Nokia and Google Cloud have put together a global strategic partnership aimed at supporting telecom providers’ compute needs for 5G in both the core and the network edge.
The two companies said that they will “work closely to validate, optimize and evolve cloud-native network functions” and “co-innovate” on solutions that support carriers in their efforts to deliver 5G networks and services at-scale.
“Communications service providers have a tremendous opportunity ahead of them to support businesses’ digital transformations at the network edge through both 5G connectivity and cloud-native applications and capabilities,” said George Nazi, VP of telco, media and entertainment industry solutions at Google Cloud, adding that doing so “requires modernized infrastructure, built for a cloud-native 5G core.”
