Not many people get to say they altered the course of history. But our friend and colleague Morris (Morry) Tanenbaum is one of those select few. A long-time fixture at Bell Labs, first as a chemist and later as an executive, Tanenbaum is widely regarded as one of the founding fathers of the digital age for developing and demonstrating the … Read More
Several years ago, veteran Bell Labs Fellow Anne Lee attended an engineering workshop where a contemporary of hers presented a picture of her younger self at her first full-time job in which she was the only woman in her working group. Then the woman showed a newer image, this one of her current group decades later at the same company. … Read More
Our globe is hyper-connected by an elaborate network of high-capacity fiber optic cables. These strands of fiber, each about the dimension of a human hair, make up the backbone of the Internet and allow us to transmit millions of text, audio and video communications at the speed of light. When this network suffers an outage without warning it sets off … Read More
As with most revolutionary inventions, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain weren’t seeking to rewrite history. The pair of American physicists were merely aiming to improve telephone callsy developing a smaller electrical device that consumed less power than vacuum tubes. But 75 years ago, on Dec. 16, 1947, they made a breakthrough that ushered in a new era, one that revolutionized … Read More
Over two autumn days, in a quiet New York University campus, Nokia took a glimpse into the future – highlighting the key technologies that will define the next era of advanced wireless communications. The Brooklyn 6G Summit brought together around 250 of the most creative minds in the business for one of the most distinguished gatherings of the communications industry. … Read More
For over a hundred years, doctors have been examining our middle ear essentially the same way. They’ve seated us down, inserted an otoscope or a similarly cold metallic device into our ear canal, pressed their eye against it and started to probe. To further test our hearing, they’d sometimes play various frequencies and ask us to verbalize how they had … Read More
Establishing and operating a cellular network in outer space is no simple matter. It requires taking already complicated technologies and adjusting them to otherworldly conditions. That’s the enormous undertaking of Nokia Bell Labs, which, along with NASA, is seeking to establish the first such network on the Moon. In previous blog posts, we examined the challenges of deploying an LTE/4G network on the … Read More
Nokia Bell Labs is boldly going where no one has gone before, building the first-ever LTE/4G network on the Moon. Working with NASA, Nokia aims to demonstrate how commercially available cellular technologies can be used and adapted for future space exploration and pave the way to a sustainable human presence on the Moon. But it’s not the first time that … Read More
A version of this story was published in Telecom Drive. Like the prospectors of old who dug deep into the ocean floor in search of oil and natural gas, today’s pioneers are on a quest to uncover this era’s great resource: data. It’s an apt analogy since data, like oil, is a reserve that proves valuable only if properly extracted … Read More
It was about three years ago that Guy Shemesh gazed around his office before a hiring drive and was struck by an unsettling realization: nearly all his Nokia colleagues looked alike. As with most high-tech offices around the world, the work force was very homogenous. In Israel, that translated into white, male and secular. Shemesh quickly grasped that something had … Read More
One of the biggest impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic has been the migration to remote working. This monumental disruption has forced us to adapt to new ways of learning, shopping, dining and communicating. But for many people, the most dramatic change has been the blurring of boundaries between the personal and the professional. Specifically, it has come in a sudden … Read More
When Stephan Litjens joined Nokia 25 years ago, he was eager to channel his entrepreneurial spirit into the newly liberalized telecom market in which private ownership was emerging and mobile networks were in their early days. In his native Netherlands, he worked in core networks, climbed radio towers and installed base stations, as he engaged in nearly every aspect of … Read More
There’s a widespread perception that the role of finance is to run a tight ship, know when to slam the brakes and be the authority figure that is there to say “no.” But Neville Kotval, who heads finance for Cloud and Network Services, says he sees his role as a business partner and enabler who helps stakeholders reach their destinations. … Read More
At the core of Cloud and Network Services sits the aptly named Core Networks business unit. It is responsible for designing, developing and getting to market the key technologies that operate the heart of a modern telecommunications network. And with more than 4,300 employees and a world leading portfolio, it makes up a very significant part of Nokia’s CNS business … Read More
A version of this story, focusing on the 5G elements of sustainability, was published in 5Gradar The telecom industry has long been saddled with a reputation of being wasteful. But in an era where sustainability has become a major corporate driving force, Nokia is among those now investing heavily in boosting productivity without further taxing the planet. Whether it’s enabling … Read More