Every country has rightly celebrated its frontline healthcare staff over the past year amid the coronavirus pandemic, regardless of the place or time. Another frontline community, those entities, and companies who kept everyone linked when they needed it the most have also been equally important. Telecommunications companies will be examined for delivering the technologies that are enabling people to work, learn, and live even amid a global pandemic throughout this article.
The following is a list in alphabetical order –
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise is a company that does not need much of an introduction. The business is a reliable solutions company with over 100 years of experience which has thrived through continuous innovation.
“We represent 830,000 clients, and our creativity has been recognized with various awards and accolades from the industry. For instance, Frost & Sullivan’s 2020 Communications Technology System as a Service Enabling Technology Leadership Award; and inclusion in Gartner’s UCaaS Magic Quadrant 2020 as a Niche Player, focused primarily on a single community or sector,” – says Gert Jonk, senior vice president of EMEA at Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise.
The company’s solutions are available “off-the-shelf” or can be personalized for particular projects’ needs, and include cloud-based, on-premises, and hybrid solutions.
The healthcare, government, and educational sector are some of the most interesting projects Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise is working on right now. The business is collaborating with the East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, the Scottish Government, and Loughborough University in the United Kingdom, for instance.
Alcatel-Lucent Organization will be laser-focused over the next year on ensuring that companies will continue to operate regardless of what lies ahead. “While the current crisis is extremely difficult for all of us, it has demonstrated the vital value of technology.
It is one of the primary reasons why companies can produce sales, attract staff, and continue to operate in these challenging market conditions. Whatever the state of the market, our technology will help businesses expand.
“You can rely on Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise to continue to accomplish the critical mission of assisting our customers with their information technology in 2023.”
Enea Openwave
Some of the world’s leading operators use Enea Openwave’s 5G network and video traffic management strategies.
“We’re right in the middle of the 5G Core. “None of the use cases for additional revenues from 5G would operate unless subscriber data and all other forms of data are properly managed,” – says Enea’s Chief Customer Officer, Indranil Chatterjee.
He also said, “We have the lead in 5G results, and our competitors may find it difficult to catch up. Aside from that, we hold the lead in traffic management, with our technology being used to handle 5G network traffic by 8 out of 10 global mobile operator groups.”
Operators want to stop vendor lock-in as they go forward, so they’re looking at further options like OpenRAN.
Enea recently won two contracts with tier-one operators, according to Chatterjee, to replace “a big vendor” that several companies are replacing “due to political sensitivities” (no prizes unfortunately for guessing the vendor.)
The pattern is expected to continue through 2023 and beyond, according to the corporation. Enea also predicts that OTTs will implement new encryption protocols this year, even before specifications are settled upon.
“While these protocols have been banned in China and Russia, we expect this new encryption to become standard later this year, and operators can count on us to solve this challenge in 2023.”
This year, Enea Openwave aims to push the limits of congestion management by concentrating on individual user sessions. The company will also release the first virtual schema to assist operators in rapidly deploying IoT and connected networks so they can start profiting from 5G.
Ericsson
Ericsson, the largest non-Chinese telecoms vendor by market share, continues to offer innovative technologies nearly a century and a half after its establishment. “Our investment in research and development has been crucial in enabling the most important developments in mobile technology around the world, and we now have the world’s largest cellular patent portfolio.
“Our hardware works with all third-party equipment, and we have more 5G devices running on our equipment than any other vendor,” – says Bjorn Odenhammar, Ericsson UK and Ireland’s CTO of Networks and Managed Services.
Ericsson is the only vendor working on 5G rollouts in the UK with all four major operators, demonstrating the confidence the company has won over its more than 120-year history in the region. Ericsson is currently working on a project in Essex with Vodafone that is especially interesting.
