Yutong Bus uses Nokia Siemens Networks’ telematics applications

Based on cost efficient Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model

Nokia Siemens Networks has signed a contract with Yutong Bus company Ltd, to provide a machine to machine (M2M) service platform and develop various telematics applications. Telematics applications enable exclusive services such as emergency response, fleet management and remote diagnostics for Yutong buses leading to transport services.

The telematics applications aim to provide a number of benefits via software as a service (SaaS) business model. For example, one of the applications aims to allow Yutong Bus monitoring center to analyze vehicles remotely and subsequently arrange for a mechanic to repair the vehicle, automatically providing the correct replacement parts. A further application will conduct remote analysis of vehicle data to proactively detect and fix issues before they impact bus efficiency or performance. Telematics will also enable automatic emergency response, allowing the driver to call for help with the single push of a button inside the vehicle, in case of an emergency. As a result, customer service center can be alerted with GPS coordinates and emergency services can automatically be dispatched.

For fleet management, telematics applications can allow service centers to track the routes taken by each bus and optimize them. In addition, Nokia Siemens Networks’ telematics SaaS also aims to improve Yutong’s navigation system. In the new, assisted navigation service, customer service representatives can feed destinations remotely into buses and help to avoid congestion or road closures, enabling a smooth and more convenient journey.

All these applications will be built on Nokia Siemens Networks’ M2M service management platform. The company will also offer its consulting and system integration services.

"While the automobile industry has a lot to gain from the adoption of telematics, the high investment in hardware infrastructure and software licenses have so far been a big deterrent,” said Wang Shengjun, chief information officer, Yutong Bus. “The telematics applications via a service model are ideal for keeping initial investments and risks low while at the same time offering us an opportunity to greatly improve customer experience. The applications that Nokia Siemens Networks is developing for us will go a long way in helping us to increase our production and enter new segments such as trucking.".

"This is a breakthrough deal since it marks our entry into a very promising market segment of M2M,” added Markus Borchert, head of customer operations of the Greater China region at Nokia Siemens Networks. “It highlights our capabilities in offering a comprehensive M2M solution suite for the automotive industry coupled with opening up new, potential opportunities in the enterprise segment."

About Yutong Bus Co. Ltd.

Zhengzhou Yutong Group Co. LTD. (Referred to as "Yutong Group ") is Global largest complete bus manufacturer based in Zhengzhou, Henan Province. In 2010, Yutong keeps its number one place in market shares of the industry. With a brand value of 8.542 billion, Yutong secured its number one position in China’s bus industry 7 years in a row in 2010. Yutong, the first listed company in China’s bus industry, was listed on Shanghai Stock Exchange in 1997. For more information, please visit http://www.yutong.com/.

About Nokia Siemens Networks

Nokia Siemens Networks is a leading global enabler of telecommunications services. With its focus on innovation and sustainability, the company provides a complete portfolio of mobile, fixed and converged network technology, as well as professional services including consultancy and systems integration, deployment, maintenance and managed services. It is one of the largest telecommunications hardware, software and professional services companies in the world. Operating in 150 countries, its headquarters are in Espoo, Finland. www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com

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Improvements in Vip customer care

Nokia Siemens Networks’ Customer Care Automation rapidly resolves customer complaints

Vipnet, Croatia’s leading operator, is using Nokia Siemens Networks’ Customer Care Automation* software to provide its service agents with the information required to resolve customer issues instantly. Service agents are able to find the cause of a service problem and solve it without involving further technical specialists. This instant problem solving boosts customer experience while improving operational efficiency for the operator.

"The growing number of service platforms required for an expanding mobile subscriber base can make monitoring more difficult, compromising the ability of customer care to resolve complaints quickly,” said Dean Kosty, Head of Vipnet Network Management department. “Nokia Siemens Networks’ Customer Care Automation has helped us to improve the speed and efficiency of our customer care team, enhancing our customers’ experience."

"Our solution helps resolve most customer problems on the first call, minimizing the need to escalate issues to more experienced and costly technical support teams,” said Dietmar Appeltauer, head of central-east Europe sales for Nokia Siemens Networks. “It helps Vipnet improve end-user service quality while controlling operational expenditure."

Nokia Siemens Networks’ Customer Care Automation features an easy graphical user interface (GUI) that demands no previous technical knowledge from Vipnet’s customer care agents. The software takes data in real time, including customer profile and traffic data, from multiple sources across multivendor networks and automatically detects any inconsistencies or problematic configurations. It displays results to customer care agents in simple terms and provides one-click resolutions, helping staff resolve customer issues instantly. This reduces the number of calls which need to be forwarded to teams of technical experts, reducing the overall time spent in complaint handling and improving customer experience.

About Vipnet

Vipnet is the first private GSM operator in Croatia since July 1999. With its arrival to the Croatian telecommunications market, Vipnet introduced competition within mobile telephony in Croatia. Due to its great success in comparison to the market monopolist then, Vipnet is known for the best market entrance of the second GSM operator in Europe ever.

