Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 54 | Page 19

TRENDING

NOKIA AND ORANGE STRIKE GLOBAL 5G NETWORK OPTIMISATION DEAL

Nokia has announced it will expand its Self-Organising Networks ( SON ) technology across 5G networks operated by telecommunications carrier , Orange . The deal will cover all of Orange ’ s markets and will commence with France and Spain .

Nokia has announced it will expand its Self- Organising Networks ( SON ) technology across 5G networks operated by one of the world ’ s leading telecommunications carriers , Orange . The deal will cover all of Orange ’ s markets , starting with France and Spain . Nokia continues to offer widespread support for 2G , 3G and 4G spanning more than one million Orange radio cells in Europe , Middle East and Africa .

Nokia SON operates on top of any vendor ’ s radio technology , enabling Orange to optimise its live commercial networks regardless of who built them . As a key tool in the Nokia network management and optimisation portfolio , SON offers Orange the power to automate radio network configuration and optimisation processes , as well as improve network performance and efficiency to support the increasing demands of 5G .
5G deployments and rollouts look much simpler on paper than they do in the real world .
Nokia SON lets Orange automate operations to realise the full potential of their existing 2G , 3G and 4G networks while also supporting the progressive deployment of 5G . Providing a centralised SON platform , it automates operations across multiple technologies , eliminating complexities from the multi-vendor and multi-layered networks naturally found across global operators . The extreme automation and Artificial Intelligence framework built into Nokia SON helps Orange affiliates provide better network quality with greater reliability and speed to their customers .
www . intelligentcio . com INTELLIGENTCIO AFRICA 19