Nokia has launched a new Cloud Collaboration Hub in Singapore – the first of several planned worldwide - aimed at providing multivendor cloud planning and development services to operators.
The vendor also plans to open a hub in Texas in the US in February and in Reading in the UK at a later date.
Nokia said the planned global network of hubs will include a multivendor lab setup to help operators conceive, develop and execute tailored cloud use cases and help them transition to a cloud-based infrastructure.
The hubs will provide services for Nokia specific, multivendor and open source cloud solutions, backed by Nokia's partner ecosystem of cloud providers. They serve as an evolution of the Nokia Cloud Design Center, which launched in the UK in 2016.
The hubs will be supported by a network of cloud delivery centers for industrialized infrastructure staging and delivery, with a new delivery center expected to launch in India shortly.
“We are excited to announce the first of our network of Cloud Collaboration Hubs. This represents the next phase of our cloud professional services offering,” Nokia head of systems integration for global services Deepak Harie said.
“The Cloud Collaboration Hub model helps make services tangible, and accelerates operators' move towards becoming digital service providers."