Vipnet is also recognized as the leading innovator on the Croatian market, constantly developing new technologies and being the first one to introduce them on the market. Vipnet is the first company in Croatia to introduce a Customer Service, available to customers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Vipnet is the first operator on the Croatian market which began introducing HSPA+ technology for data transfer and Dual Carrier technology with 42 Mbps speeds. Today Vipnet offers extremely fast data transmission via new generation technology and is the market leader by number of wireless broadband customers. In October 2010 Vipnet performed successful test of 4G LTE technology in live network and this year they introduced LTE technology that runs on 800 MHz in live network, and which will provide Vip customers in lower data coverage zones same quality of surfing and much higher data transmission speeds, equal to those in urban cities. Vipnet is 100 percent owned by Telekom Austria Group.

About Nokia Siemens Networks

Nokia Siemens Networks is a leading global enabler of telecommunications services. With its focus on innovation and sustainability, the company provides a complete portfolio of mobile, fixed and converged network technology, as well as professional services including consultancy and systems integration, deployment, maintenance and managed services. It is one of the largest telecommunications hardware, software and professional services companies in the world. Operating in 150 countries, its headquarters are in Espoo, Finland. www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com

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Nokia Siemens Networks to provide broadband for Austrian trains

Delivering WiFi to passengers and enhancing operations for WESTbahn

Passengers using WESTbahn’s luxury express trains on the Salzburg-Vienna route will enjoy a superior travel experience with always-on broadband and other online services by the end of 2011. The Austrian railway operator has commissioned Nokia Siemens Networks to equip seven new double-deck trains with broadband access. The broadband connectivity will also enable the monitoring of trains and onboard equipment to improve operational support.

"Delivering a better experience for our passengers is a key priority for us, and providing onboard broadband access and other online services will add to our train’s existing top-class facilities,” said Thomas Baierl, CIO, MSc, WESTbahn Management GmbH. “Apart from Nokia Siemens Networks’ end-to-end capabilities and competence in train-to-land data transmission, what truly impressed us was their team’s clear understanding of our business needs."

"Our approach to delivering broadband on trains will provide WESTbahn’s passengers with seamless internet connectivity. It will also enable train attendants to sell tickets to passengers on board the train as the solution will connect ticketing devices to a centralized server. These services will make travel more convenient and enjoyable,” added Michael Tremmel, in charge of broadband on trains across Europe for Nokia Siemens Networks. “In addition, the solution’s flexible architecture will enable the WESTbahn to easily extend its offering to include CCTV services."

Under the contract, Nokia Siemens Networks will provide a complete network operation center, which will enable WESTbahn to track its trains via GPS, check on-board equipment performance and monitor the train-to-land connection to ensure best-in-class services. The company will integrate this solution with a data center on land for real-time data access, and will also deliver operation and maintenance services.

About WESTbahn Management GmbH

WESTbahn Management GmbH is a 100 percent private railway company that will start operations on December 11th, 2011 with 13 daily connections between Vienna and Salzburg. With WESTbahn, railway travel will become easy again. You buy your ticket on the internet or on the train without any additional charge. WESTbahn will offer first class quality at half the price of its competitor’s second class.

About Nokia Siemens Networks

Nokia Siemens Networks is a leading global enabler of telecommunications services. With its focus on innovation and sustainability, the company provides a complete portfolio of mobile, fixed and converged network technology, as well as professional services including consultancy and systems integration, deployment, maintenance and managed services. It is one of the largest telecommunications hardware, software and professional services companies in the world. Operating in 150 countries, its headquarters are in Espoo, Finland. www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com

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Nokia Siemens Networks invests in semiconductor innovator ClariPhy Inc.

Provides new high performance integrated circuits for future information networks

Nokia Siemens Networks has invested an undisclosed amount for a stake in ClariPhy Inc., a leading US-based semiconductor developer. ClariPhy provides advanced integrated circuits that improve the efficiency and capacity of networks used for transporting vast quantities of information.

Specifically, Nokia Siemens Networks’ investment supports ClariPhy’s development of highly integrated single chip complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS)* integrated circuits (ICs) for high performance optical networks digital signaling processing (DSP)**. Essentially, these semiconductor chips integrate the multiple tasks required by transport networks such as conversion of analog signals from optical sensors to digital, digital manipulation, and back to analog form again, faster and more efficiently.

High capacity transport networks are vital for delivering fixed and mobile broadband. The amount of data required by applications such as IPTV, video on demand, cloud computing and services is increasing 60% per year. Nokia Siemens Networks predicts that by 2015 data traffic across mobile networks alone will exceed 43 Exabytes, equivalent to 6.3 billion people on the planet downloading two digital books every day.