At one of Ford’s community places, the partners are attempting to establish the UK’s first 5G-connected automotive center. “Not only for Ford but for the entire world, this is a crucial project. With the world moving toward electric cars, the UK’s long-term car production future depends on rapidly scaling up battery technology shortly. “5G has the potential to improve plant operations by reducing delays, improving reliability, and speeding up production capabilities.
The UK Government has provided £2 million for this collaboration with Vodafone and Ford, which will inspire transformation initiatives around the automotive industry.” Ericsson will continue to help 5G rollouts this year to assist economies in recovering from the pandemic.
By 2024, Ericsson plans to deploy 5G across more than 20,000 network sites in the United Kingdom alone. “We also want to draw on our partnerships with Ford, Bosch, and the Digital Catapult to assist companies in finding use cases that can have a disruptive effect on both businesses and society.
According to the reports, 5G-enabled manufacturing, building, and agriculture could generate nearly £15 billion in revenue for the UK economy.” Ericsson would also contribute to lowering the carbon footprint. The latest 5G RAN systems from the company promise a 15-20% reduction in energy usage.
Huawei
There’s no way around the fact that Huawei has had a particularly challenging few years, with the company facing bans in many countries and a pending fraud lawsuit against its CFO.
If the accusations against the firm are real or the product of a tense political climate, the Chinese telecoms behemoth refuses to be dismantled and continues to innovate. Including its cost-effective and ground-breaking equipment, Huawei represents the dominant vendor by market share. Despite the challenges it faces, the organization continued to raise earnings and sales in 2020.
Henk Koopmans, Huawei UK’s CEO of R&D, tells Telecoms that, “every year, 10% of our global sales revenue is reinvested back into research and innovation to guarantee we continue to evolve and lead the way in building a world for the better.”
He also said, “Over the last two decades, Huawei UK has contributed to the advancement of the country’s digital infrastructure and economic growth. This involves several cutting-edge research and development facilities as well as collaborations with universities around the globe, which is a major part of what sets us apart.
Huawei recently collaborated with the Manchester Tech Fund to offer over £60,000 in networking and computing equipment to five schools in Greater Manchester, helping some of the students most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. One of COVID-19’s many tragedies is the effect it is taking on schoolchildren. We recently commissioned research that showed that one-fourth of UK parents believe their children’s ability to complete lessons or schoolwork has been harmed by a poor-quality internet connection.
This year, Huawei plans to use its technologies and experience to help solve some of the world’s most important problems and open up new opportunities in a variety of industries.
As we recover from the pandemic, more sectors will turn to technology for assistance in addressing pressing concerns such as climate change and sustainable growth. Huawei will continue to play an important role in industrial transitions in a variety of industries, including healthcare and manufacturing.”
Nokia
Every day, it appears that a press release from Nokia lands in Telecoms’ inbox. Every year, the company produces cutting-edge technologies, especially through its storied Bell Labs subsidiary.
Bell Labs has won nine Nobel Prizes (but who’s counting?) for their work. Radio astronomy, the transistor, the laser, the photovoltaic cell, the claimed device (CCD), knowledge theory, the Unix user interface, and the programming languages B, C, C++, S, SNOBOL, AWK, AMPL, and others are all credited to its researchers.
Nokia Bell Labs partnered with Technische Universität Berlin, Deutsche Telekom T-Labs, and the Technical University of Munich in 2016 to establish constellation forming, a pioneering new modulation technique that increased transmission ability and spectral efficiency to achieve a data rate of one terabit per second.
Everybody has to wait and see what Nokia has in store for everyone in 2023, but early indications suggest the company will continue to deliver on its promise of innovation.
Nokia has made the following announcements recently.
- In collaboration with the University of Technology Sydney, a 5G Innovation Lab has been created.
- In Brazil, an Industry 4.0 initiative is being implemented with the help of a private 5G standalone network.
- In Kyushu, Japan, the first local 5G private wireless network (along with a partnership with the Kyushu Institute of Technology for the first industry-academic collaboration in Japan for a local 5G university campus environment);
- Two new 5G certifications and training are now available.
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