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Nokia Launches in France the 5G Innov Lab Platform to test and Integrate
Future 5G Use Cases

Nokia announced the launch of the 5G Thanks to Nokia LaaS (Lab as a Service), to validate the technological relevance
Innov Lab platform as part of the France which is based at the Paris-Saclay site, of 26GHz, the emergence of new use
Recovery plan. The Nokia-led platform has companies in the sector of rail, urban and cases and services, and new business
the objective of testing and integrating energy transport and local authorities models integrating new players. Pierre-
5G industrial uses, using an open and will be able to test future use cases in an Gaël Chantereau, President of Nokia in
transversal approach; and brings together operational 5G and private wireless (4.9/LTE France, said: "5G will play a critical role
various entities, including Airbus Secure and 5G) environment. Testing will be based in the transformation of the industry and
Land Communications, Augmented on the deployment of 5G infrastructure verticals and this Nokia-led platform will
Acoustics, Digital Immersion, IMT, SNEF at the Nokia Paris-Saclay campus or at enable the development in France of new
Lab, Nokia Bell Labs, and Paris-Saclay customer sites for each type of industrial use cases, with the support of all partners.
Hardware Accelerator. With a diversity use; and at SNEF group Lab for railways, France has many assets, supported by
of partners, the 5G Innov Lab platform industrial, and mining applications. both historical and new players, and the
will make it possible to better understand 5G experiments in 26GHz band cooperation of these actors is essential to
and anticipate new 5G use cases. The The objective is to coordinate the first accelerate developments and guarantee
open and scalable platform is designed experiments on the 26GHz band as part our competitiveness at the European and
to accommodate new use cases and new of the allocation of these experimental global levels.” The Innov Lab 5G platform
partners. The 5G Innov Lab platform will frequencies by ARCEP and to deploy the will make it possible to demonstrate in real
rely on a 5G private network comprised of 26GHz infrastructure on each concerned conditions the power of 5G for all these
different frequencies (2.6GHz TDD, 26GHz, site. The experiments cover sectors as new use cases and support the work of
and the 3.8 – 4.2GHz band, with three varied as the connected port with the Port other 5G platforms launched by the BPI
major focus areas: of Le Havre; the connected stadium with (Banque Publique d’Investissement) as
Research and Innovation the National Vélodrome; the connected city part of the 5G Call for Projects, including 5G
The work will focus on the future uses of with Paris La Défense; and the connected Open Road, 5G Living Lab, 5G mMTC, and
the "Smart industry" and "Smart mobility". museum with the Cité des Sciences. 5G Maritime Perf platforms.
With the aim of presenting experimental These experiments will make it possible
results, field testing proof of concepts,
and developing advanced prototypes, the
implementation of future use cases will be
based on:
A call for innovation led by the Garage
Nokia Paris-Saclay, with the support of
IncubAlliance and La French Tech Paris-
Saclay
Nokia Bell Labs' robotic services software
platform
Industrial demos with the Paris-Saclay
Hardware Accelerator 4.0 factory, covering
topics such as robotics and predictive
maintenance
Industrial and vertical use cases

Nokia Secures Ten-Year Extension of Orange Poland Contract

Orange Poland has awarded Nokia a ten-year extension to
an existing contract for radio network modernization and
the deployment of 5G infrastructure. The deal, which now
runs until 2036, covers 50% of Orange’s national network,
concentrated on northern Poland. The vendor will supply
equipment from its latest AirScale portfolio, including future
support for 3.5GHz C-band spectrum. As well as rolling out
5G infrastructure, Nokia will also be supporting Orange as it
phases out its 3G services and uses the freed spectrum to
improve 4G connectivity.

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