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Nokia and SINET Deploy XGS-PON Network for Enterprises

Nokia announced that SINET, Cambodia's leading Internet Service exceptional network reliability along with ultra-high speed. We
Provider, has chosen Nokia to deploy its XGS Passive Optical are committed to providing a world-class network experience to
Network (PON) solution to address the growing demand for our business users so they are able to deliver the best possible
ultra-high-speed broadband of the enterprises. Nokia's XGS-PON services to their customers. We are already using Nokia's GPON
solution will be initially deployed in the capital city of Phnom solution and are confident that its field-proven XGS-PON solution
Penh before being expanded to other cities and regions. Once will allow us to provide a differentiated experience to Cambodia's
deployed, SINET's future-ready network will be able to address the enterprises. Nokia has received the Type Approval of XGS-PON
demand for more capacity and support new use cases, such as equipment from the Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia,
smart cities and 5G backhauling. The deployment, which includes which proves us the quality of the solution and the readiness to
the upgrade of the existing Nokia fiber access nodes, will be deploy in the Cambodia market.”Ajay Sharma, Head of Thailand
completed in 2022. Nokia's fiber access solution is powered by and Cambodia at Nokia, said: “We are excited that SINET has
its Quillion chipset, which concurrently supports three generations reaffirmed its confidence in our solution. Our industry-leading XGS-
of PON technologies, GPON, XGS-PON and 25G PON. It is 50% PON solution will allow SINET to improve the overall speed and
more energy efficient than the previous generation of chipsets, quality of broadband, which will help them grow their revenues and
allowing the service providers to reduce operational expenditure. attract new customers. The enterprise users will benefit from an
Mr. Diep Kong, Chief Technical Officer of SINET, said: "As the increase in network capacity, speed, and reliability."
digital ecosystem becomes all-pervasive, enterprises need an

Nokia and Contela Successfully Conduct Korea’s First-of-Its-Kind Private

5G Interoperability Trial

Nokia and Contela have announced the completion of Korea's first requirements. Nokia technical leadership coupled with our proven
interoperability trial between SME (small and medium enterprise) expertise will accelerate the development of South Korea's private
Core and global Radio Access Networks (RAN) for private 5G at 5G market." Josh Lee, Customer Team Head of Enterprise at Nokia,
Nokia Korea's Private 5G Open Lab (e-Um 5G Open Lab). The in- said: "The successful completion of the interoperability test en-
teroperability trial enables Nokia and Contela to advance the pri- ables us to offer diverse and advanced Industry 4.0 solutions for
vate 5G market in Korea by providing a diverse selection of core private 5G deployments. The interoperability between our RAN and
networks for private 5G network solutions. Successful comple- Contela's core solution allows us to offer more options to the en-
tion of the interoperability trial allows enterprises to opt between terprises thus enabling them to leverage the benefits of 5G to gain
Nokia's industrial-grade Core or Contela's optimized core solution, a business edge. We are looking forward to inviting local players
depending on their unique requirements. The two companies will to our private 5G Open Lab for the development of the private 5G
work closely to develop the private 5G ecosystem in the country. ecosystem in Korea."
Nokia Customer Premise Equipment (CPE), RAN and Contela's
core solutions were used to conduct the interoperability trial which
demonstrates the harmony between Nokia and Contela's solutions.
Earlier this year, Nokia and Contela had announced a collaboration
to provide private 5G network solutions to Korea's public sector
companies. Dr. Soon Park, CEO of Contela, said: "We are pleased
with the successful completion of the interoperability trial using
Nokia RAN and Contela core solution. The trial will further advance
the growing private 5G ecosystem in the country and will provide
new solutions and applications to our customers in line with their

PTCL, Nokia Trial 1Tbps Per Wavelength Upgrade

State-backed full-service provider Pakistan Telecommunication ty and provide better customer experience. PTCL CTO Jafar Khalid
Company Limited (PTCL) has conducted its first field trial of 1Tbps said of the development: ‘We tested the scalability and evolution of
transport capacity per wavelength. The test was conducted in our optical transport network by enhancing the existing capacity to
collaboration with Finnish vendor Nokia and carried out in a live 1-Terabit per channel, to facilitate the ever-growing data traffic de-
network environment, where PTCL’s metro transport network was mand of our corporate and consumer segments. Nokia’s modern
upgraded to 1Tbps per channel, improving capacity to 32Tbps per technology and expertise has helped us to test bandwidths up-to
fiber. In a statement from the pair, the operator noted that the trial 1Tbps, that will help provide a superior customer experience and
was based on Nokia’s Photonic Service Engine Transport Technolo- enable seamless future expansion of our transport network capac-
gy, which the vendor says is designed to maximize network capaci- ity across Pakistan.’
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