Nokia unveils 'Future X for industries' strategy and architecture to catalyze productivity and economic growth in the Industry 4.0 era - Seite 3

When combined with richer human-machine interfaces (HMI), these capabilities will deliver intuitive, augmented and precise control of autonomous systems and manifestly more efficient digital operations.

And the demand for such networks is enormous. Some estimates indicate that LTE sites for industrial and commercial uses alone could be more than twice that of existing consumer-oriented wide-area network deployments.

Rich Karpinski Research Director, Voice of the Enterprise - IoT, 451 Research, said: "While industrial enterprises are making solid progress on leveraging technologies such as the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), cloud computing and analytics, until now the communications realm has too often been an afterthought. An overarching framework encompassing business-critical networking capabilities with deep reach and high performance not only complements, but also helps to drive IIoT, edge cloud/multi-cloud and AI, and could provide an essential next step in industry's digital transformation journey."

Nokia for industries strategy

Nokia has made significant investments to support its industrial focus, specifically in emerging technologies including software-defined networking (SDN) for both data center and SD-WAN applications, distributed cloud orchestration, advanced data streaming and analytics (including the recent acquisition of SpaceTime Insight), network automation and private LTE network technologies.

The company has also expanded its effort to address high-growth, high-margin opportunities with a set of enterprise and industry customers needing telco-grade networks. Toward this end we have established a new Enterprise Business Group that consolidates a range of existing, fast-growing activities into one focused organization reporting directly to the President and CEO, under the leadership of Kathrin Buvac, currently Nokia's Chief Strategy Officer.

These strategic moves complement Nokia's track-record supplying 1000+ networks to customers across key industries including transportation, energy, public sector, healthcare and financial services. These activities leverage Nokia's strong market position in key, foundational technologies for mission- and business-critical networks - the company is a leader in wireless and fixed broadband access, IP and optical networking.