Nokia Today

About Nokia Today

Nokia Today podcast discusses the network technology trends that shape policymakers, enterprise, and industry decision-making. At Nokia, we create technology that helps the world act together. All opinions expressed by contributors are solely their own and do not reflect those of the company. For news about Nokia, visit www.nokia.com

Publisher

Nokia

Category

news · technology

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

1 May 2020

Latest episode

4 Jan 2022

Latest episodes

24 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   4 Jan 2022

   Trends and State of the Telecommunications Industry

   During his 11-year tenure at Nokia and its subsidiaries, David Eckard has journeyed from design engineer to chief technology officer to his current position: vice president of strategy and technology of North America. With 2021 ending, Eckard recently joined Nokia Today podcast host Tyler Kern to discuss the latest trends in the telecommunications industry and what may lie ahead in 2022. The telecommunications industry used to be a “layered cake,” as Eckard described. Everyone in the market was responsible for something, whether that was chipsets, product components, product creators, or service providers. When the iPhone era arrived, services decoupled, causing these layers to interconnect. Decoupling brings concerns with reliability, security and who will make everything work while providing performance, speed, scalability, and centralization. “At the end of the day, the big challenges we are seeing is who actually owns that customer?” Eckard said. “Because in the past, these service providers were the ones who truly owned those customers. Now, with the webscale companies coming in such as Amazon and Microsoft, they all have such a huge and immense suite of resources, of applications and tools that they are now opening up for others to build upon,” he continued. The main innovation challenge is how well teams, companies and individuals will bring things to market and execute them. Consumer acceptance is the easy part. Eckard stated, “The pace of acceptance of innovation, the acceptance of new technology into those spaces is just phenomenal.” Obsolescence of rapidly certain technologies also presents the challenge of how to carry data forward and not lose it. Eckard also touched on a dilemma that innovators face: How will they address disrupted technologies versus sustained ones? Large companies will need to bring technologies to scale to allow sustenance. For more information on the current trends and state of the telecommunications industry, visit nokia.com or subscribe to the Nokia Today podcast on Apple iTunes or Spotify.

2. 

   13 Dec 2021

   A Peek into the Future of 6G with Nokia Today

   First, it was 3G, then 4G, now 5G, and now — you guessed it! — around 2030, the world will see the launch of 6G. Nokia Today Host Tyler Kern spoke with Grace Koh, vice president of legislative affairs at Nokia, and Devaki Chandramouli, Next G Alliance (NGA) Steering Group co-chair. Technology leaders will continue enhancing 5G for life-saving services and increasing economic benefit for consumers. Concurrently, leaders are looking at foundational requirements for 6G. Chandramouli said, “6G is envisioned to serve as a network that takes us from connectivity to togetherness, information to knowledge, and effectiveness to purpose.” According to Chandramouli, the NGA will help accomplish this prediction through its purpose of advancing U.S. technology by bringing together industry players to drive innovation and cooperate with other international organizations. The NGA is divided into a full-members group, steering group, six working groups and two committees. The full-members group sets strategy and policies while the steering group oversees strategy implementation, provides steering recommendations and oversees the working groups. The working groups have various specific responsibilities. Koh is a member of the policy committee, which sets a regulatory environment by interfacing with government and encouraging rules, laws and regulations that encourage innovation in the 6G world. “It’s very exciting to be able to show the government how they can participate in coordinating, leading and contributing to day-to-day activities like 6G development,” Koh shared. As for the future, Koh stated: “By working together, of course we can accelerate innovation and leverage the research to solve the challenges and help the U.S. attain tech leadership but also develop 6G technology for the good of the mankind.” The Nokia Today podcast is available on Spotify, Apple iTunes, and Google Podcast. It is also viewable on Nokia’s website.

3. 

   1 Dec 2021

   Digital Transformation Strategies in the Age of COVID: Nokia Today

   Companies often have fragmented strategies when it comes to digital strategies

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