Thank you for your question.

Let us first have a view of the future. The era of the digital platform economy has revolutionized businesses, transforming how companies interact, innovate, and operate, stimulating exponential growth in communication networks and related businesses. With new advances in technology evolution in areas like AI, spatial computing and Web3, we expect to see even more acceleration of digital services from now to 2035. Advances in technology such as 5G, extended reality (XR), and digital twin technology have accelerated the digital evolution and created new opportunities that merge the digital, physical, and human worlds. These innovations enable seamless connectivity, smarter automation, and immersive experiences, creating a new world of integrated and transformative interactions. AI is poised to become the key driver of innovation in the coming decade, reshaping industries across the board. From devices to enabling platforms to customer services, AI will drive advancement in both hardware and software development, as well as the discovery and exploration of new materials, unlocking new possibilities in science and technology. Its impact will span every sector, driving unprecedented innovation.

Our Nokia R&D ensures thought and technology leadership in all the key areas including Radio, Core, Fixed, Data Center, IP, Optical, enterprise and private networks. We lead the industry with solutions for enterprise and service providers. For example, we support autonomous networks as our customers’ needs are changing rapidly. To meet their dynamic requirements, we must deliver a zero-wait (instant order fulfilment), zero-touch (automated delivery), and zero-trouble (flawless service) experience. We help to increase the autonomy of the network by anticipating needs, solving problems before they arise, and constantly optimising for peak performance. That's the future Nokia is building with our innovative "sense, think, act" approach.

Another example is a data center network for the AI era. As we know, Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) continue to transform the way industries and businesses work. The market for these technologies is growing fast and will double soon. To unlock the full value of AI and ML applications, we need data center networks that can meet the stringent connectivity requirements of AI workloads while continuing to support traditional application workloads. Nokia’s data center networks solution helps to deliver on new and existing networking requirements, and it helps customers to succeed in two broad areas where AI applies to data center networks: networking for AI workloads and AI for network operations. Further, our data center fabrics enhance connectivity and IP, and optical technologies make it easy to interconnect data centers, clouds, the wide area network (WAN) and the internet.

I hope these examples helped. All the best.

04 December, 2024 05:06

Further,

• R&D is embedded in all the Business Groups for short & term roadmaps. For 5G & 5G-Adv, this is done by R&D of BGs
• For 6G and beyond, for medium & long-term value creation, this job is done by S&T, Bell Labs and Nokia Standards.
• AI is all pervasive and key component of R&D, research & current products and services.

04 December, 2024 09:32