Orange has selected Nokia to build a sliced 4G/5G private network for a modern industrial environment, ensuring reliable, scalable and sustainable connectivity solutions for industrial use cases. Orange and Nokia have deployed the 4G/5G private network combined with network slicing at Schneider Electric’s plant in Le Vaudreuil, France.
Nokia’s slicing solution supports existing LTE, 5G standalone (5G SA) and 5G non-standalone (5G NSA) devices and also includes domain controller software in RAN, core and transport layers to enable full slice connectivity. The slice continuity between LTE and 5G NR allows Orange and Schneider Electric to operate a state-of-the-art indoor network in an industrial setting. With this solution, both partners continue to implement and test the management of the different priorities, performance, and security capabilities adapted to their innovative use cases while optimizing network resources.
Orange Business Services offers its industrial customers a comprehensive portfolio of mobility solutions: Mobile Private Networks (MPN) built on private infrastructures, virtual MPNs on the public network and hybrid MPNs combining private and public infrastructures. The choice of architecture is made to best meet the security, performance and resiliency requirements of the business customers’ use cases both on and off the industrial campuses, as well as to optimize costs.
Commenting on the development, Arnaud Vamparys, Senior Vice President Radio Networks at Orange Innovation and 5G Champion, said, “Thanks to Nokia’s advanced slicing technology, Orange is able to further explore with Schneider Electric the power of scalable private 4G/5G connectivity applied to industrial uses.”
Meanwhile, Tommi Uitto, President, Mobile Networks at Nokia, said, “With Nokia’s network slicing solution, communication service providers and enterprises can enjoy first to market advantage through the early launch of new slicing services, for all end-users equipped with 4G or 5G devices. As a long time innovation partner, Nokia is delighted to achieve this first with Orange in an industrial manufacturing environment.”
