A suite of cloud gaming and alternate realities follows
Nokia and Telia Finland claim they have built the world’s first commercial 5G standalone (SA) network with network slicing for Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) services. Telia is introducing 5G SA into its 5G FWA home broadband services and as a result it has a rich smörgåsbord of broadband deals to offer customers in Finland. The network slicing means that each deal comes with guaranteed levels of service. The deployment is underway, said Nokia, in a release.
Nokia will upgrade Telia’s entire 5G Radio Access Network infrastructure with 5G slicing using equipment from its AirScale portfolio of radio and baseband products. The 5G AirScale network portfolio makes the transition to 5G standalone networks easy for operators, claims Nokia and in no time customers are using cloud gaming and extended reality. It should also give the operator a self-managing network without undermining any service level agreements.
Telia said it can balance the traffic between FWA and mobile users more adeptly and categorise applications by the slices they need, which helps them differentiate the levels of speed, latency, and data quality each customers an expect from their broadband deals with guaranteed service levels based on their needs. Nokia 5G FWA gateways and Carrier Aggregation technology are included in the deals offered to customers. Nokia said this will help Telia improve its coverage for each region.
“We were one of the first operators in Europe to introduce a 5G standalone and Core network and with the encouraging feedback of our customers, we are now deploying this new technology commercially,” said Jari Collin, CTO at Telia.
Telia’s networks are home to some of 5G’s most creative applications and we can expect many more to be built on its 5G network. “We want to keep Finland at the forefront of its development as this technology matures,” said Collin.
The introduction of 5G Fixed Wireless Access services will deliver ‘super-fast’ home broadband services to Telia’s customers in Finland, said Ari Kynäslahti, Head of Strategy and Technology at Nokia Mobile Networks.