{"id":159754,"date":"2025-11-14T08:41:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T08:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/?p=159754"},"modified":"2025-12-11T12:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T12:19:10","slug":"nokia-strengthens-ai-data-center-performance-and-ai-enabled-automation-with-enhanced-portfolio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/2025\/11\/14\/nokia-strengthens-ai-data-center-performance-and-ai-enabled-automation-with-enhanced-portfolio\/","title":{"rendered":"Nokia strengthens AI data center performance and AI-enabled automation with enhanced portfolio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Nokia has expanded its data center networking portfolio to meet the growing performance needs of AI workloads while adding new AI-driven automation capabilities.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nokia is expanding and enhancing its data center networking portfolio to meet the increasing performance and scalability demands of connecting AI workloads while leveraging the power of AI to drive more efficiency and reliability into data center operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company is introducing its new family of 7220 Interconnect Router (IXR) high-performance data center switches along with an enhanced suite of Artificial Intelligence for Operations (AIOps) tools for its Event-Driven Automation (EDA) management platform. Together, these innovations deliver the extreme performance and reliability required to support advanced AI training and inference workloads driven by increasing demand for agentic AI applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The emergence and widespread adoption of agentic AI-enabled applications is reshaping data center requirements prompting a rapid evolution in networking solutions. AI is driving these advancements which present a dual opportunity for network innovation and operational transformation. These are exactly the forces behind the most recent developments in Nokia\u2019s data center switching portfolio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur partnership with Nokia continues to deliver meaningful operating advantages amid the accelerating pace of AI innovation. With Nokia\u2019s technology, Nscale strengthens its ability to deliver for our shared customers. This announcement further extends Nokia\u2019s leadership and reinforces our confidence that together we\u2019re best serving the needs of customers who rely on advanced AI technology,\u201d said Tom Burke, Chief Revenue Officer, Nscale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe 1.6 TE interface speeds on Nokia\u2019s new family of 7220 IXR switches hit a sweet spot in the market as agentic AI compels a change in data center networking requirements. Agentic AI-powered AIOps on Nokia\u2019s EDA platform is timely driving increased operational efficiency and reliability in a demanding network environment. Also great to see Nokia\u2019s commitment to the UEC as 650 Group analysis projects Ethernet will be the dominant networking protocol for AI moving forward,\u201d said Alan Weckel, Founder &amp; Technology Analyst at 650 Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Scalable performance and flexibility for AI data centers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To address the massive demands for scalability and high performance in AI data centers, Nokia\u2019s 7220 IXR-H6 switches deliver exceptional throughput reaching up to 102.4 Tb\/s with interface speeds at 800 GE (Gigabit Ethernet) and 1.6 TE doubling throughput and interface speeds within the same footprint. The switches are compliant with Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC) specifications bringing advanced features designed to optimize and manage packet flows, avoid congestion and drive network efficiency across large-scale AI factory environments of up to one million XPUs and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Nokia 7220 IXR-H6 family offers unparalleled flexibility for a diverse range of deployment scenarios. Available in both liquid-cooled and air-cooled variants, the switches can be seamlessly integrated and are compliant with various data center rack configurations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nokia is the only vendor offering hardware that supports both an embedded Network Operating System (NOS) and SONiC. The new switches can be configured with Nokia\u2019s SR Linux network operating system (NOS) or open-source Community SONiC providing data center operators with greater choice in software solutions. Backed by Nokia\u2019s expert development and support organization, operators can proceed with confidence knowing they have reliable options tailored to their specific infrastructure needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>AI-enabled network operations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the pressing need to deliver always-on services, cloud service providers and enterprises alike are prioritizing automation, AIOps and modernization strategies to reduce downtime and ensure resilient performance throughout the data center network operations lifecycle. To address these requirements in today\u2019s environment of increasing operational scale and complexity, Nokia is introducing innovative agentic AI-enabled capabilities into its Event-Driven Automation (EDA) platform. EDA AIOps combines the simplicity of natural language interactions with the reasoning power of agentic AI to unlock fast and accurate issue identification, root cause analysis and remediation across the data center networking environment. When combined with EDA\u2019s extensive real-time telemetry, integrated digital twin, dry-run and instant roll-back capabilities, network operators can move fast to address issues with confidence realizing a 96% reduction in data center network downtime according to Bell Labs Consulting and Futurum\u2019s recent report Data center fabric reliability study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe astonishing growth in AI adoption has led to a dramatic overhaul in how data centers operate and is driving constant evolution in hardware and operational tools. We are pleased to announce our new family of high-performance 7220 IXR-H6 switches along with advances in our EDA platform which now leverages the sophistication of agentic AI to drive highly reliable network operations at the speed required to keep up with the pace of change. Today marks one of many milestones for Nokia\u2019s data center networking portfolio and we look forward to bringing even more technology innovation to our global customer base to support the AI super-cycle,\u201d said Vach Kompella, Senior Vice President &amp; General Manager of IP Networks business, Nokia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nokia has expanded its data center networking portfolio to meet the growing performance needs of AI workloads while adding new AI-driven automation capabilities. 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