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Nokia Announces New SaaS Services Targeting Network Energy Efficiency

and Home Device Management

Nokia announced two new Software-as-Service (SaaS) connectivity to the smart home. By standardizing and automating the data
offerings that help communication service providers recollection process, Nokia Home Device Management SaaS provides a
(CSPs) and enterprises strengthen their energy efficiency single, integrated, standard base platform that supports home devices
efforts and optimize the management of home devices. from any vendor. This new SaaS service is also commercially available,
The announcement is the latest push by Nokia to provide as is Nokia Anomaly Detection SaaS. Announced in November 2021,
its customers with faster time-to-value in operating their Nokia Anomaly Detection SaaS is a machine learning service aimed at
telecom networks and delivering new services. Using AI, finding and remediating network anomalies before they affect network
Nokia AVA (“Analytics Virtualization and Automation”) customers. Nokia has a leading position in the home device management
for Energy SaaS closely monitors multi-vendor network market, with over 150 million home devices globally that are managed by
traffic patterns to reduce connectivity resources during the company’s software solution. Similarly, in analytics, Nokia is rated #1
low usage periods. Through constant monitoring of by Appledore Consulting for market share in “AI Ops” and “Network Data
network traffic patterns and making adjustments in Management.” Michael Soper, Senior Analyst, at TBR, said: “Nokia’s new
real-time, this software tool can realize two- to five-fold SaaS offerings represent a significant change in the telecom market, as
energy savings compared to non-AI systems that perform SaaS is the acceleration engine for the telecom industry to realize the
temporary network resource shutdowns based on fixed full potential of 5G and beyond.” Hamdy Farid, Senior Vice President,
schedules. Nokia AVA for Energy SaaS also helps CSPs Business Applications at Nokia, said: “The convergence of cloud native
spot anomalies and benchmark the energy efficiency of software, hyperscaler collaboration, and 5G makes the business case for
passive infrastructure, such as batteries, power supplies, SaaS very compelling. These latest Nokia SaaS services reflect the path
and air conditioning units that can account for up to Nokia is leading to help our customers accelerate their time to value;
50 percent of overall energy consumption. Nokia AVA reduce complexity; and automate the services lifecycle through software
for Energy SaaS, commercially available today, reflects consumed purely on demand.”
Nokia’s broader commitment to cut emissions by 50
percent between 2019 and 2030 across its value chain,
including its own operations, products in use, logistics,
and final assembly supplier factories. Nokia Home Device
Management SaaS is a vendor agnostic, automated,
secure and scalable device management platform capable
of managing millions of home devices, like smart home
thermostats and connected refrigerators. The new SaaS
service enables operators to remotely manage Customer
Premise Equipment (CPE), such as residential gateway, 5G
fixed wireless access devices, Wifi extenders and IP set-
top boxes; and provides ultra reliable secure broadband

Nokia, Elisa and Qualcomm Partner to Achieve 2Gbps 5G Uplink Speed on
mmWave

Nokia, Elisa, and Qualcomm Technologies Nokia Arena in Tampere, Finland. In a press antenna modules. Commenting, Sami
have achieved what they claim are ‘record- release regarding the development Nokia Komulainen, Executive Vice President,
breaking’ 5G uplink speeds of 2.1Gbps, said that for the trial it had provided its Production at Elisa, said: ‘Elisa is leading
doing so in a live demonstration at the AirScale base station in 26GHz mmWave in the development of 5G services in
spectrum over Elisa’s commercial 5G Finland and this is yet another important
network. Additionally, Nokia confirmed it step in our efforts to bring the fastest
had deployed its carrier aggregation (CA) speeds and best 5G experiences to our
technology to make the best use of the customers. We previously announced
available spectrum assets, with the CA reaching 8Gbps downlink speeds with
setup including four component carriers Nokia, and Qualcomm Technologies and
of 100MHz each. Meanwhile, it was noted now we have pushed the possibilities of
that the network was connected to a 5G 5G technology even further with this new
device powered by a Snapdragon X65 trial reaching over 2Gbps uplink speeds.
5G Modem-RF System featuring fourth- This will deliver incredible and enhanced
generation Qualcomm QTM545 mmWave services to visitors of the Nokia Arena.’

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