Communication is merely the starting point
Just as Bell Labs pioneered the first 100 years in the field of communications, we are preparing to lead the next 100 years of networking innovation. Bell Labs goes further than building better, more-efficient wireless and optical systems. It researches the fundamental technologies that will define networking for decades to come.
As we move into the 6G era, the network is becoming more than a mechanism for transmitting information. It is becoming a means of instilling the capabilities of sense, understanding and action into the technologies we use in everyday life.
6G
Lunar Network - The first cellular network on the Moon
Nokia is pushing the boundaries of space exploration by building an 4G/LTE network on the lunar surface.
Optical communication
World records are meant to be broken. Bell Labs goes further than building better, more-efficient wireless and optical systems.
UNEXT
5G-Advanced
Through the 3GPP standards body, Nokia is in the process of making 5G-Advanced happen. The first release of the 5G-Advanced era, Release 18, is due in 2024.
Distributed massive MIMO
Nokia Bell Labs is researching new MIMO technologies that will boost uplink capacity in 5G networks and help pave the way for 5G-Advanced.
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- Nokia, DOCOMO and NTT make two key 6G advances #MWC23
- Nokia to lead KOMSENS-6G, integrating sensing into the communications system
- Nokia to lead the next phase of Europe’s 6G flagship project
- Nokia radio technology to enable AST SpaceMobile’s direct-to-cell phone connectivity from space
- Nokia to lead German 6G lighthouse project
- Nokia showcases first 100Gb/second fiber broadband technology in the US
- Nokia, DOCOMO and NTT bring 6G vision to life
- Nokia and Vodafone showcase record-breaking 100 gigabit fiber broadband
Bell Labs’ Shahriar Shahramian discusses the Great 6G Ecosystem
In this talk at the Science in the Age of Experience conference, Nokia Bell Labs researcher Shahriar Shahramian shows how, over the last 75 years, engineers have been conquering the electromagnetic spectrum. Those efforts are culminating with 6G, which will be the first wireless technology to fuse the digital and physical worlds.
Bell Labs’ Shahriar Shahramian discusses the Great 6G Ecosystem
How glass fiber is shaping the internet
As part of the Verge’s in-depth look at the role of fiber optics in the internet, Bell Labs’ Tod Sizer and Vivian Chen describe the relentless pursuit of optical innovation necessary to keep pace with the world’s insatiable appetite for capacity.
How glass fiber is shaping the internet
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