Nokia and China
Mobile have signed an agreement to jointly investigate how China Mobile could
extend its service offerings for vertical markets using the massive
connectivity, ultra reliability and ultra-low latency capabilities of 5G,
reports ITRealms.
The research will focus on how industries
could benefit from the growth of smart cities, smart transportation and
intelligent video analytics.
With the deployment of 5G, China Mobile will be able to
leverage network slicing to discretely support myriad new services and
businesses simultaneously with differing service level requirements. Under the
agreement, which extends Nokia and China Mobile's existing 5G
collaboration, the companies will jointly research and trial use-cases
leveraging Nokia 5G Future X network architecture as well as
NB-IoT and MEC.
The research, which will take place at China Mobile's
5G joint innovation lab, will aim to better understand:
- How
industries can be integrated into the smart city ecosystem to take
advantage of the massive new connectivity of people and things.
- How
businesses such as logistics and car rental companies can benefit from the
widespread introduction of 5G-connected automated vehicles. Nokia and
China Mobile will also expand the existing Car2X trial ecosystem in Wuzhen
to advance the use of automated vehicles, as well as technologies that
improve vehicle safety.
- How to
further enhance future network architecture security using intelligent
network protection techniques.
- How
China Mobile can access and benefit from embedded network intelligence and
the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) architecture to manage and
orchestrate services with network resources, and improve service
automation and network performance.
The signing of the agreement
was witnessed by Shang Bing, Chairman of China Mobile, and
Rajeev Suri, President and CEO of Nokia, at a ceremony in Barcelona,
ahead of Mobile World Congress 2018.
Marc Rouanne,
president of Mobile Networks at Nokia, said: "Together
with China Mobile we will leverage 5G to identify the applications that meet
future industry needs. At Nokia, we are bringing our Reefchark chipsets,
new advanced algorithms from our research teams from Nokia Bell Labs,
as well as our Optics, IP and cloud compute technology to boost our end-to-end
5G Future X Network architecture. We are committed to delivering open
architecture development to allow operators such as China Mobile to leverage
network intelligence."
Nonye Dom/GEE
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