Nokia’s virtualized EPC (evolved packet core) is a crucial element of WING, and its broader IoT services strategy, as it can be adapted to support the specific requirements of each vertical. The biggest element of the Finnish company’s series of pre-MWC launches was an upgrade to the managed version of its Cloud Packet Core, and this will be at the heart of the M2M Core which will be the brains of WING. Nokia said its enterprise and operator customers will be supported on a multi-tenanted basis, with each of them gaining access to their own segment of the virtualized core. That will enable those groups to support their users and devices as they move around the federated wireless grid. The…