Nokia

Final word on this fascinating Nokia narrative, this time from the independent analyst community – about how the Finnish firm is losing a little to Ericsson in its 5G heartlands, but also switching it up with clever short- and long-term …

Industrial giants and telecom vendors are pushing hard on private 5G – Siemens has expanded globally into North America, Nokia is continuing to land mission-critical enterprise deals, and a new UK open RAN push shows how private networks are becoming …

Ericsson has emerged as “the primary RAN partner” to Virgin Media O2 in the UK, expanding its footprint in a major national 5G SA upgrade project that appears to come at the expense of Nokia – despite the Finnish firm …

Coherent optics, photonic line systems, and software agents are helping cloud providers and telco companies to manage the explosive AI workload demands on fiber networks – across cutting-edge interconnect systems, upgraded longhaul infrastructure, and emerging mobile access networks. As told …

Post-Infinera integration, the Finnish vendor’s growth target is data center interconnect Nokia’s optical pitch this year at OFC was crystalline, more intentional, and landed somewhere between breakthrough and inevitable.  A new building block-based approach A diverse set of new applications …

The tech is not the story (stupid!), says Siemens; it is a part of a solution, of course – just like IoT, and just like AI. Industrial enterprises have their own problems, and don’t buy the hype anyway; but sometimes …

The message from Nvidia chief Jensen Huang at GTC this week is that AI is no longer about models or chips alone, but about monetizing inference at scale – where tokens become the core unit of value, and data centers …

Nvidia’s trillion-dollar AI infrastructure forecast set the tone at GTC yesterday, framing its AI-RAN partnerships with Nokia and T-Mobile (part of a $2tn industry) as a new frontier for low-latency inference at the edge. In sum – what to know: …

As AI workloads splinter across the fragmented cloud-infrastructure landspace, enterprises are scrambling to keep performance, governance, and costs in check. Equinix reckons the answer is in neutral interconnection hubs that simplify last-mile access, orchestrate distributed infrastructure, and bring inference closer …

While most of the big talk at MWC is about 5G and 6G, the most urgent AI infrastructure work is with fibre-heavy data centre interconnects. Cisco, and certain others, are capitalising on this east-west traffic surge, with mobile and edge …

Jennifer Artley, in charge of private 5G at Verizon Business has left. The news compounds unease in the market following Nokia’s decision to quit. Verizon Business remains focused, it says; interest in Nokia is considerable. In sum – what to …

AI is already a scaled, mobile-native workload, which is forcing networks to evolve from SLA-driven capacity models to deterministic, programmable architectures that connect data centres, transport, and the edge. So says Nokia chief Justin Hotard at MWC in Barcelona. In …

MasOrange evaluated bids from several vendors, including Ericsson, Nokia, Huawei, ZTE, and Mavenir In sum – what to know: Unified 5G SA core deployment – MasOrange will replace dual legacy cores with a single Ericsson-supplied 5G SA core under a …

Telefónica is working with Nokia to test how AI agents can support the use of network APIs In sum – what to know: Open Gateway limits – Harmand said today’s API-centric model works for atomic capabilities, but becomes structurally inefficient …

Nokia also estimates that AI could represent 30% of all global traffic In sum – what to know: A new traffic wave – Unlike video or SaaS, AI generates compounding demand through user interactions, API calls, agent-to-agent workflows, and constant …

From global private-5G deployments at Vodafone Business to national spectrum policy gridlock at Vodafone Idea, plus the looming exit of Nokia, the private 5G market looks both more mature and more fragile than it ever has. The numbers are improving, …

At UPTIME, Vodafone Business detailed 173 live private 5G deployments in around 20 countries, and also signalled new vendor additions – likely including Ericsson, plus Celona, possibly, or another “enterprise-friendly” player – and delivered a candid verdict on the industry’s …

Nokia saw net sales rise by three percent last quarter and two percent in the whole of last year, even as margins slipped, partly because of investments and restructuring. Revenue growth came mostly from strong fiber-optic and data center demand, …

The AI build-out is rewriting the fibre comms order-book – between data centres and within data centres, right down to the rack itself. As power constraints, scale-out architectures, and interconnect bottlenecks push fibre ever closer to the data-centre edge, optical …

As private 5G matures, Ericsson highlights convergence as a key enterprise theme: bringing together dedicated private networks and neutral-host indoor coverage; the firm also pushes back against claims that its telco heritage leaves it out of step with enterprise requirements. …

Research commissioned by the newly reorganised vendor finds most US and European tech leaders believe existing infrastructure is unfit for the next phase of AI – just as Nokia pivots hard toward AI-native networking. In sum – what to know: …

Private 5G is outpacing Wi-Fi for its early growth, and its trajectory is diverging as well. Just as Nokia checks-out, Ericsson argues that a rising tide of high-value industrial use cases is making the case for private 5G very clear …

Reports in Germany suggest a further 300 Nokia roles in Greece and Italy to be cut, adding to hundreds already announced in Germany and France. Staff in Munich, Paris, Athens, and Vimercate have staged coordinated protests. Reports in Germany say …

The telco’s CTO, Desmond Cheung, told RCR Wireless News that the AI-RAN Research Center fundamentally shifts Indosat’s network strategy from being connectivity-led to AI-native In sum – what to know: Indosat shifts to an AI-native network strategy – The AI …

Ericsson won’t be drawn on Nokia’s retreat, but it’s happy to talk about its own momentum in the private 5G market: rising deployments, surging traffic, and sales that are outrunning the early years of Wi-Fi. Far from stalling, it suggests …