"The rapid processing of digital signals is crucial in high capacity optical networks,” said Vesa Tykkyläinen, head of the optical networks business line at Nokia Siemens Networks. “We are investing in a company that is innovative and a forerunner of the coherent chip technology*** with 40nm (nanometer) CMOS for 40G. ClariPhy will also be among the firsts to use 28nm CMOS for 100G, high-gain and low-latency soft-decision****, forward error correction and many other innovations. Together with our leading R&D, ClariPhy will enable us to be at the forefront of high performance and low power consumption next-generation optical platforms capable of 400G and beyond along with reducing equipment footprint".

"Funding from a global telecoms industry leader demonstrates confidence and faith in ClariPhy’s leadership and its unique ability to bring together the skills and technologies required to develop cost-effective CMOS networking ICs, enabling next generation of optical networks”, said Paul Voois, CEO of ClariPhy. “The investment highlights the alignment between our strategy for IC development and Nokia Siemens Networks’ plans for packet optical networks to serve a rapidly evolving market".

High capacity optical networks are used for Smart Transport networks, which provide the lowest total cost of ownership for a service provider’s multiservice data transport network. Smart Transport networks are based on Nokia Siemens Networks’ globally available IP Integration capabilities to plan, install, integrate, provision, maintain, optimize and, where needed, operate multi-vendor transport networks. Besides the company’s professional services, it includes Nokia Siemens Networks’ products such as DWDM optical transport platforms; optical transport network switches; TransNet network planning tool; A-Series Carrier Ethernet switches; FlexiPacket Microwave and operational support systems coupled with IP/MPLS, timing over packet and service level assurance partner products from other leading vendors.

Nokia Siemens Networks’ investment in ClariPhy and the installed base of smart transport networks will improve the existing optical networks and take the company beyond 100G. Moreover, it will enable Nokia Siemens Networks to lead the industry in the development of higher rate cards (400G, 1T), enabling it to address the huge increase in IP network traffic.

About ClariPhy

ClariPhy Communications, Inc. (www.clariphy.com) develops mixed signal, advanced signal processing (MXSP) semiconductors targeting 10G, 40G and 100G networks in enterprise backbone, enterprise data center and telecom markets. ClariPhy is headquartered in Irvine, California and has offices in Los Altos, California and Cordoba, Argentina. ClariPhy’s investors include Allegis Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, Oclaro, Onset Ventures, Nokia Siemens Networks and Pacific General Ventures.

Check the company’s latest release for more details.

About Nokia Siemens Networks

Nokia Siemens Networks is a leading global enabler of telecommunications services. With its focus on innovation and sustainability, the company provides a complete portfolio of mobile, fixed and converged network technology, as well as professional services including consultancy and systems integration, deployment, maintenance and managed services. It is one of the largest telecommunications hardware, software and professional services companies in the world. Operating in 150 countries, its headquarters are in Espoo, Finland. www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com

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Nokia Siemens Networks adds depth to customer experience management

CEM 2.0 at CommunicAsia 2011 provides new opportunities, competitive edge for operators

Today, 66 percent of operators worldwide cannot access the data in their networks and IT systems to enhance their customers’ service experience*. Nokia Siemens Networks’ expanded customer experience management portfolio, CEM 2.0, helps operators fully utilize this data to improve the customer experience and their business results. Its full capabilities are on show at this week’s CommunicAsia 2011 event in Singapore.

“According to our own detailed study**, four out of ten high-value customers are dissatisfied with their current operators, and likely to switch operators in the next 12-month period,” said Shamir Shoham, head of product management for Nokia Siemens Networks Business Solutions. “To counter this trend, operators are increasingly relying on Nokia Siemens Networks’ approach to customer experience management. The approach helps them make the most of the assets they already own by linking insights about service performance and customer behavior to trigger actions that deliver genuine business impact.”

CEM 2.0 brings together pre-integrated software that interprets and simplifies the millions of data points that can be extracted from a telecoms network and operators’ IT systems. This approach enables real-time insight and action across the entire customer lifecycle and a service provider’s operations. With real-time aggregation and correlation of subscriber, service, network and device data, CEM 2.0 proactively drives real-time actions to improve customer experience and business results for prioritized customer segments. Actions are driven by predefined key performance indicators in areas such as campaigns and promotions, service fulfilment, service quality, payments and customer care.

Nokia Siemens Networks is arguably ahead of its direct competitors in assembling a complete CEM solution,” said Joe McGarvey of Current Analysis***. McGarvey has also recommended that other network equipment providers follow the leading approach of Nokia Siemens Networks.

Nokia Siemens Networks is currently providing its CEM 2.0 software and services to a major regional operator in Asia, who is able to correlate data from many sources and obtain immediate feedback on how poor mobile broadband quality and download problems are impacting customer experience. With these insights, the operator is able to respond proactively to problems, identifying whether they are caused by incorrect device settings or mobile broadband subscription issues, and providing personalized and proactive services to resolve them. This allows the operator to target higher value users and differentiate its services across its 100 million customer base while at the same time improving the efficiency of its operations.

