaging voice interactions as well as immersion in the callers surrounding area through:

• Closeness and clarity: 360° audio transforms calling experiences allowing you to step into the world of the caller, creating natural interaction for a truly shared experience.
• Accurate directional sound: With head-tracking enabled headphones, the audio adjusts to reflect the direction of the sound source, making it easier to distinguish exactly where the sounds are coming from, in real time. 
  
   

Enhanced access in industrial environments: IVAS Spatial Audio is adaptable to dynamic environments and facilitates new audio enabled skills including:

• Enhanced remote servicing or critical operations: Helping detect and isolate abnormal machine sounds in factory environments.
• Improving communication in high-noise workplaces: enabling clear communications in manufacturing plants and construction sites.

In short, IVAS addresses the growing demand for both enhanced voice and immersive multimedia services across various communication platforms.

The new IVAS technology concepts are on show at MWC 2025 from March 3-6 on the Vodafone booth Hall 3 Stand 3E11, on the Nokia booth Hall 3 Stand 3B20, or in RingCentral’s Executive Meeting Room 12Ex, Hall 7E. This showcases future opportunities for new products that leverage both the 5G Advanced IVAS codec and Nokia’s Immersive Voice technology.

Resources and additional information
Whitepaper: Nokia Immersive Voice Whitepaper 
Web Page: Nokia Immersive Voice 
Web Page: Voice over 5G (Vo5G) core

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With truly open architectures that seamlessly integrate into any ecosystem, our high-performance networks create new opportunities for monetization and scale. Service providers, enterprises and partners worldwide trust Nokia to deliver secure, reliable and sustainable networks today – and work with us to create the digital services and applications of the future.

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Nokia optical network to connect TenneT North Sea offshore wind farms to boost renewable energy volumes

• TenneT commissions eight Dutch 2GW grid connection systems representing a pioneering model in delivering offshore wind energy to land
• Nokia optical network technology to support long-distance transmission up to 300 km to connect offshore platforms to TenneT onshore telecommunications infrastructure
• Program highlights Europe’s move from fossil fuels to a more secure and green energy supply

14 January 2025

Espoo, Finland: Nokia has been selected by TenneT, one of Europe’s leading offshore transmission systems operator, to provide the critical optical networking technology for eight new 2-gigawatt (2GW) platforms in the Dutch North Sea  to deliver much-needed renewable energy to land. TenneT has commissioned three consortia — Petrofac and Hitachi Energy consortium, GE Vernova-Seatrium consortium and GE Vernova-McDermott consortium — to deliver the 2GW offshore converter platforms and onshore grid land stations. The program is a key component of the European energy transition, as the platforms will bring significant renewable energy volumes from offshore wind farms to the shore, contributing to Europe’s ambitious climate neutrality targets by 2050.

The 2GW program represents a pioneering model in energy transmission aimed at creating a more efficient, standardized approach to delivering offshore wind energy. To facilitate the operation of the wind parks behind the 2GW platforms, TenneT needs to have a communication network in place. Nokia’s solution will be used to establish a resilient, future ready optical network.

As part of this deployment, Nokia will deliver advanced amplification and transponder technologies to support long-distance transmission, single-span unrepeatered transmission of up to 400 km. The solution includes Nokia’s extended reach amplification systems to maintain reliable optical transport, even across the challenging offshore environment. Nokia’s support services will also provide comprehensive design, testing, and operational care, ensuring the network meets TenneT’s high standards for resilience and performance during each phase of construction and long-term operation.

Marco Kuijpers, Director Large Projects Offshore at TenneT, said: “As we expand our offshore energy infrastructure, connectivity becomes more important than ever. The standardized, optical network delivered by Nokia plays a central role in enabling the seamless operation and management of our 2GW platforms. With partnerships like this, Nokia is helping us towards a more independent energy supply and to advance towards the global goals for tripled renewable energy deployment set during the COP28 climate talks.”

James Watt, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Optical Networks business at Nokia, said: “At Nokia we know that ‘there’s no green without digital’. This project demonstrates that principle in action. By delivering standardized, high-performance optical networking technology that meets the unique demands of offshore environments, Nokia is supporting TenneT in providing reliable green energy to millions of homes across the Netherlands and Europe.

The implementation of Nokia’s optical networking solution will begin in early 2025, aligning with the initial construction phases of the 2GW platforms. This deployment will allow for early integration and rigorous testing of the communication systems, supporting TenneT’s timeline for full operational readiness of the first 2GW platform by 2029.

Resources and additional information
Webpage: Nokia Optical Networks
Webpage: Nokia Power Utilities
Webpage: TenneT 2GW Program
 

About Nokia 
At Nokia, we create technology that helps the world act together. 

As a B2B technology innovation leader, we are pioneering networks that sense, think and act by leveraging our work across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. In addition, we create value with intellectual property and long-term research, led by the award-winning Nokia Bell Labs.  

