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
“Nokia Networks is changing the game in telco cloud. We are taking on the IT-telco convergence with a new solution to challenge the traditional IT approach of the data center. From the beginning, Nokia Networks has been a forerunner in telco cloud innovation*. This newest solution brings telcos carrier-grade high availability, security-focused reliability as well as low latency, while leveraging the company’s deep networks expertise and strong business with operators to address an increasingly cloud-focused market valued in the tens of billions of euros,” stated Marc Rouanne, Executive Vice President, Mobile Broadband, Nokia Networks.
