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WDM technology to serve our customers
with more demanding traffic growth, low
latency requirements and agility for their
traffic patterns.” In the trial over MTEL-
Telekom Serbia live traffic network, Nokia
demonstrated 600Gbit/s line performance
over a 600km path consisting in 6 spans,
through C-F ROADM nodes. By operating
over spectrally efficient 100GHz WDM
channels, Telekom Serbia and MTEL will
be able to maximize capacity, performance,
and operational efficiency while lowering
network TCO.

Nokia Partners with Indian Institute of Science to Establish Networked
Robotics Center of Excellence

Nokia and the Indian Institute of Science capability and competence in India, and our and enabling rapid growth of 2G/GSM
(IISc) today announced the opening of collaboration with a prestigious institution technology in India in early 2000 and
the Nokia Center of Excellence (CoE) in like IISc will enable exciting possibilities for bringing high-quality 3G services in 2011 to
Networked Robotics at the IISc Bengaluru. industry and society.” Professor Govindan pioneering 4G/LTE technology in 2012 and
The CoE will promote inter-disciplinary Rangarajan, Director at IISc, said: “Next now preparing the nation for 5G, Nokia is an
research involving robotics and advanced generation communication technologies integral part of India’s remarkable progress
communication technologies in 5G like 5G and 6G will contribute enormously in technology and connectivity over last 22
and Artificial Intelligence (AI). The CoE to the growth of India’s economy. Our years. Nokia’s active CSR programs in India
will also develop use cases across collaboration with a world-class company align with Nokia’s key themes of Corporate
industrial automation, agriculture and like Nokia will enable us to explore new Community Investment and Section 135
disaster management. The center will frontiers for advanced technology research and Schedule VII of the Companies Act
facilitate engagement and cooperation to benefit society as well as provide state- 2013 and Companies (CSR Policy) Rules
between academia, start-ups and industry of-the-art training to our students to enable 2014. Nokia has invested a cumulative
ecosystem partners to research and them to become technology leaders in amount of over 150 crores INR in CSR
develop these use cases. The research the coming decades.” From launching efforts in India so far.
projects undertaken by the CoE will include
the design of advanced robotics, AI and
automation solutions built upon next
generation telecom networks and their
applications for solving societally relevant
problems. The agreement for setting up the
CoE in Networked Robotics was concluded
in August 2020, and since then a core group
has worked tirelessly to set up and equip
the center. Nokia will fund the CoE for three
consecutive years in order to sustain the
first phase of the partnership between Nokia
and IISc. Nishant Batra, Chief Strategy and
Technology Officer at Nokia, said: “We want
India to drive global innovation in an era of
convergence where a few years from now,
extended reality (XR) and digital-physical
fusion will allow us to create, collaborate
and communicate in unprecedented ways.
There is substantial untapped intellectual

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