The Finnish telephone equipment manufacturer Nokia announced Thursday the opening of its
"European center of excellence in cybersecurity"
in Lannion (Côtes d'Armor), in a press release.
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The launch of this center is intended to
"support the development of 5G and the virtualization of networks"
, explains the group. The center is based in Lannion, the French epicenter of research in telecommunications technologies. Its creation was announced by Nokia in October 2020, when the group unveiled projects reducing the impact of its plan of 1,233 job cuts in France. A little more than 400 workstations on the Lannion site were concerned. After a very strong mobilization of employees and Breton elected officials in particular, Nokia had reduced this figure, with
"nearly 250 positions preserved"
mainly in the development of 5G (162 in Lannion and 85 in Nozay in Essonne).
"A hundred positions (are) open to recruitment to strengthen existing teams,"
said Nokia Thursday on the occasion of the official launch of the center.
Safety and prevention
The establishment must "
make it possible both to improve and secure the critical infrastructure networks and the assets"
of Nokia customers, operators and companies, and also to help them
"improve their prevention, detection and response capacities. threats ”
.
The city of Lannion, 20,000 inhabitants, is one of the high places in French telecoms history.
In December, the State participated in the revitalization of the Lannion cluster by supporting the project of the Institute for Technological Research (IRT), which aims to
"develop a sovereign offer for private 5G networks"
, via funding from 30 million euros over seven years.
