Nokia has had a challenging time in the past few months. Having asserted leadership in some key 5G enablers in 2018, including virtualized RAN and network processors, its homegrown base station system-on-chip ran into expensive problems and it had some teething troubles with early 5G deployments. A change of CEO, and of SoC strategy, are among the remedies it put in place last month, and since then, it has been releasing a steady stream of positive technical news, clearly designed to impress upon customers and partners that the tide has turned in its 5G platform. One of the most interesting is a boost to the capacity of its 5G AirScale base station, in tests that delivered about 3Gbps total downlink…