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Nokia Core Networks Business Chooses AMD EPYC™ Processors to Help
Lower Energy Use, Costs for CSPs

Nokia announced that its Core Networks including its own operations, products in efficiency and the overall performance of
business is using 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ use, logistics, and final assembly supplier its operations.” Fran Heeran, SVP & Head
processors to power the servers that factories. Dan McNamara, SVP & GM, of Core Networks, Cloud and Network
deliver Nokia Core cloud-native software EPYC, Server, AMD said: “We are excited Services at Nokia, said: “Through the latest
products, expanding the server-chip to collaborate with Nokia to provide their generation of AMD EPYC processors and
choices available to Nokia communication customers with the performance, efficiency Nokia’s cloud-native Core software, we are
service provider (CSPs) customers in order and overall sustainability benefits of 3rd helping CSPs shrink the carbon footprint of
to drive new levels of performance and Gen AMD EPYC processors. With our unique their networks. This is critical as advanced
energy efficiency improvements of 5G capability to offer high core counts in an 5G service roll-out accelerates, with the
networks. The announcement represents energy efficient package, we are enabling associated implications for new demands
an extension of Nokia’s broader efforts outstanding performance for telco and 5G on energy consumption and our continued
to accelerate digitalization to help the workloads, while supporting Nokia and innovation push to minimize the impact of
ICT industry reduce its environmental the ICT industry’s quest to improve energy those demands.”
footprint and to support other industries
becoming more resource efficient. Nokia is
targeting up to a 40% reduction in server
power consumption to run Core workloads
using AMD EPYC™ processors. Nokia CSP
customers can purchase the AMD EPYC
powered servers* through Nokia or direct
from other suppliers when they become
commercially available during the first
half of 2022. Existing servers using other
chips that deliver Nokia Core software
will continue to be available. Nokia has
committed to decreasing its emissions
by 50% by 2030 across its value chain,

Nokia Upgrades Backbone Network for WINDTRE

Italian telco WINDTRE has selected Nokia Benoit Hanssen, Chief Technology Officer customers in the most efficient way. It will
to deploy a high-performance optical at WINDTRE, said: ‘Nokia’s solution … will also enable us to grow our subscriber base
backbone network. The scalable solution help us provide next generation broadband and provide best-in-class experience to
will support line rates up to 600Gbps. services to both consumer and business WINDTRE’s existing customers.’

Nokia and OIV Digital Signals and Networks to Deliver First 5G SA Industrial
Private Wireless Campus Network in Croatia for AD Plastik

Nokia has announced it is partnering manufacturing campus in Zagreb, Croatia. industry-specific protocol connectivity.
with OIV, a leading provider of national It will replace and overcome the limitations Marinko Došen, President of AD Plastik
strategic communications infrastructure of the existing Wi-Fi infrastructure to allow Group, said: “Further digitalization and
in Croatia, to deliver a 5G private wireless AD Plastik to implement new Industry automation of business in our industry is
network solution that will enhance 4.0 use-cases and enhance operational simply a necessity. Just as your chances
operational efficiency and enable new efficiency. The solution offers capabilities on the market are significantly reduced
capabilities at AD Plastik’s automotive beyond connectivity, such as local edge if you produce vehicles that cannot be
component manufacturing facility in computing, video services and a catalog connected, so you have to keep up with
Croatia. Nokia Digital Automation Cloud of applications. It is a compact, easy- trends in the production of automotive
(DAC) application platform will enable low to-deploy platform, comprising network components. Industry 4.0 is our reality,
latency and secure, reliable 5G wireless equipment, a cloud-based operation and we must be ready to continue its
connectivity for equipment, machinery, monitoring system and industrial implementation. 5G technology, in addition
and a set of applications at AD Plastik’s connectors that ease standard and to being a hundred times faster than the

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