Nokia was later than some rivals to put much weight behind the software-as-a-service) model for both fixed and mobile communications services, but has made up for lost time over the past year. The company has been hyperactive since announcing its effective entry into the SaaS field almost a year ago in November 2021, when it launched multiple components aimed at telcos, although Nokia described this then as a natural evolution of its existing everything-as-a-service (XaaS) approach to provision. The company had begun by reshaping its applications software for a cloud-native environment, making it deployable at the network edge as well as in public or private clouds. Nokia had decided that with improvements in software development methods around microservices and continuous…