With truly open architectures that seamlessly integrate into any ecosystem, our high-performance networks create new opportunities for monetization and scale. Service providers, enterprises and partners worldwide trust Nokia to deliver secure, reliable and sustainable networks today – and work with us to create the digital services and applications of the future.

About TenneT

TenneT is a leading European grid operator. We are committed to providing a secure and reliable supply of electricity 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, while helping to drive the energy transition in our pursuit of a brighter energy future – more sustainable, reliable and affordable than ever before. In our role as the first cross-border Transmission System Operator (TSO) we design, build, maintain and operate over 25,000 kilometres of high-voltage electricity grid in the Netherlands and large parts of Germany, and facilitate the European energy market through our 17 interconnectors to neighbouring countries. We are one of the largest investors in national and international onshore and offshore electricity grids, with a turnover of EUR 9.2 billion and a total asset value of EUR 45 billion. Every day our 8,300 employees take ownership, show courage and make and maintain connections to ensure that the supply and demand of electricity is balanced for over 43 million people.

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Nokia and stc Group set Middle East record with 1Tbps data center connectivity across 850km network

• Nokia and stc Group successfully conducted the MEA region’s first-ever 1Tbps long haul field trial using Nokia's PSE-6s technology and stc Group’s digital expertise.
• The trial demonstrated exceptional scalability to support the growing demand for bandwidth-intensive applications such as AI, cloud services, and next-generation digital innovations.
• This achievement promises seamless connectivity and supports Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 with future-ready network infrastructure.
  
   

8 January 2025
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – Nokia and stc Group have successfully concluded the first-ever 1Tbps (terabit-per-second) long haul field trial in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region. Leveraging stc Group’s live Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) terrestrial network, this innovative trial highlights the unique potential of Nokia’s sixth generation of super-coherent Photonic Service Engine (PSE-6s) technology in delivering high-capacity, efficient, and scalable connectivity for data centers.

With the ability to significantly increase the capacity of the digital network, stc Group and Nokia are enabling faster and more efficient data transmission over long distances. With this advanced optical infrastructure, stc Group is well-positioned to meet future market demands and continue its supply of rapid and reliable connectivity while aligning with Saudi Vision 2030’s digital transformation goals.

The field trial transported 6 x 100GE and 1 x 400GE high-speed services over 1Tbs single wavelength across 850km, demonstrating the trusted performance and seamless integration of Nokia’s Data Center Interconnect (DCI) DWDM solution into stc Group’s data center environments. Designed to seamlessly fit into the data center with advanced energy efficiency, the solution addresses the dynamic needs of AI/cloud services transport and will offer consumers across the kingdom improved network efficiency and performance.

Nokia and stc Group’s collaboration sets a new benchmark for data center interconnectivity across the MEA region, in line with the kingdom’s wider digital transformation journey. With ambitions to enhance Saudi Arabia's digital infrastructure, expand 5G coverage, and promote cloud computing adoption among other Vision 2030 goals, this collaboration is laying the groundwork for future-ready network infrastructure.

Abdullateef Alsenan, Infrastructure Design GM at stc Group, said: “stc Group’s partnership with Nokia demonstrates our advancements in building a future-ready network. This milestone reflects our ability to securely support massive traffic volumes, addressing the demands of cloud services and AI applications, ultimately supporting the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 objectives. These infrastructure advancements are positioning the kingdom as a global leader in digital innovation and sustainability.”

Carlo Corti, Head of Optical Networks, Middle East and Africa at Nokia, said: “By pushing the boundaries of optical technology, Nokia is committed to trusted performance and proud to partner with stc Group in achieving this record-breaking milestone. Our Data Center Interconnect solution provides scalable, energy-efficient, resilient, and secure infrastructure to support Saudi Arabia’s ambitious digital transformation journey.”

Resources and Additional Information
Product page: Nokia Photonic Service Engines (PSE-6s)
Product page: Nokia Data Center Interconnect

About Nokia
At Nokia, we create technology that helps the world act together.

As a B2B technology innovation leader, we are pioneering networks that sense, think and act by leveraging our work across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. In addition, we create value with intellectual property and long-term research, led by the award-winning Nokia Bell Labs.

With truly open architectures that seamlessly integrate into any ecosystem, our high-performance networks create new opportunities for monetization and scale. Service providers, enterprises and partners worldwide trust Nokia to deliver secure, reliable and sustainable networks today – and work with us to create the digital services and applications of the future.

About stc Group
stc Group is a digital enabler, offering advanced solutions and driving a role in the digitalization process. The group provides a comprehensive suite of services encompassing digital infrastructure, cloud computing, cybersecurity, Internet of Things (IoT), digital payments, digital media, and digital entertainment. The group comprises 13 subsidiaries across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe.

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