SHANGHAI – The acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent will give Nokia Networks a stronger position in the wireless business, but also will enable the Finnish networking powerhouse to have a stronger position in North America, said Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri during a keynote presentation at the Mobile World Congress Shanghai.
“When you look at the deal, you rarely get this much complementary synergy,” Suri said.
The executive also said the Alcatel-Lucent deal will give Nokia fixed and IP router assets it doesn’t currently have and make it an end-to-end provider.
Suri also said the most significant impact of 5G and the “Internet of Things” will be the way they transform vertical industries, adding that IoT will eliminate many inefficiencies that currently exist across vertical industries.
During Mobile Word Congress Shanghai, Nokia Networks launched its IoT connectivity solution for LTE core and radio networks which makes existing LTE networks IoT ready. According to the company, by following an easy three-step approach, operators can migrate their LTE core network to IoT overlay.
“While IoT represents a major growth opportunity for operators, they need to prepare their networks well. Nokia’s IoT connectivity solution is a key building block required to efficiently manage the related M2M traffic,” Michael Clever, Nokia Networks’ head of mobile broadband core cluster, said.
Also, during the event, Nokia Networks and Shanghai Mobile, a subsidiary of China Mobile, have demonstrated the world’s first TD-LTE-Advanced small cell carrier aggregation in a live operator network. To demonstrate the new technology, Shanghai Mobile used the Nokia Flexi Zone Base Station connected to the operator’s network to achieve 220 Mbps peak downlink data transmission rates.
