Nokia says ‘Xiaomi the money’

Nokia’s Chinese whispers continue with the announcement of a business collaboration agreement with Xiaomi, which includes some smartphone patent cross-licensing.
The business collaboration is not, as you could be forgiven for presuming, around smartphones however. Instead Nokia is providing a bunch of networking gear, including IP routing and datacenter interconnect equipment, apparently intended to help Xiaomi serve large ISPs and datacenter players. Who knew?
The smartphone patent cross