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possibilities. For industrial sites, MX opportunities to combine technologies offering, the MX Boost routing functions
boost also functions with brownfield non- and address heterogenous use-cases, will be made available as an application
Nokia Wi-Fi or other wireless technologies, while always keeping the determinism and running on Nokia MX Industrial Edge and
allowing enterprises to combine it with deep coverage of private wireless. This will launch new field routers as part of a
private 4.9G/LTE for increased determinism gives enterprises the opportunity to tweak new range of industrial devices that also
and increased capacity. Leo Gergs, connectivity characteristics exactly to their support the new MX Boost capabilities.
Senior Analyst, ABI Research, said: “While requirements: For example, enterprise MX Boost is a proven technology that is
the appetite for enterprise connectivity could leverage private wireless 4.9G/LTE as used in the Nokia Train-to-Ground solution
– and private networks - is growing a coverage layer and combine it with Wi-Fi to meet the challenges of mission-critical
steadily, potential implementers are often 6 or 5G with millimeter wave spectrum for urban and metro rail communications.
overwhelmed by having to choose from an additional capacity. Alternatively, they could The solution uses multipath connectivity
array of different technologies. The key to combine two 4.9G/LTE bands for even more to ensure reliable, seamless performance
fostering enterprise connectivity, therefore, stable low latency and 0ms hand-over, if in challenging situations, such as when
is to offer an easily deployable solution that required.” Stephan Litjens, Vice President, traveling at high speed, through tunnels,
takes away this complex decision and lets Nokia Enterprise Solutions, said: “As a handing over between two service provider
enterprises focus on what they can do best. leader in private wireless we want to deliver networks and at busy stations. Nokia will
Nokia MX Boost, presents the industry with the most innovative solutions to meet the be exhibiting at Hannover Messe 30.5-
the 1st instantiation of a simple technology connectivity needs of all our customers. 2.6.2022 in Hall 5, Booth E48. Company
that breaks the boundaries between Wi-Fi The capabilities of private 4.9G/LTE and 5G executives will be on-hand to discuss
and 4G/LTE & 5G technologies. It means allow it to support demanding applications, Industry 4.0 transformation with industrial
enterprises no longer need to worry about and in many cases, deployments leveraging grade wireless connectivity solutions,
having to choose the right technology for multiple layers and frequency bands. Nokia built for factory operations. Nokia will also
their use cases, thanks to the ability of MX MX Boost can aggregate and integrate have industry solution experts available
Boost to combine different connectivity those layers to super-charge performance to demonstrate the Nokia MX Boost. To
technologies – including legacy Wi- and reliability. It operates over any Wi-Fi arrange an interview with a Nokia executive
Fi - into a single wireless connectivity network, as well as with the new Nokia please contact martha.oliver_vargas@
system. With MX Boost offering 2 different DAC Wi-Fi, to allow companies the greatest nokia.com.
modes and the ability to operate with choice in the way they support their digital
any wireless technologies, it offers many transformation.” As part of this new

Nokia and Taiwan Mobile Ink Energy-Efficient 5G Coverage Expansion Deal

Nokia has announced its selection by AirScale portfolio supporting TWM’s with Taiwan Star. Nokia will provide
Taiwan Mobile (TWM) to enhance the commitment to reaching 100% renewable equipment from its AirScale portfolio,
latter’s 5G coverage across Taiwan. In a energy by 2040. Further, Nokia claimed the including base stations and massive MIMO
press release detailing the development, work it will undertake will also provide a antennas to boost network performance
the Finnish vendor said that under the deal smooth network evolution path following and capacity. The deal also covers the
it would provide its latest energy-efficient the completion of TWM’s proposed merger introduction of 4G/5G dynamic spectrum
sharing to maximize the advantages of
TWM’s spectrum assets, which include
700MHz and 2100MHz bands. Nokia will
also help the operator to modernize its LTE
infrastructure, as well as consolidate the
network management and optimization
under a centralised tool for a superior 4G/5G
RAN network performance. Further, it will
expand its existing 5G Standalone Core
at TWM to enable the operator to provide
advanced 5G applications, such as network
slicing for enterprises and businesses and
Edge Cloud deployments for low-latency
services. The deployment will include
Nokia AirFrame server hardware with Multi-
access Edge Computing (MEC) capabilities,
IMS Voice Core capacity expansion, and
Voice over New Radio (VoNR).

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