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based on business success. Tasks and
risks related to cloud infrastructure are
eliminated allowing them to focus on their
core business: running the fixed access
network. Sandy continued: “Operators can
tailor the subscription package choosing
the Service Level Agreements and levels
of support to meet their operational needs.
They can deploy different Nokia SaaS
instances for use in production, lab testing,
pilots, or development.” Metronet and LUS
Fiber use Nokia’s all-inclusive SaaS service
where Nokia performs the application
hosting, including the set-up, monitoring,
maintenance and updates. Julie Kunstler,
Chief Analyst at Omdia, said: “Being able
are also part of the line-up. Sandy Motley, competitive world, operation efficiency is to opt out of running software on costly,
President, Fixed Networks at Nokia, said: key to both high quality customer service and complex, on-premise infrastructure is a big
“SaaS gets operators started quickly. business profitability.” Operators can start advantage for operators. Furthermore, a
No special IT set-up means reduced with a small investment and subscription SaaS model means more flexibility and an
upfront deployment costs, and in a highly plan and can easily scale up and down easier path to delivering new services.”

Nokia to Lead the Next Phase of Europe’s 6G Flagship Project

Nokia announced that it will lead the role of networks and 6G will only deepen. It Trustworthiness: Hexa-X-II will ensure data
Hexa-X-II project, the second phase of the is essential that we keep the larger context transparency, security and privacy, and
European 6G flagship initiative. This new in mind as we imagine the new network.” network robustness.
phase will expand the Hexa-X partner list Enabled by the outcomes of Hexa-X As part of the announcement, Ericsson
to 44 organizations that are tasked with innovations, the Hexa-X-II consortium will takes the role as technical manager for
creating the pre-standardized platform and strive to overcome the following societal Hexa-X-II. Orange, TIM SpA, TU Dresden,
system view that will form the basis for challenges: University of Oulu, IMEC and Atos will help
many inputs into future 6G standardization. Sustainability: Hexa-X-II will research coordinate various work packages such
The Hexa-X-II project has been awarded technologies that contribute to a zero- as radio evolution and innovation, future
funding from the European Commission as carbon footprint and limit energy and devices and flexible infrastructure, smart
part of the first call of the Smart Network material consumption. network management and values, and
and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS-JU). Inclusion: Hexa-X-II aims to provide requirements and ecosystem. Nokia has
This is the next significant step toward connectivity to people in developing been at the forefront in commercializing
bringing together key industry stakeholders countries as well as to the under-privileged every generation of wireless technology,
in Europe. The goal of both Hexa-X and members of developed societies. from the first GSM call to the best performing
Hexa-X-II is to establish Europe as leader
in 6G. Hexa-X-II represents the full value
chain for future connectivity solutions.
Its members range from network vendors
and communication service providers to
verticals and technology providers, as
well as the most prominent European
communications research institutes. Peter
Vetter, President of Nokia’s Bell Labs Core
Research, said: “Nokia is honored to lead
in this pioneering project. In the 6G era,
the digital, physical and human worlds will
become far more integrated. Our goals
must reflect this level of integration and
inter-dependency. As billions more people
and devices get connected, urbanization
intensifies, and we strive to manage the
limitations on energy and materials, the

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