Using Nokia Siemens Networks’ CEM 2.0, another major player is preventing bill shock. The operator is being hailed for its proactive industry response by throttling speeds when customers reach data limits. Customers also receive text message updates on the volume and cost of their data use when travelling. In each case, the operator taps holistic insight from their systems and takes targeted action to reduce data speeds or update subscribers on data costs, rather than charging for excess data.

Finally, tackling existing, complex IT systems and processes, was the starting point for another project with a global operator. The operator used CEM 2.0 to manage its network, services and customer experience. The outcomes of the project, which enabled real-time visibility of customer experience, were increased, proactive problem solving, better informed customer service agents, greater customer satisfaction and lower costs. The project won the operator’s implementation and delivery prize in 2010.

To learn more about these cases and the capabilities of the CEM 2.0 offering, please visit Nokia Siemens Networks’ showcase at the Hibiscus rooms 3612 / 3611 / 3610 / 3710 at the Marina Bay Sands Expo, Singapore from June 21–23.

To discuss customer experience management, please visit Twitter and find existing comments with #CSPCX or use #CSPCX in your tweets.

About Nokia Siemens Networks

Nokia Siemens Networks is a leading global enabler of telecommunications services. With its focus on innovation and sustainability, the company provides a complete portfolio of mobile, fixed and converged network technology, as well as professional services including consultancy and systems integration, deployment, maintenance and managed services. It is one of the largest telecommunications hardware, software and professional services companies in the world. Operating in 150 countries, its headquarters are in Espoo, Finland. www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com

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Nokia Siemens Networks boosts base station power for greater capacity

New radio module provides 40% performance improvement at edge of cell while carriers can be distributed across 60 MHz frequency band range

Nokia Siemens Networks has expanded its Liquid Radio architecture* by launching a new, high power radio module for its Flexi Multiradio Base Station family** at CommunicAsia 2011 in Singapore. The higher output power means that the module offers greater GSM coverage and increased 3G data capacity at the edge of cells, providing an overall 40% increase in performance. This provides operators with the ability to efficiently enhance their network. In addition, the ability of the new radio module to allocate carriers frequencies across a broad 60 MHz range reduces the size of hardware required per base station site allowing more flexibility in deployment.

In mobile networks, the radio module is the part of a base station that amplifies each individual radio signal before broadcasting it from an antenna. Due to its higher output power, the new module improves the signal used to transmit voice or data to a mobile phone user. This directly increases how much useful information the signal can carry or the number of people for whom it can provide a connection.

Nokia Siemens Networks’ all in one radio module can be used for all installation types, such as indoor, outdoor, distributed, mast pole and 6-sector sites***, and it can provide up to 240 watts output power per sector, or provide 80 watts output to each of three sectors. It is also capable of allocating carriers within a 60 MHz range, which is particularly useful for operators with fragmented frequency bands. The module supports any combination of GSM, 3G, LTE or LTE-Advanced technologies in a single unit, significantly further reducing the hardware units a site may need.

"Our new radio module is especially suited for refarming GSM frequency bands for HSPA+ and LTE services and network sharing deployments,” said Thorsten Robrecht, head of Network Systems product management at Nokia Siemens Networks. “Moreover, we are the only vendor to combine the capacity to drive three remote radio heads – or sectors – into a single 25-liter unit, offering a smooth evolution for compact multiradio sites with lower power consumption."

Nokia Siemens Networks’ radio module is also the only three-sector remote radio unit in the industry that can be placed next to an antenna, enabling a light multiradio set-up in limited spaces and sites, which cannot be equipped with traditional base stations.

The first frequency variants of the new radio module – including on the 900, 900 J, 1800 and 2100 frequency bands – will be available for commercial deployment at the beginning of 2012. Further variants will be rolled out during the first half of 2012.

About Nokia Siemens Networks

Nokia Siemens Networks is a leading global enabler of telecommunications services. With its focus on innovation and sustainability, the company provides a complete portfolio of mobile, fixed and converged network technology, as well as professional services including consultancy and systems integration, deployment, maintenance and managed services. It is one of the largest telecommunications hardware, software and professional services companies in the world. Operating in 150 countries, its headquarters are in Espoo, Finland. www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com

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Nokia Siemens Networks helps carriers drive increased business agility at CommunicAsia 2011

Nokia Siemens Networks helps carriers drive increased business agility at CommunicAsia 2011

Nokia Siemens Networks will demonstrate innovations around its theme of ‘The Liquid Telco: Extreme Efficiency for Success’ at CommunicAsia 2011. The company will focus on practical solutions for enabling extremely flexible networks that dynamically adjust to changing customer demands. In addition, the theme reflects the fact that communication service providers (CSPs) require business agility to succeed in the highly fluid market environment.

