Finnish telecom equipment maker Nokia on Monday announced it has partnered with Microsoft, Amazon web services and Google to develop new cloud-based 5G radio solutions with its radio access network (RNA) technology, the company said in a press release on Monday.

The goal of the partnerships is to develop new business cases, the company said in three separate statements.

“Open collaboration is key to the development of new and innovative high value 5G use cases that will equip our customers with the tools they need for digital transformation,” Nokia President of Mobile Networks Tomi Uitto said.

“The initiative will see engineering teams from both companies research how the combination of Nokia’s RAN (Radio Access Network), Open RAN, Cloud RAN and edge solutions can operate seamlessly with AWS Outposts,” the Nokia press release noted.

Nokia shares were up over 4 per cent in Helsinki at 1300 GMT on Monday.

Nokia’s partnership with AWS will have the companies working together developing a proof of concept through researching the use of Nokia’s cloud RAN (vRAN) and Open RAN technologies. The project will support Nokia’s 5G deployments and assist it in developing new use cases.

“The initiative will see engineering teams from both companies research how the combination of Nokia’s RAN (Radio Access Network), Open RAN, Cloud RAN and edge solutions can operate seamlessly with AWS Outposts,” the Nokia press release noted.
Separately, Nokia has partnered with Google to create new 5G cloud-based radio solutions, according to another press release.
“The two companies will collaborate on joint solutions combining Nokia’s Radio Access Network (RAN), Open RAN, Cloud RAN (vRAN) and edge cloud technologies, with Google’s edge computing platform and applications ecosystem,” according to the press release.

The project will see Nokia’s Nokia’s 5G vDU (virtualized distributed unit) and 5G vCU (virtualised centralised unit) tested on Google’s edge computing platform, as well as Nokia’s 5G standalone network with vCU and 5G core tested on Google’s Cloud Anthos platform.