Nokia today announced that China Unicom has selected it to support its 5G SA core network in China, which is the expansion of their current 4G network cooperation.
Nokia said it has secured approximately 10 percent of the 5G core network construction for China Unicom.
The core network performs a variety of functions, including establishing connectivity, managing bandwidth, expanding and protecting the network, while the 5G core network can also Open network to support new, software-based use cases such as network slicing.
The Nokia Cloud core product selected by China Unicom provides unified data management, session management and user-facing capabilities ( (UPF), complemented by the Data Refinery and NetAct network management systems which will be deployed on Nokia's CloudBand Application Manager.
With the advent of 5G and the evolution to cloud architectures, unified data management is a key feature to efficiently and cost effectively manage your data. Manage all user data and services.
The session management function is a fundamental element of the 5G Served Architecture (SBA) and is responsible for interacting with the decoupled user-facing functions. and user session management.
The user plane capabilities allow packet processing and traffic aggregation closer to the edge of the network, thus reducing costs while The deal also includes Nokia's Cloud Packet Core, which provides the basis for packet processing for service-based architectures (SBAs) by improving bandwidth efficiency.
The deal also includes products in Nokia Cloud Packet Core, including Nokia Cloud Mobile Gateway.
In addition to supporting 4G service gateways and packet data network gateways in China Unicom's network, the product also provides 5G stand-alone and 5G data services. Session management and user-facing functions.
Currently, Nokia has a market share of about 17% in China Unicom's rapidly expanding VoLTE network. It offers products such as the vIMS cloud platform.
The new deal will further strengthen the long-standing partnership between China Unicom and Nokia.
Nokia has previously provided key support for the successful establishment of China Unicom's 4G network.
Nokia today said it will continue to support the launch and operation of China Unicom's 5G network.
