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How it makes money
- Network equipment and software, including optical, Internet Protocol routing and switching, and fixed broadband products
- Mobile network equipment and software, including radio equipment and core network software
- Technology licensing
Competes with
What it sells6
Optical networking systems and pluggable optics
Equipment that sends data over fiber-optic cables, including links between data centers and across telecom networks.
Internet Protocol routers and switches
Equipment that directs data between networks and within data centers.
Optical Line Terminals
Equipment used by fixed-network providers to connect fiber broadband networks to customers.
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Doksuri remote radio heads
Radio equipment used in mobile networks to send and receive signals.
Cloud-native core software
Software telecom operators use to run the central functions of mobile networks.
Out-of-band management solution
Equipment for managing data-center networks separately from the main data traffic.
Who buys it4
- Telecom operators that buy equipment and software to build, upgrade, and run mobile and fixed broadband networks.
- Cloud and data-center companies that buy optical links, routers, and switches for data centers and connections between them.
- Mission-critical businesses and defense organizations that buy communications network equipment.
- Consumer electronics and multimedia companies that license Nokia technology.
What it stands on, and what could break it
What the business leans on
- 1Network equipment production depends on semiconductors and other components, including digital signal processors used in optical products.
- 2Optical product capacity depends in part on indium phosphide manufacturing and the ramp-up of Nokia's San Jose facility.
- 3Sales depend on telecom operators' network investment and on cloud and data-center companies' purchases of networking equipment.
What could go wrong
- 1Shortages or long lead times for semiconductors and optical components could limit Nokia's ability to supply network products.
- 2Scaling indium phosphide manufacturing and the wider optical supply chain could affect the timing and volume of optical product deliveries.
- 3Telecom sales face a flat market, while Nokia is deliberately reducing some consumer-premises fiber equipment business as it focuses on other products.
About Nokia Corp.
Nokia makes optical systems that carry data between data centers and across telecom networks, along with routers and switches that direct network traffic. It also sells equipment and software for mobile and fixed broadband networks. Nokia licenses technology standards to consumer electronics and multimedia companies.
- Head office
- Espoo, Finland
- Founded
- 1865
- Listed on
- NYSE
- Financial year ends
- December 31
Built from Nokia Corp.’s own filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Figures are as reported, with per-share history restated onto today’s share basis. This company files in EUR. Figures are converted to US dollars at $1.00 = 0.902450 EUR, the current rate, applied to every period alike — so growth and margins are the company’s own and not the exchange rate’s. This describes a business — it is not investment advice and not a recommendation to buy or sell anything.