Nokia Siemens Networks showcases will include its recently launched innovation for mobile networks called Liquid Radio, and CEM 2.0 that takes customer experience management to a new level. Managed energy services, bringing greater efficiency to telecoms networks working with expert consultants will also be a significant part of the demonstration.

"With an increasingly unpredictable future and constantly changing market, communication service providers are compelled to be flexible in their use of network resources,” said Paul Tyler, head of the Asia Pacific region for Nokia Siemens Networks. “Our leading Liquid Radio architecture is particularly relevant as it directs mobile broadband capacity to where it is needed most, redistributing network capacity based on user demands. As a result, we can deliver excellent customer experience while keeping operating costs low."

Specific launches and demonstrations from Nokia Siemens Networks at CommunicAsia 2011 include:

Demonstrating its industry leadership and holistic approach in LTE at the event. Nokia Siemens Networks’ LTE-Advanced carrier aggregation, enabling CSPs to utilize multiband frequency with greater efficiency will be another highlight at the event. With a proven track record of 37 commercial contracts till date, the company offers the best performance in live networks.
Showing how Managed Energy services use a series of performance metrics along with centralized and remote monitoring of power sources. It also offers corrective and preventive site maintenance for optimal use of field resources.
Highlighting Customer Experience Management 2.0, which enables operators to correlate the actual network data with their customers’ perceived experience. Its unique capability to tap data from multiple sources such as the network, services, devices and use patterns provides key insight for automated and personalized business processes. Moreover, it helps to proactively identify and act on fast changing requirements of the market. The CEM 2.0 demonstration will also include social analytics, which helps operators to identify high value customers while its campaign automation offering triggers campaigns targeting specific customers to achieve desired business results and extend customer lifetime.
Showcasing the most efficient optical packet transport, the performance proven DWDM platform, which is flexible, cost-efficient, future-proof and demonstrating readiness for 400 Gigabits per second.
Please visit Nokia Siemens Networks’ Showcase at the Hibiscus rooms 3612 / 3611 / 3610 / 3710 at the Marina Bay Sands Expo, Singapore from June 21 – 23.

Nokia Siemens Networks is also participating in the ‘Forum on Cloud Computing’ at the event on June 21.
For more information on Nokia Siemens Networks at CommunicAsia 2011, visit www.liquidtelco.com

About Nokia Siemens Networks

Nokia Siemens Networks is a leading global enabler of telecommunications services. With its focus on innovation and sustainability, the company provides a complete portfolio of mobile, fixed and converged network technology, as well as professional services including consultancy and systems integration, deployment, maintenance and managed services. It is one of the largest telecommunications hardware, software and professional services companies in the world. Operating in 150 countries, its headquarters are in Espoo, Finland. www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com

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Celcom customers to enjoy faster speeds, improved communication services in Klang Valley

Celcom selects Nokia Siemens Networks to expand and modernize its 3G network in the central region

Celcom Axiata Berhad, the country’s first and foremost mobile telecommunications provider, has awarded a contract to Nokia Siemens Networks to boost its network as part of its ongoing network expansion and upgrade in Klang Valley. Under the contract, Nokia Siemens Networks will provide HSPA+ at up to 42Mbps to cater to the explosive smartphone growth in Malaysia. The upgrade will enable Celcom customers to benefit from faster data download speeds and better coverage in metropolitan areas.

“Klang Valley is one of Celcom’s most important markets as it has the highest density of mobile broadband and smartphone users. Our key priority is to ensure that our customers get the best experience be it in voice, video, music, email, internet browsing or multi-media messaging,“ said Dato Sri Shazalli Ramly, Chief Executive Officer of Celcom Axiata Berhad. “As Celcom aims to grow its current smartphone user base to 30% of total customers by the end of 2011, we are pleased to award this crucial network infrastructure upgrade contract to Nokia Siemens Networks. The network upgrade with Nokia Siemens Networks’ technology will benefit our customers with faster data speeds and enhanced services.”

Under the contract, Nokia Siemens Networks will deliver LTE-ready radio access equipment Flexi Multiradio Base Stations to deliver HSPA+ services and upgrade its network management system, NetAct for Celcom’s current and future needs.

”We are confident that our latest technology and services will not only deliver improved quality and coverage while reducing operational expenditure but most importantly, enhance the mobile experience of Celcom subscribers“, said Mikko Pokkinen, head at Nokia Siemens Networks, Malaysia. “Our industry leading smartphone friendly networks supported by strong local services capabilities aim to ensure Celcom’s success in the fast growing smartphone and personal computing device markets.”

