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Microsoft Calls For New Wave Of Privacy Protection

Microsoft President Brad Smith outlined decade include a combination of traditional are the first generation in the history of
the importance for technology companies computing with emerging quantum efforts, humanity who will empower machines to
in delivering privacy protections to address and a rise in the number of data centers make decisions…If we get it wrong, every
new challenges raised by the digital era. along with innovations in how data is generation that follows us will pay a price”,
He said with a new wave of technology stored and processed. “We are going to he said. Smith appealed for technology
there must also be a “new wave of privacy see 5G become 6G and computing will companies to work more closely with
protection, security protection”, along with become ambient, it will be in every device, governments to address new challenges
measures to safeguard ethics. “We need to every corner and every part of our homes”. around accessibility and environmental
recognize as technology moves forward, In a keynote, Smith addressed concerns sustainability and show the industry is
we need to stop leaving people behind”. around AI, predicting the conversation “committed to use technology to solve the
“Today cloud computing is ubiquitous would move on to address more general world’s problems”. He cited the use of AI to
all around the world. It reduced the cost deployments of the technology. He noted gather and analyze data to prevent illegal
of access to technology, it has led to an “any tool can also become a weapon”, fishing as an example. Smith also called for
explosion in data. We will start the next including AI, therefore, companies need to the reach of technology to be broadened,
decade with 25-times as much digital data “think as never before about what it means noting that more than 20 million Americans
as we had in 2010”, Smith predicted. Other in terms of broader societies”. “We need still lack broadband access.
trends the executive expects over the next to ask what computers shouldn’t do. We

Nokia to Transform Finland’s Nationwide Smart
Grid for Better Support of Renewable Energy

Nokia announced that it has been selected by latency and jitter. This project is in partnership with NetNordic, a longstanding
Fingrid, Finland’s national transmission system Nokia channel partner. Kari Suominen, head of ICT for Fingrid, said: “We are
operator, to build an IP/MPLS network to support committed to realizing the potential of renewable energy generation and are
the digital transformation of its national electrical embarking on an ambitious transformation of our national grid to make it
grid. Fingrid will use the network to operate 120 smarter and more flexible. Nokia’s IP/MPLS solution plays an important role in
high-voltage substations and control 14,600km the digital transformation of our distributed energy resource management by
of power transmission across the country. The providing us with a reliable, secure and agile communications system that has
new smart grid is needed to manage the growing the potential to support all of our power management needs.” Kamal Ballout,
adoption of variable distributed energy resources, Global Vice President of Energy Practice for Nokia, said: “Fingrid joins our long
such as wind, solar and micro-generation using list of transmission system operator customers who are modernizing their
bioenergy. As one of Europe’s leading users of networks and transforming their businesses by embracing more distributed and
renewable energy, Finland’s power transmission renewable energy sources. Through continued investment in our IP portfolio,
network is constantly being upgraded in order to we are able to meet the specific requirements of today’s energy market, helping
meet the changing character of energy generation. them evolve their infrastructure for a more sustainable future.”
Solar and wind generation, for example, require a
much more agile and automated grid to manage
the variable, two-way power flows by automatically
ramping and balancing inputs and outputs.
This calls for new distributed energy resource
management systems, which need a highly reliable,
secure communications system to monitor, control,
coordinate, and manage distributed energy assets.
Nokia’s mission-critical IP/MPLS network solution
has been deployed by transmission system
operators worldwide — supporting these new grid
applications along with other critical ones, such as
supervisory control and data acquisition systems
(SCADA), teleprotection and current differential
systems, which demand stringent control of

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