Re-inventing NOKIA
Phil Twist, VP in Portfolio Marketing for NSN/Nokia talks about the goals of the re-invented and refreshed Nokia and its ambitions for the future… He tells us about Nokia Radio Cloud, the proposed migration route of the big telcos to the cloud that may increase their flexibility and capacity. He comments on the exponentially expanding market of the connected machines and things, that includes everything producing or crunching loads of data – from IoT to Smart TVs, connected cars and factory equipment, to home devices and even robotic surgery systems. He also explains all about the LTE-U (or Licensed Assisted Access) technology, which is a small-cell solution using WiFi unlicensed spectrum for additional LTE capacity, with the aim of offering improved network performance and superior customer experience. Interviewed by Yannis Rizopoulos for Tech Talks Central.
1:17 “..Nokia radio cloud is a very big thing – an architecture rather, not yet a product! It is a concept which is looking at the evolution of radio networks (not 5G – before 5G) and it is exploiting radio stations points of presence that are distributed around the city, the town, the country… a new, simple way of connecting them using Ethernet into a hub site – it is doing the signal process in radio base-station… ”
4:13 “…(security) is one of the challenges of moving into an all-IP network! it is not necessary to have the same security everywhere… One of our most significant launches here, is the Network Security Director, which is orchestrating and managing (the process) so that any component in the network has the proper security in place and is managed from a central location – you can make sure you have the encryption, the firewalls or whatever in place…”
Phil Twist
VP Portfolio Marketing at Nokia Networks
Phil is VP of Portfolio Marketing for Nokia Networks. He and his team work closely with the business lines to provide marketing content and collateral for analyst, press and media relations, messaging and materials to launch new products, services and solutions to the market and help enable the sales teams for the full Nokia Networks portfolio. The scope of the portfolio covers forthcoming technologies, radio and core infrastructure for GSM, WCDMA, FDD-LTE and TD-LTE, as well packet core, subscriber data management, packet networks, industry-leading OSS and Customer Experience Management software and the full suite of Global Services, including network planning and optimisation services, system integration, implementation, care and managed services. Phil has been active in the telecoms industry since 1984 and has extensive experience working with operators to implement innovative solutions and achieve business success. In his earlier positions at Nokia Siemens Networks and Nokia Networks, which he joined in 1999, he was global Sales Director for Vodafone, head of the Customer Team responsible for Hutchison's business in the UK, and head of a Business Development team. Phil has a Master’s degree in Electrical Sciences from Cambridge University and an MBA. He is married, has three daughters and lives in Hampshire, UK. Follow him on Twitter under @phil_twist
Specialties: networks, marketing
Tech Talks Central interviewed 37 ICT professionals at the Mobile World Congress 2015, the Health & Wellness by ECHAlliance and the Heroes of the Mobile Fringe, events that ran through March 1st to March 4th in Barcelona, Spain.