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Business overview
19NOKIA IN 2015
Diversifying by providing network performance
and exibility for large-scale enterprises
Leveraging new business opportunities created
through the Internet of Things
The increasing digitization
ofenterprises oers growth
opportunities beyond a
corecustomer base of
telecommunications operators.
Weare focused on serving the
needs of webscale players,
technology-centric fortune
500enterprises and public
sectorbodies that require high
performance networks and seek to
take advantage of the convergence
of telecommunications and IT
technologies. More specically, we
are building on the SDN expertise
of Nuage Networks tofurther
enterthe Enterprise Datacenter
business, leveraging our IP and
optical assets to increase our
presence in key industry verticals,
such as utilities and transport.
Our strategy is guided by our
vision of the Programmable World
—a world in which connectivity will
greatly expand and link people
and billions of physical objects.
Inthis world automated analytics
will both improve and simplify
people’s lives, reduce costs and
optimize business operations. For
instance, we envision widespread
use of autonomous driving cars
that oer the promise of reducing
road fatalities signicantly and
optimizing trac ows; smart
monitoring systems for utilities,
decreasing the waste of precious
resources such as water and
energy; smart cities, optimizing
trac ows and energy
consumption; digital health
applications to oer patients
remote monitoring and
preventive care benets;
increasing the well-being of
humans; trac management
systems for drones to increase
public safety and drone reliability;
public safety applications for
positioning and augmented
reality, to improve rst
responders’ work processes and,
thus, increase the chances of
survival of accident victims and
the safety of the rst responders;
and virtual reality, enabling
unprecedented experiences.
We are also deploying our
expertise in LTE to capture a
greater share of mobile networks
in the public safety market, and
oering our software platforms
toenterprise customers.
The IoT plays a pivotal role in
translating our vision into a reality.
It creates new opportunity in
allcustomer and technology
segments, and we have a two-fold
strategy to capitalize on these
opportunities. Firstly, we are
designing, building, and
optimizing network infrastructure
to meet the increased and diverse
performance requirements that
will enable the IoT: scalable,
exible, Cloud-based, ecient,
and secure. To meet the
requirements of IoT, mass
communication and low-latency
communication are critical.
Hence, we are creating a strong
portfolio of IoT connectivity
solutions that adapt to specic
customer needs, from LTE-based
mobile edge computing, to
narrowband IoT, LTE-M, and 5G.
Moreover, we provide solutions
for IoT core, security and
platforms, to enable a broad array
of uses. Secondly, we are building
an ecosystem of products and
services that will enable the
specic use cases in the areas of
connected mobility, public safety,
digital health, connected industry,
and smart cities.
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