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Nokia is a Finnish multinational that supplies the network infrastructure used by telecom operators, enterprises and governments. Its portfolio covers mobile radio access networks, fixed broadband access, optical and internet protocol transport, network management and automation software, and the licensing of a large portfolio of telecommunications patents. Although widely remembered for the mobile phones it once made, the company today is principally a network infrastructure business.
Nokia was founded in 1865 as a pulp mill in southwestern Finland and evolved through rubber, cable and electronics before becoming a telecommunications company. It is headquartered in Espoo, Finland and is listed on the Helsinki and New York exchanges. The company employs roughly 75,000 people worldwide. Its scale in network equipment grew substantially through the acquisition of Alcatel Lucent in 2016, which brought with it Bell Labs, the industrial research organisation whose work underpins much of modern communications and computing.
The business is organised around several units. Mobile Networks supplies radio access equipment and software to operators deploying 4G and 5G. Network Infrastructure covers fixed access, optical networks and internet protocol routing. Cloud and Network Services covers core networks, operations software and the professional services that integrate them. Nokia Technologies manages the patent licensing business, which generates significant revenue from the company's standards essential intellectual property.
Nokia has increasingly sold directly to enterprises as well as operators, supplying private wireless networks to industrial sites, ports, mines and utilities where reliable coverage and deterministic performance matter more than consumer scale. This has opened a distinct engineering and commercial track alongside the traditional carrier business.
Patent licensing is a meaningful part of the company rather than a side activity. Nokia holds tens of thousands of patent families covering cellular standards, video coding and multimedia, and it negotiates licences with handset makers, automotive manufacturers and consumer electronics companies. The revenue is comparatively stable and funds a research base larger than the company's product lines alone would support.
Engineering work at the company covers embedded and real time systems for radio and optical hardware, large scale distributed software for core and cloud native network functions, routing and switching software, radio and photonics research, and the automation and analytics layers that operators use to run networks with fewer manual interventions. Bell Labs continues to run long horizon research programmes in areas including optical transmission, network architecture and applied artificial intelligence.
India is one of Nokia's largest engineering and delivery locations, with major sites in Bengaluru, Chennai, Noida and Hyderabad covering research and development, global delivery and manufacturing at its Chennai facility. Roles span software and embedded engineering, hardware and radio frequency design, network planning and integration, solution architecture, service delivery, product management and research.
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