About Celcom

Celcom is the country’s first and foremost mobile telecommunications provider with over 11 million customers. Established in 1988, it boasts the widest national 2G and 3G networks, covering over 98% of the population. Currently the largest mobile broadband and corporate services provider, Celcom is now moving towards integrated multi-access and multimedia services, in line with evolving technologies and consumer behaviour in Malaysia. A culture that places the customer first is reflected in our award-winning customer service, products, and other corporate accolades at a regional level. Celcom is part of the Axiata Group of Companies, one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies, with more than 150 million customers across 10 Asian markets. For more information on Celcom, log on to http://www.celcom.com.my

About Nokia Siemens Networks

Nokia Siemens Networks is a leading global enabler of telecommunications services. With its focus on innovation and sustainability, the company provides a complete portfolio of mobile, fixed and converged network technology, as well as professional services including consultancy and systems integration, deployment, maintenance and managed services. It is one of the largest telecommunications hardware, software and professional services companies in the world. Operating in 150 countries, its headquarters are in Espoo, Finland.www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com

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SK Telecom quadruples network capacity to 40G, prepares for 100G

Selects Nokia Siemens Networks’ optical network equipment for cost-effective transition

SK Telecom, the largest mobile operator in Korea will soon increase its network capacity by four times with 40 gigabits per second (40G) transmission, and prepare its network for transition to 100G capacity in the future. The operator has selected Nokia Siemens Networks’ 100G-ready optical network equipment for a cost-effective capacity expansion. The system uses dense wavelength division multiplexing **(DWDM), where a number of different ‘colors’ or wavelengths of light transports data down the same optical fiber, each carrying information at 40G.

“Korea is one of the most advanced broadband markets in the world, and is home to a vast number of growing smart device users. As data traffic continues to surge in this country, operators are considering plans for terabit optical transport networks or 100G,” said Paul Tyler, head of APAC region at Nokia Siemens Networks. “Nokia Siemens Networks has over 100 DWDM customers around the world and utilizes its technology leadership to ensure a superior end-user experience for SK Telecom customers.”

As part of the contract, Nokia Siemens Networks will deliver its hiT 7300 dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) platform to SK Telecom. Based on the CP-QPSK modulation format, the company’s coherent detection 40G transponder* will utilize the operator‘s installed DWDM network infrastructure to transition to 40G line rate without the costly and time-consuming fiber measurement currently required by other systems.

About Nokia Siemens Networks

Nokia Siemens Networks is a leading global enabler of telecommunications services. With its focus on innovation and sustainability, the company provides a complete portfolio of mobile, fixed and converged network technology, as well as professional services including consultancy and systems integration, deployment, maintenance and managed services. It is one of the largest telecommunications hardware, software and professional services companies in the world. Operating in 150 countries, its headquarters are in Espoo, Finland. www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com

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Nokia Siemens Networks offers enhanced voice quality, capacity on GSM

Conducts world’s first Dual Full Rate call using latest software innovation

Taking a step forward in the evolution of GSM, Nokia Siemens Networks conducted the world’s first pre-commercial call, exploiting its Orthogonal Sub-Channel Dual Full Rate (OSC-DFR) software feature for GSM networks. With this feature, GSM operators can enjoy the twin benefits of up to 100% increase in voice capacity and significantly enhanced speech quality. GSM is by far the most widespread mobile technology with over 4 billion subscriptions worldwide*.

“The new feature builds on our OSC innovation of 2009**, and extends its capabilities by offering better speech quality along with an increase in voice handling capacity,” said Kimmo Virkki, head of GSM product management at Nokia Siemens Networks. “OSC-DFR can reduce capital and operations expenditure for operators as it requires fewer carrier units and base station sites as well as less transport capacity. Moreover, the OSC-DFR feature allows operators to accommodate more voice and data traffic into the existing spectrum, thus facilitating the reuse or refarming of 3G/LTE services in GSM frequency bands.”

Operators who have deployed the commonly used Adaptive Multi Rate-Full Rate (AMR FR)*** in their networks can use the OSC-DFR feature to achieve unmatched speech quality and at the same time can nearly double their voice capacity. Nokia Siemens Networks’ new GSM feature will be used in customer pilots from the end of June 2011.

Nokia Siemens Networks is an industry leader in GSM/EDGE with 362 GSM customers in 142 countries, serving over 2.9 billion subscribers globally.

About Nokia Siemens Networks

Nokia Siemens Networks is a leading global enabler of telecommunications services. With its focus on innovation and sustainability, the company provides a complete portfolio of mobile, fixed and converged network technology, as well as professional services including consultancy and systems integration, deployment, maintenance and managed services. It is one of the largest telecommunications hardware, software and professional services companies in the world. Operating in 150 countries, its headquarters are in Espoo, Finland. www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com

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Nokia Siemens Networks wins two Global Telecoms Business Innovation Awards

Work with Cubio and Empower recognized for innovative approach to driving agility, efficiency based on software as a service

Nokia Siemens Networks was a double winner at the Global Telecoms Business (GTB) Innovation Awards 2011 yesterday. The company’s Field Service Management system won an award in the ‘Wholesale Service Innovation-Managed Service Innovation’ category. Nokia Siemens Network’s cloud-based communication and messaging platform was honored in the ‘Wireless Network Infrastructure Innovation-Mobile Cloud Platform Innovation’ category. The awards were presented in a ceremony that took place in London June 7, 2011.

