Nokia Cloud Packet Core provides converged access to drive ultra-broadband and IoT service delivery #MWC17
February 06 2017 - 3:01AM
Nokia Cloud Packet Core provides converged access to drive
ultra-broadband and IoT service delivery #MWC17
6 February 2017
- Nokia extends its Cloud Packet Core to address the increasing
connectivity needs in a world where more people and devices are
becoming interconnected
- Supports industry's widest range of access technologies that
can be used separately or combined to improve service quality and
expand footprint
- Built with cloud-native architecture to provide the massive
scalability, performance, flexibility and reliability needed to
deliver broadband, IoT and MTC services, and enable a path to
5G
Espoo, Finland - Nokia announces that its Cloud Packet Core,
a cloud-native converged core, now supports the industry's widest
array of access technologies. Its cloud-native architecture
supports converged broadband, Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine
Type Communications (MTC) service delivery across wireless
licensed, shared and unlicensed spectrum, as well as fixed
access.
In a digital world, where everyone and everything is connected,
the network is under significant new pressure. Broadband, IoT and
MTC lead to a huge increase in devices and people that must be
interconnected, introducing a diverse range of service requirements
and characteristics that operators will need to support, including
any access technology. In addition, the sheer number of devices
places massive scalability demands on the network, and the
applications supported have strict performance and reliability
requirements. Operators must embrace this new environment while
also ensuring the most flexible and efficient use of cloud
resources to deliver this economically.
Innovation in the network core is central to this transformation
as it is the connection hub, and Nokia continues to invest in its
Cloud Packet Core to support this new reality.
Nokia's flexible, multi-access approach enables fixed and
wireless technologies to be used, individually or together, to
ensure the delivery of converged services anchored in a common core
for a seamless service experience. These technologies include
licensed spectrum such as 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G, as well as shared and
unlicensed spectrum, including Wi-Fi, MulteFire and LTE-based CBRS,
and fixed access.
Moving beyond just simple virtualization of existing platforms,
Nokia has architected its Cloud Packet Core from the ground up
using cloud-native architecture concepts including software
disaggregation, functional software elements with 'state-efficient'
processing combined with a common data layer, network slicing,
along with centralized and distributed deployment to achieve
massive scalability, performance, flexibility and reliability.
Nokia's Cloud Packet Core also includes a new rich 3GPP R13
Cellular IoT (CIoT) feature set and new capabilities, such as the
CIoT Serving Gateway Node, to support new service and application
requirements, including narrowband IoT (NB-IoT).
The Cloud Packet Core will create significant broadband business
opportunities and support diverse applications for multiple
segments and verticals, including consumer mobile, residential,
enterprises and governments.
Fast facts:
- Nokia Cloud Packet Core anchors the industry's most extensive
range of standards-based wireless and fixed access technologies,
and supports concurrent service delivery across multiple access
technologies
- Rich 3GPP R13 feature set and new CIoT Serving Gateway Node
capabilities to support applications and services such as
NB-IoT
- Cloud-native architecture delivers greater flexibility in
resource deployment and efficient utilization to drive better
economics
- New pre-integrated and modular Cloud Packet Core solutions
(Cloud Mobility Manager/Cloud Mobile Gateway) expand on existing
Cloud NFV deployment capabilities for rapid deployment and
operational integration, and to engage expanded markets
- Builds on cloud-native investment required today for 4G and
converged networks, facilitates a path to 5G, and has further
innovations to deliver expanded service capabilities, scalability,
agility and network functions
Stéphane Téral, Senior Research Director and Advisor, Mobile
Infrastructure and Carrier Economics, IHS Markit, said: "While
the requirements and use cases for 5G continue to be defined, it's
clear that a new flexible multi-access cloud native packet core
will be needed to support the nearer-term enhanced mobile broadband
and IoT/MTC services and applications. This cloud-native
packet core must provide the scale, capacity, reliability and
flexibility to cost-effectively deliver this diverse set of
services/applications, while providing the foundation for
5G. Nokia clearly understands this transformation with its
Cloud Packet Core, which goes beyond virtualization to a
cloud-native architecture that leverages webscale technologies to
deliver this evolution strategy."
Sri Reddy, head of the IP Routing and Packet Core Business
Unit at Nokia, said: "Broadband evolution to 5G and IoT/MTC
will place a diverse set of service characteristics and
requirements on the network. These services will need to be
concurrently delivered across the widest range of fixed and
wireless technologies to provide a seamless service experience and
support extensive personalization. The Nokia Cloud Packet Core
provides the converged anchor point to make this possible. With its
cloud-native architecture, it has the flexibility, performance,
scalability, reliability and improved operations for organizations
to embrace and profit from mobile broadband, IoT/MTC and coming-5G
opportunities."
The Cloud Packet Core will be in the Nokia booth at Mobile World
Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Feb 27-Mar 2, Hall 3 Stand 3A10.
Key Resources:
- Website: Nokia Cloud Packet Core website
- Image #1: https://resources.nokia.com/asset/200980
- Image #2: https://resources.nokia.com/asset/400001
- Whitepaper: Embracing an Industry Inflection Point with the
Cloud-Native Packet Core
- Whitepaper: Bell Labs Consulting: Gain 60 percent or greater
TCO savings with a dedicated cloud packet core for IoT/MTC
services
- Video: Nokia Cloud Packet Core: Profit from opportunity, evolve
with confidence
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