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include more than radio access from as latency, reliability, availability, security network architectures allows operators
the end-to-end portfolio. According to a and TCO. Highlights of the Lab include: to deploy dynamic, on-demand high-
study from Nokia Bell Labs Consulting, a Service and Slicing Operations Center: bandwidth services across diverse access
5G end-to-end network with an integrated The center quantifies the value of Nokia’s technologies.
solution from a single prime vendor can end-to-end portfolio through live network Programmable Network Operating
reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) configurations in different industrial System: Manually configured, static and
by more than 20 percent and decrease automation and consumer use cases, and closed networks have run their course.
time to market by at least 30 percent, dynamically models resulting performance The new network operating system will
compared to multi-vendor solutions. The and TCO metrics in real time, revealing create, optimize and maintain end-to-end
Future X Lab in Espoo is a live end-to-end the clear operational and economic network slices for differentiated services
network and application lab for the 5G advantages. and TCO gains. This will evolve from rules-
era where visitors can see real consumer, Massive Scale Access: Massive throughput based solutions and move to true zero
enterprise and industrial scenarios unfold and capacity are the muscles behind 5G era touch enabled by AI across the network.
in a myriad of simulated and physical services, with 5G New Radio, Ultra-Reliable Digital Value Platform: This will allow
environments, all orchestrated on a single Low Latency Communication (URLLC) and industries to better perceive, understand,
network managing individual network massive Machine Type Communications control, and automate the physical world,
slices. Visitors will be able to compare complemented with fixed access solutions creating new network-agnostic tools to
the performance of a Nokia end-to-end serving as the enabling forces behind the enable novel services and applications.
5G network against existing networks, 4th industrial revolution. Dynamic Data Security: The next industrial
clearly demonstrating the advantages of Universal Adaptive Core: An agile, revolution will require a concurrent
the Future X network architecture in key access technology-agnostic adaptive revolution in security. Multi-layer
performance and economic metrics such cloud-native core for decentralized safeguards, driven by machine learning,
network programmability and enhanced by
ASICs customized for security will provide
protection from the vulnerabilities of today
and tomorrow.
The Future X Lab in Espoo is an extension of
the Future X Lab opened last year at Nokia
Bell Labs headquarters in Murray Hill, N.J.
The two Labs are seamlessly connected to
demonstrate true global interworking and
network slicing, with the widest variety
of use cases, run locally or remotely – a
continent away. Nokia and Nokia Bell
Labs continue to be chief contributors to
5G technologies and its development as
a standards-based technology. Nokia Bell
Labs has pioneered key 5G innovations,
including millimeter wave and massive
MIMO, among others.

Nokia and Etisalat Complete Terabit-Per-Second Trial

Nokia says it has carried out the world’s first single-
carrier terabit-per-second trial over the fiber-optic
network of Etisalat in the United Arab Emirates
(UAE). According to Nokia’s press release: ‘The trial
successfully transmitted a record 50.8Tbps using
multiple wavelengths, each with a net information
rate of 1.3Tbps, over a 93km fiber route of Etisalat’s
wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) network.’
Esmaeel Alhammadi, Senior Vice President for
Network Development at Etisalat, said: ’Increasing
network capacity helps us to provide bandwidth-
hungry services such as 5G extreme mobile
broadband, fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) and data
center interconnect for enterprises’.

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