Field Service Management is based on software as a service (SaaS) and has been developed and piloted with Empower, a field service provider offering field engineering, construction and maintenance services to energy, telecom and other industries. Empower uses this system to allocate resources for work orders based on their business value and the current location, schedules and skills of its field technicians. The company has estimated that the system has increased the efficiency of field service engineers, allowing them to spend up to 17 percent more of their time on actual maintenance and problem resolution while halving the time it spends on work planning.

“With field engineering and maintenance outsourcing on the rise, we need a consolidated view of field activities to streamline our processes,” said Juhani Vanhala, chief development officer, Empower Group. “Nokia Siemens Networks’ cloud-based solution helps boost our competitiveness as well as expand our service portfolio while maximizing revenues.”

Nokia Siemens Networks’ cloud-based communication platform allows event organizers to disperse regular, up-dated event information or provide mobile ‘welcome’ and registration services for thousands of participants of larger events without heavy investments into hardware and software. Information can be delivered via multiple channels such as SMS and email. Moreover, the platform’s auto-polling feature allows participants to share immediate feedback with event organizers.

“Nokia Siemens Networks cloud-based solution, as part of Cubio Tapahtuma (Event), has enabled us to offer a cost-effective, scalable platform to realize a close interaction between thousands of participants and visitors, and the event organizer,” said Harry Järn, CEO, Cubio. “We manage the complete infrastructure setup and the user interface, and provide necessary support for improving the interaction.”

Global Telecoms Business Innovation Awards, established in 2007, recognize innovative projects in the telecommunications industry globally, involving service providers and their technology suppliers.

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Belgacom delivers improved digital TV experience

Nokia Siemens Networks, Cisco enable faster channel switching of digital TV, better video quality for operator’s IPTV service

Belgacom, the leading Belgian IPTV service provider, has introduced a new technology enabling almost instantaneous channel switching while improving the image quality of its digital TV service. The technology was provided by Cisco and integrated by Nokia Siemens Networks.

“The main highlight of this deployment is that it’s a world first for a network-friendly implementation of the technology,” said Brook Longdon, head of media and entertainment at Nokia Siemens Networks. “It takes into account the fact that broadband access networks don’t have unlimited bandwidth for fast channel change services. Our technology addresses this constraint allowing Belgacom to use precious bandwidth to broadcast more content."

Belgacom’s digital TV service offered distinctly superior image quality compared to analog, but the digital TV’s channel change speed was slow. In addition to improving the channel switching speed of the digital TV system, Belgacom wanted to resolve occasional picture distortion caused by poor quality cabling at its subscribers’ premises. Nokia Siemens Networks’ solution, based on Cisco VQE technology*, enables faster channel switching and eliminates picture distortion, using only little backbone bandwidth.

“Enhancing customer satisfaction and operational efficiency lie at the heart of Cisco’s technology for optimizing medianets,” said Everth Flores, director, Service Provider Video Operations for Cisco Europe. “We are pleased that Cisco’s Visual Quality Experience technology, together with the client-based fast channel change, found in our set-top box, has enabled Belgacom to significantly reduce channel change time of its digital TV system, improve video delivery quality and increase customer satisfaction.”

Under the contract, Nokia Siemens Networks has implemented an intelligent resource control mechanism within its media delivery platform**. This platform, when overlaid on Cisco VQE technology, adapts the fast channel change service to work within the available bandwidth at each end-user device, thereby protecting other services on the same connection.

In addition, Nokia Siemens Networks’ media delivery platform is used to control and manage fast channel change and packet-loss repair services, and remotely deploy it across set-top boxes being used by subscribers. As a result, Belgacom is able to provide, configure and monitor the services via its operational support systems.

About Cisco

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About Nokia Siemens Networks

Nokia Siemens Networks is a leading global enabler of telecommunications services. With its focus on innovation and sustainability, the company provides a complete portfolio of mobile, fixed and converged network technology, as well as professional services including consultancy and systems integration, deployment, maintenance and managed services. It is one of the largest telecommunications hardware, software and professional services companies in the world. Operating in 150 countries, its headquarters are in Espoo, Finland. www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com

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Cloud service supports world’s largest youth volleyball tournament

Cubio, Nokia Siemens Networks use cloud-based platform to improve interaction between event organizer and participants at the Power Cup

Thousands of players and visitors at one of the world’s largest youth sports tournaments will get instant event information and ‘lost and found’ service, and interact with event organizers via SMS, email, Facebook and Twitter, thanks to a simple cloud-based communications platform. The Power Cup, a youth volleyball tournament in Finland that sees up to 1,000 teams competing, is using a platform supplied by the service provider Cubio and powered by Nokia Siemens Networks’ technology. The four-day event runs from June 9 – 12 in Lahti, Finland.

