NTT is to resell Nokia’s private cellular and edge cloud system to a total addressable market of 3.2 million enterprises in Thailand – in line with the country’s Thailand 5.0 scheme
Global system integrator NTT is to resell Nokia’s private cellular and edge compute systems to a local enterprise market of around 3.2 million firms in Thailand. Nokia claims that the partnership will drive “measurable increases” in the country’s Industry 4.0 efforts around areas like productivity, operational efficiency and worker safety, as well as “revolutionize” critical applications and use cases across a variety of industry sectors.
Nokia is providing its Digital Automation Cloud (DAC) private LTE/5G system and Mission Critical Industrial Edge (MXIE) compute platform into the bargain. It is the first official tie-up between the firms on private 5G and Industry 4.0. Such solutions, said Nokia, will enable advances applications like digital twins, video analytics and machine vision with real-time video and IoT streams, as well as pre-integrated industrial devices and a catalog of applications.
“We are pleased to partner with NTT and deploy our leading-edge 5G private wireless networking solutions across Thailand. Digital transformation is increasingly seen by industry as a means to achieve business growth and sustainability goals. This agreement, spanning Nokia wireless, software, and infrastructure, is designed to accelerate the implementation and adoption of Industry 4.0 applications and use cases across Thai enterprises,” said Ajay Sharma, head of Thailand and Cambodia at Nokia, in a press release.
Raghav Sahgal, president of cloud and network services at Nokia, further commented that the collaboration supports the Thai Government’s agenda around digital transformation, which has certainly been active. In May, for example, the Digital Council of Thailand (DCT) recommended that the government establish a “National Board of Digital Transformation” to help direct Thailand towards the “Thailand 5.0 era.”
