Kyndryl and Nokia announce alliance

Nokia and Kyndryl have announced a global network and edge computing alliance aimed at helping enterprise customers accelerate digital transformations with industrial-grade, reliable and secure LTE and 5G private wireless networking.

The partnership builds on a private wireless connectivity project combining the Nokia Digital Automation Cloud (DAC) application platform with Kyndryl’s consulting, design, implementation and managed services. The solution is designed to support the move to Industry 4.0, which is transforming how companies manufacture and distribute their products by interacting with IoT, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and other advances to their environments and operations.

The collaboration has already resulted in private LTE and 5G real-world deployments and several proof-of-concept applications for Dow to support Industry 4.0-enabled worker safety and collaboration, asset tracking and other capabilities using a blueprint that it plans to expand and deploy across its sites worldwide.

Nokia DAC is a digitisation service platform featuring industrial-grade private wireless connectivity and edge computing. Kyndryl and Nokia also plan to explore and develop integrated solutions and services for edge cloud, IP networking, optics, fixed access, 4G, and 5G core and network operations software technologies.

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