Nokia plans to incorporate Open Compute Project (OCP) designs into its AirFrame Data Center Portfolio, aiming to offer greater efficiency, density, cooling and power usage effectiveness.
OCP-based variants for computing, network and storage will be developed in line with OCP specifications, but taking into account the specific needs of the telco domain such as regulatory requirements, Direct Current (DC) power feeding and electromagnetic shielding.
Nokia said it plans to offer a full end-to-end data center solution for telco, IT and enterprise customers, with cloud wise services supporting design and deployment. The OCP-based variants will complement the already available AirFrame rackmount servers launched in June 2015, offering complete flexibility, scalability and reliability for smaller and more distributed data center deployments.
“Nokia’s vast experience, competence and scale will redefine OCP specifications for carrier-grade performance, and we are delighted to extend our collaboration with Facebook and the Open Compute Project. This will ensure that our customers fully benefit from OCP solution efficiencies and performance, as well as the OCP ecosystem, for what is seen as the industry benchmark in hyperscale data center deployments. We see our input into OCP as being vital to ensure data centers can handle the most demanding of workloads,” stated Henri Tervonen, head of Mobile Broadband Architecture at Nokia.
Nokia Launches its AirFrame Data Center Servers and Switches
Nokia unveiled its AirFrame Data Center Solution for combining the benefits of cloud computing technologies with the stringent requirements of the core and radio in the telco world.
The Nokia AirFrame Data Center Solution is the company’s foundation for meeting the latency and data processing requirements of the future, including 5G and distributed cloud applications. The portfolio is build around highly integrated, Intel-based servers and switches that are optimized for low-latency, scalability, flexibility and business agility.
Key advantages of AirFrame:
- Offers significant efficiency gains when running data-demanding telco applications like mobile network Virtual Network Functions (VNFs)
- Fully compliant with IT standards and able to run the most common IT cloud applications in parallel to telco cloud
- Enables operators to implement not only their NFV strategy, but also expand into new business models, such as renting data center capacity for customers’ IT applications
- Implements the most advanced telco cloud security practices, which have been tested and approved at the Nokia Security Center in Berlin
- Adheres to Nokia Networks’ open standards approach as well as complies with ETSI NFV, ensuring the success of telco cloud deployments
- Ready for 5G, with an advanced cloud management solution to handle the telco cloud architecture (centralized / distributed), including security orchestration which automates and manages the lifecycle of security policies and security functions
- Ready to support several Nokia VNFs, including OSS/CEM and the company’s recently announced Radio Cloud architecture
AirFrame components include:
- Nokia AirFrame Cloud Servers and Switches – Pre-integrated racks with ultra-dense servers, high performance switches and software defined storage, including Nokia Networks specific enhancements that make it more efficient than other solutions to run demanding VNFs
- Data center services – AirFrame is complemented by a suite of professional services provided by the company’s services experts and geared to implement, monitor and operate telco cloud data centers
