Nokia has announced three new high-capacity products in its AirScale base station portfolio, which represent its most confident refresh of its flagship offering since disaster struck its initial 5G platform launch in 2018. Since then, Nokia has been seeking to rebuild confidence in its most important products, having lost key contracts (and a CEO) because of price/performance issues with its first base station chips. Its new offerings feature the latest iteration of its ReefShark system-on-chip, and the launch gained extra impact with the announcement of an expanded deal with UK operator Virgin Media O2 (VMO2), for the latest Habrok-based networks. Nokia has been steadily phasing out products based on the original 5G system-on-chip (SoC), in favor of the new architecture,…