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Mavenir 5G Core powers ice Norway Network Slicing for Norwegian Armed Forces services to B2B , B2C or public organisations . Dedicated network slices can be designed to meet specified needs and applications , and quickly and easily deployed and managed , and used to deliver new and innovative services and applications .
Mavenir , a cloud-native network infrastructure provider , is delivering the full 5G core network for ice , Norway ’ s third largest mobile operator to enable a network slicing service .
ice is utilising its new 5G standalone ( SA ) network to provide a dedicated network slice for the Norwegian Armed Forces , designed to deliver the specific service levels required by military communications . Essentially an isolated network-within-a-network , the Armed Forces will have exclusive use and control over their slice nationwide . It will be able to establish secure end-to-end communications across the network .
Mavenir ’ s 5G mobile core is designed ready for network operators to enable network slicing for providing disruptive
Mavenir ’ s cloud-native 5G SA network is fully containerised , runs on any cloud service and designed with a microservices approach , giving the flexibility to address evolving customer needs in a scalable way .
“ This deployment of network slicing is realising the true value of 5G ,” said Tore Kristoffersen , VP Service Delivery Platforms for ice . “ We now have myriad possible new business cases to present to our enterprise customers , which can be tailored to precise service level agreements , ensuring the best and most cost-effective use of resources .”
Nebius to triple capacity at Finland data centre to 75MW
Nebius , an AI infrastructure company , has announced that it will triple the capacity of its data centre in Mäntsälä , Finland .
The current expansion phase will enable Nebius to place up to 60,000 GPUs at the Mäntsälä location alone , with annual revenue potential of over US $ 1 billion at full capacity utilisation .
The expansion of the Finnish data centre – a location with strong green credentials – is part of Nebius ’ programme to invest more than US $ 1 billion in AI infrastructure in Europe by mid-2025 .
Nebius is already one of the leading providers of GPU capacity in Europe through the Mäntsälä data centre . The expansion in Finland will include the deployment of NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs , which will be available to customers from November 2024 , in addition to already installed NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs that form the backbone of Nebius ’ fleet of NVIDIA GPUs .
Nebius will also be one of the first providers in Europe to bring the energy-efficient NVIDIA Blackwell platform to customers in 2025 .
With a Power Usage Effectiveness ( PUE ) as low as 1.1 under high IT loads , the data centre significantly outperforms the global average of 1.58 . It also utilises free cooling , reducing reliance on chillers and refrigerants and incorporates a heat recovery system to repurpose server heat for local residential heating .
This system currently recovers approximately 20,000MWh of energy annually , heating the equivalent of 2,500 Finnish homes . Expansion of the data centre will further increase the efficiency of the heat recovery programme .
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