Nokia struck a trio of deals with the market’s largest hyperscalers Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud to advance the 5G, radio access network (RAN), and edge markets.

The deal with AWS is for research and development on cloud RAN (vRAN) and open RAN (O-RAN) technologies to support customer-focused 5G platforms. It will combine Nokia’s RAN and edge work with AWS’ Outposts platform and target service providers and enterprises. Nokia said it will be able to leverage AWS services like Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Outposts, and Local Zones.

With Microsoft, Nokia is working to develop 4G LTE and 5G private wireless use cases targeting the enterprise space. It will combine Nokia’s vRAN and multi-access edge cloud (MEC) with the Azure Private Edge Zone platform and developer ecosystem.

The Google Cloud deal combines Nokia’s various RAN and edge cloud platforms with Google’s edge computing systems running on its Anthos platform. The initial work is focused on integrating Nokia’s 5G virtual distributed unit (vDU) and virtualized centralized unit (vCU) with Google’s edge platform and testing the Nokia 5G standalone network (SA) with vCU and 5G core running on Anthos in a cloud-native deployment. Nokia is also testing its AirFrame Open Edge hardware to run with Anthos.

Google Cloud and Nokia earlier this year expanded past work to jointly develop and sell cloud-native network functions, 5G edge services, and a 5G core to mobile operators. That agreement came three months after Nokia said it will move its on-premises IT infrastructure to Google Cloud.

The trio of new agreements come on the heels of Nokia being called out by AT&T as part of a successful vRAN test riding on Nokia’s cloud-based vRAN 2.0 system as a key enabler of AT&T’s O-RAN vision. The trial initiated an end-to-end layer 3 data call using a fully virtualized cloud RAN.