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the market size of the logistics sector in by up to 60 percent versus equivalent Wi- digitalization applications supporting key
Europe is estimated to be 1.05 trillion USD Fi deployments, as well as OPEX costs. segment use cases. Stephan Litjens, Vice
in 2024, and it is expected to reach 1.32 In addition, the solutions’ technology President of Enterprise Solutions at Nokia,
trillion USD by 2029 growing at a CAGR helps optimize goods-in/goods-out and said: “As digital transformation takes hold
of 4.69 percent during the forecast period any goods movements with seamless within a wider range of industries where
from 2024 to 2029. However, the logistics handover of AGVs between access security, scalability, productivity and
market in Europe is projected to lose 1.03 points, latency reduction and can support efficiency are much needed, Nokia DAC
billion USD of revenue in 2024 due to failing many other use cases such as creating PW Compact offers the capabilities of our
connectivity, caused by using legacy Wi-Fi machines digital twins, feeding real time mission-critical industrial edge (MXIE),
networks that are not fit for purpose for data to workers and accurate real-time simplifies Industrial Digitalization of small-
the high levels for automation and mobility asset tracking throughout the supply chain. medium size businesses and will help to
in warehouses. Nokia DAC PW Compact The solution can also be enhanced with accommodate the growing and changing
contributes to the digital transformation of MXIE capabilities to run on this on-prem needs of the logistics market in Europe.”
industries by reducing energy consumption edge application platform, many industrial

Nokia Breaks the Mould with mmWave for FWA

mmWave has already been successful at
delivering wireless capacity in hot zones
and high-traffic urban environments where
limited range and signal attenuation don’t
present a significant problem. This signal
attenuation has led to a long-standing belief
that mmWave is only for urban areas and
it can’t really be used in other scenarios.
Not so, says Nokia. By advocating the
deployment of mmWave as a capacity
overlay to mid-band spectrum, Nokia says
it can add much needed capacity for FWA
subscribers that are within mmWave range
from the base station, while freeing up the
mid-bands for mobile broadband and more
distant FWA subscribers. The operator
study mentioned earlier found that 50 per
Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) is an have been restored to the operator just by cent of suburban FWA subscribers would
attractive play for many operators, and having the CPE device correctly positioned, be able to connect to and benefit from
Nokia believes its potential can be further either indoors or using an outdoors device, a mmWave capacity overlay. Nokia is
enhanced with the arrival of 5G FWA for optimal performance. Using outdoor busting the myths around FWA mmWave
solutions using higher millimeter wave antennas rather than indoor CPE at the with their advances in antenna technology
(mmWave) spectrum. 5G mid-band FWA cell edge could achieve a 62 per cent gain and device intelligence. These advances
already supports a number of different in network capacity, says the company. As mean that mmWave FWA can be deployed
deployment scenarios. Fixed broadband FWA users consume around 20 times more in non-line-of-sight locations (NLOS) and
operators are using it to complement fiber data than mobile uses, managing capacity over far greater distances, says Nokia. The
deployments, plugging coverage gaps is a key consideration in FWA deployments, company has announced a new outdoor
and quickly building out their footprint to to ensure neither FWA nor mobile services mmWave device, the FastMile 5Gmm
increase market share. Mobile operators are are compromised, and to protect an Receiver that does exactly this. A 27dBi
taking advantage of its fast time-to-market operator’s valuable investment in spectrum. gain antenna overcomes propagation
and low start-up costs to compete with Conserving radio resources from the start loss and weak signals. It also scans
fixed-fiber services. Like all technologies, is far more efficient than later investments the environment in 360 degrees, using
FWA comes with its challenges. In a recent to upgrade the network or change devices advanced analytics to create a fingerprint
operator study, Nokia found that mid-band to regain that lost capacity. Employing of the radio environment, and directing
FWA deployments are leaving 19 per cent of 5G mmWave FWA at and above 24 GHz, itself to the best signal that it receives.
subscribers with low signal levels, resulting with its resulting benefits in capacity and This means it can connect to signals from
in wasted network capacity. Around 29 performance, is becoming increasingly any direction, whether they are direct or
per cent of capacity in such cases could attractive for operators, says Nokia. reflected.

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