Nokia expands pact with Microsoft for data centre routers, switches

Nokia connected Thursday announced a five-year enlargement of its multi-year statement to proviso Microsoft Azure with information centre routers and switches.

Nokia's information centre networking portfolio volition heighten the scalability and reliability of Azure information centres astir the world. The concern volition turn Nokia's planetary footprint to implicit 30 countries and fortify its relation arsenic a strategical supplier for Microsoft's worldwide unreality infrastructure.

As portion of the expansion, Nokia volition proviso its 7250 IXR-10e level to present multi-terabit-scale interconnectivity wrong Microsoft's information centres.

Nokia volition besides proceed to present its customized developed absorption apical of rack power that is utilized extensively passim the Azure network, said the company

The Nokia SONiC-based information centre routers and switches volition beryllium deployed some successful greenfield locations and utilized successful enactment of Microsoft's migration from 100GE to 400GE connectivity wrong existing facilities.

“As a effect of this caller deal, Nokia volition further summation the scalability and reliability of Microsoft Azure information centres astir the world. This triumph affirms Nokia's committedness to being a strategical supplier for tier 1 hyperscaler companies, and highlights that our multi-year strategical investments and attack person enactment america connected the close trajectory,” said Vach Kompella, SVP and General Manager of IP Networks concern astatine Nokia.

This volition alteration Microsoft to conscionable expanding postulation demands for years to travel with Nokia's exceptional networking show and reliability. Deployment of the Nokia 7250 IXR-10e volition statesman successful February.

David Maltz, Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Azure Networking, said arsenic leaders successful the advancement of unreality compute, we are continuously expanding our planetary footprint to enactment the monolithic maturation successful compute workloads.
“Over the past six years, we person worked with Nokia's engineers to make their routers moving SONiC to rapidly beforehand our enlargement astatine the prime our customers demand,” helium added.