14 DAY TRIAL // Nokia has recently announced that it teamed up with Orange Group in order to develop services to allow industries and consumers to “take advantage of the unprecedented efficiencies and business models made possible by 5G.”
5G networks are said to deliver improved data speeds, network latency and agility, together with the ability to enable new services like network slicing. Nokia believes that this new and improved network would allow carriers to support more customers and potentially billions of connected IoT devices.
Carriers would be able to offer increased quality of services and lay the foundation for smart cities, offices, remote healthcare, and other services. Nokia intends to work with Orange on making the transition from 4G to 5G network connectivity and build innovation programs that use 5G services.
5G networks will allow dynamic network slicing
Orange will use Nokia’s technology to work on ultra-broadband leveraging new frequency bands, cloud RAN and massive MIMO, IoT, end-to-end network slicing techniques and energy efficiency techniques.
Dynamic network slicing allows carriers to configure their networks for various use cases and requirements, and run them simultaneously on the same equipment. There are many high-bandwidth applications for such services, like 8K video or VR gaming.
Nokia and Orange are preparing to build on the current 4.5G networks and soon-to-be-launched 4.9G networks, which offer gigabit per second peak speeds. Nokia states that there already are 90 customers who have deployed 4.5G services and this year 4.5G Pro will offer ten times the speed of initial 4G networks and a clear upgrade path to 4.9G services and then 5G.
4.9G networks will offer several gigabits per second and latencies below 10ms. The application of 5G networks will go beyond mobile phones and enter a plenitude of industries, including smart clothes, smartwatches, augmented shipping, gaming, connected homes, logistics and many more. Just recently, Nokia announced a new predictive service called MIKA for engineers and enterprises.