At 5G World, London, Nokia will demonstrate 5G network running on commercial platforms.
Following the successful launch in February of the industry-first 5G-ready AirScale Radio Access technology Nokia will demonstrate AirScale working together with its Cloud Packet Core, running on a Nokia AirFrame data center platform, the foundation of a commercial 5G architecture.
Through the demonstration, Nokia will explain how it is accelerating the development and standardization of 5G and providing the technological means for operators to prepare and unlock the full potential of their networks.
By 2020, full 5G services are expected to be launched, enabling unprecedented levels of coverage and capacity as well as increases in speeds, enhanced energy efficiency and reductions in latency. 5G networks will provide ubiquitous connectivity for the 46 billion connected devices Bell Labs Consulting estimates will be in use, serving the augmented real-world and virtual reality needs of people and application areas such as autonomous cars, industrial automation and remote robotics, smart cities and personal healthcare.
Nokia Bell Labs will demonstrate a new concept in Network Slicing, which will create and automatically map capabilities for the radio, transport, core and application layers into a discreet network ‘slice’. Using cloud orchestration, new services can be created instantly and delivered to meet the specific and diverse demands of any customer or application, such as providing low-latency support to control machines in a factory, or providing extreme high-speed broadband to enterprises and homes.
These latest developments underscore the impact of the company’s increased research and development efforts focused around 5G, and the scale of its R&D capacity, with over 40,000 scientists and engineers globally, the company said.
Other highlights from Nokia at 5G World include the following:
Nokia will showcase its AirScale Radio Access, supporting a 4.5 GHz 5G cmWave access system using higher order MIMO antenna technology.
Nokia’s Cloud Packet Core will be demonstrated, featuring Mobility Management Entity (MME), System Architecture Evolution (SAE) Gateway and the Home Subscriber Server (HSS) – all operating on the Nokia AirFrame data center platform.
Nokia will highlight how end-to-end network slicing will allow operators to exploit unique network characteristics required to deliver specific types of applications and services
Hossein Moiin, CTO of the Mobile Networks business group, will deliver a keynote on making 5G a commercial reality, talking about the real opportunities of 5G, while outlining Nokia’s 5G commercialization program. Harri Holma, Nokia Fellow, will also give a keynote in which he will discuss the evolution from LTE to 5G.
There will be interactive live demonstrations of applications for transportation such as connected cars, and robotics for ‘Industry 4.0’ to show the importance of low latency in critical communications.
