Nokia inks RAN collaboration with leading cloud providers Google, Microsoft Azure and AWS link up with comms tech giant to utilise cloud and open radio access network technology to develop new customer-focused 5G use cases Share this item with your network: By Published: 15 Mar 2021 16:25 Nokia has signed technology agreements with the leading cloud providers to research and enable cloud radio access network (vRAN) and Open RAN (O-RAN) technologies, market-ready 4G and 5G private wireless use cases and cloud-based 5G radio systems. With Amazon Web Services (AWS), Nokia is pursuing a strategy of collaboration to extend the reach of its vRAN technologies to support 5G deployments and the development of new use cases. The trials, to be conducted at Nokia’s facilities, will aim to develop proofs of concept to explore and enable vRAN and related technologies such as O-RAN to support the development of new customer-focused 5G technology.