They plan to provide developers anywhere in the world with software tools to accelerate the adoption of the APIs, starting with healthcare use cases
The Finnish equipment vendor has announced the Nokia Network as Code platform with developer portal will run on Google Cloud. The aim is to “[enrich] the developer experience via Google Cloud data and generative AI solutions and capabilities, including Vertex AI and Gemini 1.5 Pro”.
The companies are to promote specific use cases to the Google Cloud developer community, starting with healthcare. Google Cloud stresses it developers cover “all major industries and geographies”.
The cloudco also says that its developer community will gain access to standardised 5G network capabilities around the world, exposed through Nokia’s Network as Code platform with developer portal, giving them the technical tools required to quickly create new applications for their customers.
Network as Code
Nokia states that its platform provides developers with software development kits (SDKs); network API documentation, a sandbox in which to create software code and simulate its deployment for particular use case and testing. It also provides code snippets that can be included in new applications to speed the process.
The platform shares revenue between developers, operators and Nokia. Since its launch in September 2023, the vendor has signed collaboration agreements with 13 network operators and ecosystem partners in Europe, North and South America.
Ankur Jain, VP, Google Distributed Cloud and Global Telco Industry at Google Cloud, noted, “Through this important collaboration with Nokia, we are enabling our global developer community to tap into the greenfield opportunity that 5G networks provide. Our developer community is a strong innovation driver globally, and we believe the telecom space offers significant value creation opportunities through new applications.”
Raghav Sahgal, President of Cloud and Network Services at Nokia, added, “We are excited to expand our collaboration with Google Cloud, enabling thousands of Google Cloud developers to tap into our network capabilities so that they can create value for their customers faster.”