“We wanted to offer personalized and up-to-date information services for players and visitors, but we didn’t want to create a complex and costly infrastructure for just a four-day event,” said Hanna Iiskola-Kesonen, managing director, Finnish Volleyball Association. “We chose Nokia Siemens Networks’ cloud-based communication platform as it makes our life simple by ensuring easy information dispersal while taking care of technical back-end issues.”

“Together with Nokia Siemens Networks, we provide ‘Cubio Tapahtuma (Event)’ in a Software-as-a-Service model. It is ready to use and can be easily subscribed to by organizers without worrying about technical back-end issues,” said Harry Järn, CEO, Cubio. “Nokia Siemens Networks’ cloud-based platform, as part of Cubio Tapahtuma (Event), has enabled us to offer a cost-effective, scalable platform to realize a close interaction between thousands of participants and visitors, and the event organizer. We manage the complete infrastructure setup and the user interface, and provide necessary support for improving interaction between the event organizer and visitors.”

Nokia Siemens Networks’ cloud-based communication and messaging platform enables event organizers to provide ‘welcome’ and registration messages and ‘lost and found’ services. It also enables event organizers to provide relevant and timely information about match schedules and results across about 300 volleyball courts using different channels depending on user preference, such as SMS and email. In addition, it enables event organizers to connect to participants’ social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. Moreover, the platform’s auto-polling functionality can facilitate immediate feedback from participants to event management.

About Cubio

Oy Cubio Communications Ltd. is Finnish independent virtual service provider established 1999. This makes Cubio one of the oldest virtual service providers in the world. Cubio offers their customers high quality voice, internet and data services. Cubio focuses on high standard customer care and offers services in 5 languages. Cubio’s headquarters is in Helsinki, Finland with subsidiary in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Cubio’s marketshare in the international calls is around 10% with turnover around 6 Million Euros (2010).www.cubio.fi

About Nokia Siemens Networks

Nokia Siemens Networks is a leading global enabler of telecommunications services. With its focus on innovation and sustainability, the company provides a complete portfolio of mobile, fixed and converged network technology, as well as professional services including consultancy and systems integration, deployment, maintenance and managed services. It is one of the largest telecommunications hardware, software and professional services companies in the world. Operating in 150 countries, its headquarters are in Espoo, Finland. www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com

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INOVENTICA group of companies to offer cloud services

Select Nokia Siemens Networks to deploy DWDM optical transport network across Russia to provide cloud services

INOVENTICA, a new infrastructure service provider in Russia, is ready to offer cloud computing services to public and private customers. The company will use a DWDM optical transport network from Nokia Siemens Networks to deliver its services. The network is capable of delivering services at 40G (gigabits per second) to 83 Russian regions.

“The development of our own high-tech IT infrastructure with an advanced transport network is a strategically important step for us,” said Vladimir Scherbinin, general director, INOVENTICA. “Expansion of the backbone capacity using advanced technologies from Nokia Siemens Networks will help us improve the quality of services delivered to end-users."

Private clouds address the security concerns of large enterprises and public sector companies. Moreover, cloud computing helps them focus on their core priorities without getting concerned with technology implementation,” said Kristina Tikhonova, general director, Nokia Siemens Networks, Russia.

The solution provided by Nokia Siemens Networks is based on its multi-reach hiT 7300 DWDM platform that uses coherent transmission technology*, in particular a modulation format called CP-QPSK (coherent polarization multiplexed quadrature phase shift keying). The platform offers effective 40 Gbps optical channel network design, low-latency connections, and enables an overall reduction in deployment cost and time. It also reduces the operating expenditure and speeds up service delivery.

Nokia Siemens Networks has also supplied its TNMS (Transmission Network Management System) that provides end-to-end administration and performance monitoring for the complete network. TNMS improves operational efficiency, reduces costs for service delivery and simplifies network operations.

About INOVENTICA

The group of companies INOVENTICA is the first IT-operator in Russia implementing projects for creating public, hybrid and private “clouds” on the national scale through provision of access to the unified pool of distributed information and computing resources of the Group companies and its partners on the basis of own ICT infrastructure. The partners and customers of the group of companies INOVENTICA are government institutions and departments, SMB, large corporations, solution providers, telecom operators, hosting providers, software developers, and operators of Data Centers.

About Nokia Siemens Networks

Nokia Siemens Networks is a leading global enabler of telecommunications services. With its focus on innovation and sustainability, the company provides a complete portfolio of mobile, fixed and converged network technology, as well as professional services including consultancy and systems integration, deployment, maintenance and managed services. It is one of the largest telecommunications hardware, software and professional services companies in the world. Operating in 150 countries, its headquarters are in Espoo, Finland. www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com

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