Nokia Rolls Out Cloud Hardware Platform for Telcos
Nokia Networks officials are continuing their efforts to better compete with larger rivals like Ericsson and Huawei Technologies in the rapidly evolving telecommunications space.
Nokia in April announced plans to buy Alcatel-Lucent for $16.6 billion, a move that will give it greater scale against larger vendors and expand its capabilities in network-functions virtualization (NFV), a key technology being pushed and embraced by telecom operators. Now the company an infrastructure platform designed to help mobile network operators more easily adopt NFV and cloud computing.
The Finnish vendor's AirFrame Data Center Solution that includes pre-integrated racks of ultra-dense servers powered by Intel Xeon processors, network switches and software-defined storage capabilities. It also includes its own data center services and acceleration capabilities to speed up the performance of networking tasks, including Nokia's own virtual network functions, including OSS/CEM and the new Radio Cloud architecture.
