Nokia has extended its partnership with Hill Air Force Base in Utah and the National Spectrum Consortium to support radar and 5G network operation management.
As part of this partnership, Nokia will help ensure incumbent radar and 5G networks can coexist in a shared spectrum, by controlling the behavior in real-time of the 5G system when the radar is present.
“We appreciate the dedication of our industry partners working with us to deliver on the potential of these cutting-edge 5G networking solutions and 5G enabled applications,” said Deb Stanislawski, director of prototyping and experimentation for Office of the Under Secretary of Defense Research and Engineering 5G.
Hill Air Force Base is using Nokia’s O-RAN solutions for the testbed and Phase 1 of the project, which has been successfully completed. The project is part of a wider initiative by the OUSD(R&E) to create its first tranche of 5G wireless testbeds.
“We look forward to continuing our work together to help move beyond the state-of-the-art in 5G commercial architectures to ensure we address key Warfighting needs and expand U.S.-based capabilities critical to 5G adoption,” Stanislawski added.
Nokia’s Service Enablement Platform combines RAN Intelligent Controller and Multi-access Edge Computing capabilities to deliver radio network programmability and artificial intelligence/machine learning across the Open RAN ecosystem.
For Hill Air Force Base, Nokia’s Service Enablement Platform exposes radar interference detection and mitigation capabilities via an O-RAN interface developed by the O-RAN Alliance.
“Nokia was the first major vendor to join the O-RAN Alliance, we have contributed more to O-RAN specifications than any other company, we chair three workgroups which are Open Fronthaul, RAN Intelligent Controller, and Operation and Management and participate in all but two workgroups,” said Michael Loomis, general manager at Nokia Federal Solutions. “We continue to deliver innovation with security and openness built-in.”