Case Study: Nokia scales Wi-Fi connectivity to millions of devices with MongoDB Atlas

Nokia scales Wi‑Fi connectivity to 4.5 million devices with MongoDB Atlas

Nokia, a telecommunications company, faced challenges scaling its Corteca Home Controller cloud platform, which manages Wi-Fi connectivity for millions of devices. Their legacy relational database lacked stability, required manual management, and struggled to handle massive volumes of real-time data without downtime. This prompted a search for a more robust solution, leading them to the vendor MongoDB and its product MongoDB Atlas.

By implementing MongoDB Atlas, Nokia gained a flexible and scalable database solution with built-in time series capabilities. This allowed them to efficiently store and query both operational and time-series data. The results were significant; the platform scaled from managing 500,000 to over 4.5 million devices with zero downtime. MongoDB's solution also made it easy to onboard new telecommunications customers, supporting the platform's global growth to 75 customers while improving performance and reducing operational effort.

Nokia