Nokia and Gati Shakti University will team up on research opportunities in 5G/6G communications targeting air, land and sea transportation use cases, standards development, smart factory/automation and AI/GenAI laboratories.

"This MoU further strengthens the university's industry-driven approach to actively collaborate with industry stakeholders for a developed India," Union Minister of Railways, Communications and IT Ashwini Vaishnav said in a statement.

The collaboration specifically has a research focus on leveraging Nokia's network as a code platform with a developer portal and digital twins for transportation and logistics sectors, fiber sensing and AI, and optical network planning.

The Network as Code platform with developer portal reflects Nokia's strategic focus to drive new business models and unlock the potential that the network can deliver in terms of innovation, sustainability and productivity.

"The collaboration with Nokia will accelerate technology-enabled progress in the transportation and logistics sector as well as the telecommunications sector," said Professor Manoj Chaudhary, Vice-Chancellor, Gati Shakti University.

The collaboration with GSV is the latest in a series of recent partnerships between Nokia and the Indian research community. In October 2023, Nokia established a 6G lab at its Global R&D Center in Bengaluru.