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NOKIA IN 2014 67
Board review
Nokia Networks
operatinghighlights
■ Nokia Networks added significant
commercial mobile broadband and services
contracts during 2014, including: a contract
with the world’s largest wireless operator,
China Mobile, for the build-out of the
operator’s TD-LTE network; a contract with
T-Mobile USA for LTE-Advanced equipment
and related services for its nationwide LTE
network; a five-year contract with Vodafone
in the operator’s Project Spring network
upgrade; a contract on the expansion of
Everything Everywhere’s LTE network in the
United Kingdom; a three-year contract with
Telefónica in Spain for LTE radio access
equipment and professional services;
and a five-year contract with Elisa in
Finland as the sole supplier of the
operator’s LTE network.
■ At the end of 2014, Nokia Networks had
162 commercial LTE contracts and was
a key LTE radio network supplier to 15
of the world’s top 20 LTE operators.
■Nokia Networks also added a large number
of other mobile broadband contracts
including two 3G networks and services
contracts in India.
■ Nokia Networks continued to show
leadership in 4G radio technology,
demonstrating a throughput speed of
almost 4Gbps with SK Telecom in the
Republic of Korea and a speed of 2.6Gbps
over a single sector in Sprint’s TD-LTE
network. Nokia Networks was the first
in the world to trial LTE for national TV
broadcasting in Germany and enhanced
its LTE portfolio with a number of product
launches, including the world’s first 3.5GHz
carrier aggregation capable radio and a
solution to smoothly migrate WiMAX
networks to TD-LTE-Advanced and a LTE-A
3 carrier aggregation solution to support
athroughput speed of up to 450Mbps
ready by the time commercial devices
startto ship.
■ Nokia Networks continued to invest in
innovation and further evolved the Nokia
Smart Scheduler in its LTE base stations
which are now able to provide up to 30%
faster downlink speeds at the cell edge;
announced new Centralized RAN software
capable of doubling the uplink capacity of
existing LTE networks by linking together
multiple base stations and turning the
interference into useful traffic; launched
new Single RAN Advanced features; and
added new software features to its Liquid
Radio Software Suite.
■In the area of small cells, Nokia Networks
extended its Flexi Zone architecture, making
it the small cell solution for all deployment
scenarios, including indoor deployments;
introduced new innovations to its small cell
portfolio such as the double-capacity small
cell base station Flexi Zone G2 Pico and an
indoor planning service enhanced by 3D
geolocation-based HetNet planning for
in-building solutions.
■Nokia Networks renewed managed services
contracts with Saudi Telecom Company,
Etisalat Nigeria and Mobily (Etihad Etisalat
Company) of Saudi Arabia.
■Nokia Networks and NTT DoCoMo agreed to
collaborate on research and standardization
of 5G technologies and to jointly work on
a5G proof-of-concept system; and Nokia
Networks hosted the first Brooklyn 5G
Summit together with the NYU Wireless
Research Center.
■Nokia Networks and HP announced
the intention to extend their existing
partnership to provide telco operators
with an integrated Telco Cloud solution
compliant with ETSI NFV principles. The
cooperation extends beyond hardware
and software to encompass the technical,
services and commercial capabilities
needed to deliver, maintain and operate
a Telco Cloud. Nokia Networks also
announced an expansion of its long-term
partnerships with Juniper and RedHat to
advance Telco Cloud for mobile broadband.
NTT DoCoMo completed proof-of-concept
trials that verified the feasibility of NFV
using the software and equipment of Nokia
Networks, and with MTS in Russia, Nokia
carried out the first voice over LTE call on
a Telco Cloud infrastructure using the LTE
radio network with Telco Cloud based
voice core network technology and Nokia’s
Professional Services.
■ Nokia Networks created a new partnering
unit to focus on growing a robust
ecosystem with partners. The unit will
ensure that Nokia Networks is able to
leverage partner solutions to complement
its own portfolio and open up specific
interfaces to embed partner products
seamlessly into Nokia’s mobile
broadbandportfolio.
■Nokia Networks opened its mobile
broadband security center in Berlin,
Germany. The Center is a hub of leading
expertise focused on creating robust
telco security. Equipped with its own
fully-operational LTE test network, the
Center provides a platform for co-operating
with mobile network operators, partners,
governments and academic institutes
to develop and share network security
know-how and expertise and to help
operators fight the growing security
threats to their networks.
Nokia Networks
Global Services
By the end of 2014
Nokia Networks Global
Services segment had
delivered and optimized
more than 21 000 new LTE
sites and upgraded over
18 000 2G/3G sites for
T-Mobile USA. In peak
time over 1 000 sites
were delivered per month,
while keeping the customer
experience on existing
or improved levels.