- Nokia joins 500-member OCP at Platinum level as scale and pace of AI supercycle require industry collaboration on open, interoperable AI networking innovation.
- OCP participation builds on Nokia alliances with industry leaders, centered on high-performance solutions that solve AI complexity in modern networks.
- Nokia OCP collaboration will focus on optimizing space, cost and power efficiency with delivery of standards-driven technology that scale up, out, and across distributed infrastructures, and extend to the network edge.
Nokia today announced its Platinum-level membership in the Open Compute Project (OCP), accelerating its efforts to deliver the next generation of open, scalable and intelligent networks that will power the AI-driven future. Being part of the 500-member OCP organization further deepens Nokia’s commitment to solving complex AI challenges, working with infrastructure operators and vendors to deliver open, standards-based networking solutions.
Designed for the relatively predictable and conventional world of enterprise traffic, data center architectures are bending under the weight of AI workloads. Today, the data center and network edge—where AI traffic connects to the internet—are reaching the limits of their capacity, power and scalability. Despite technology innovation that delivers faster compute and connectivity, AI’s exponential growth increasingly requires the interconnection of multiple data centers and scaling resources across physical sites.
This is the focus of Nokia’s collaboration, using its deep expertise in optical and IP layer integration to scale distributed architectures; AI-native wireless to enhance consumer and enterprise experiences; efficient PON out-of-band management; advanced optical systems for inter-data-center connectivity, high-speed optical interconnects that improve compute-to-compute performance and energy efficiency; and AI-driven network operations.
We are pleased to welcome Nokia to the Open Compute Project (OCP) Community as a Platinum Member. Data Center (DC) operators are seeking dependable, efficient and open adoptable technologies to build and scale their AI Clusters, scaling-up and out within their DCs and scaling across DCs. As a leading industry player, Nokia will bring valuable expertise to the OCP Community, collaborating to drive innovation while reducing development time, costs and complexity for all industry participants.
As AI reshapes data center architectures, we are excited to join the Open Compute Project Community as a Platinum member. The design and delivery of new solutions will require open standards, innovation and collaboration between data center technology vendors and operators. We look forward to working with OCP Community members, to bring new ideas that meet the highest levels of scale, reliability and efficiency to AI data centers and edge operations.
Nokia’s data center networking solutions include high-performance switches and optics that ramp up connectivity inside the data centers, and IP and optical technologies that interconnect in, from, and between data centers. The comprehensive portfolio delivers unmatched performance, scalability and efficiency for the most demanding environments.
Resources and additional information
Web Page: Data center networks
Web Page: Optical networks
Web Page: IP networks
Blog: Nokia Deepens Commitment to Open Innovation as AI Initiatives Scale in the Data Center and to the Edge, by Pallavi Mahajan
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