China Unicom selects Nokia core networking products for 5G

摘要

China Unicom has chosen Nokia to support the build-out of its 5G SA Core network in China.Nokia has been awarded an approximately 10% share of China Unicorn's 5G core network. The core network performs a variety of functions, including setting up connections, bandwidth management, scaling and securing the network, and, now with 5G, opening up the network to support new, software-enabled use cases such as network slicing.The Nokia Cloud core products that China Unicom selected provide Unified Data Management, Session Management and User Plane functions, and are complemented by Data Refinery and NetAct. All products are deployed on Nokia's CloudBand, with Unified Data Management handling all subscriber data and services.