Nokia Announces Partnership with Brazil’s CPQD to Jointly Develop 5G O-RAN Solutions

Finnish vendor Nokia announced a partnership with Brazil's Telecommunications Research and Development Center (CPQD), which is a independent government-subsidiary examination body, to mutually create applications and arrangements dependent on the Open RAN-compliant near-real-time RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC).

In a release, Nokia said that the partnership will zero in on 5G use cases in participation with Nokia's Brazilian mobile operator customers. Those utilization cases will incorporate fixed wireless access (FWA), smart cities, IoT for Industry 4.0, and basic networks, which will be customized for the Brazilian market.

Nokia additionally said that the partnership will use Nokia's Service Enablement Platform (SEP), which joins the capacities of the RIC and multi-access edge processing (MEC). The joint effort is intended to make creative use cases that use Nokia's advanced AirFrame open edge worker arrangement and will permit CPQD to investigate the potential of 5G to convey an upgraded network performance  with lower energy utilization, greater reliability, and security, the vendor added.

“This is an important collaboration that will help to shape the future of 5G networks in Brazil,” said Frederico Nava, director of solutions and consulting at CPQD. “We look forward to a fruitful and successful partnership with Nokia and look forward to introducing a range of innovative 5G-based use cases to the market.”