ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Corp. announced several new offerings and product updates, wares it plans to show off during its upcoming Mobility Conference in Barcelona, Spain.
First up, the company launched version 2.0 of its push-to-talk solution. The company said the product complies with the Open Mobile Alliance PTT standard, and supports interoperability with OMA-compliant phones and networks from other vendors. Nokia also introduced its new Presence Solution, which the company said includes improved support for OMA PTT products and the Session Initiation Protocol/SIMPLE protocol. Further, Nokia launched its new Mobilizing Wireless Data product, which the company said supports data service continuity between cellular, wireless and wireline networks.
“Nokia is advancing strongly in the convergence space,” said Mika Vehvilainen, senior vice president and general manager of Networks at Nokia. “Nokia’s portfolio of core network products and solutions offers operators one of the best fixed-mobile convergence propositions in the business. With a firm foundation in mobility and IP-based solutions as well as new offerings for Voice over IP and Unlicensed Mobile Access, our Unified Core Network is an ideal enabler for FMC.”
On the base station side, Nokia released its new Flexi W-CDMA Base Station. The company said the product supports a distributed base station architecture that can help operators cut costs.
“We believe that this open, modular base station offers all our customers a new and easier way to build 3G networks, now and in the future,” said Robin Lindahl, vice president of Radio Networks at Nokia. “The small size and flexibility of the Nokia Flexi W-CDMA Base Station will make a real difference to our customers’ operating and capital expenditure since existing and new sites can be used in a very efficient way. In addition, this new platform will make it easy for operators to deploy new radio technologies.”
Finally, Nokia introduced three new tools for operators: Service Level Management, Integrated Provisioning and Unified Device Management. The offerings are part of Nokia’s new Services business group, which the company said represents more than 30 percent of its infrastructure revenues.
