Nokia today announced a strategic partnership with Supermicro, a global leader in Application-Optimized Total IT Solutions, to help cloud providers, hyperscalers, enterprises and CSPs deploy high-performance, AI-optimized data center networking solutions. By combining Supermicro’s advanced switching hardware with Nokia’s data center automation and network operating system, the companies will deliver a fully integrated data center networking solution built for AI, high-performance computing (HPC), and cloud environments.
Data centers are at an inflection point, driven by the growing demands of AI and cloud workloads. Meeting these challenges requires a new approach—one that puts networking at the center of data center architecture, with a focus on performance, scalability, and automation. The collaboration between these leaders in networking, compute and storage supports this shift and will accelerate innovation across modern IP and data center networks.
The combined solution includes Supermicro’s 800G Ethernet switching platforms integrated with Nokia’s Service Router Linux (SR Linux) Network Operating System (NOS) and Nokia’s Event-Driven Automation (EDA) as the infrastructure platform to automate the entire data center network lifecycle from Day 0 design, Day 1 deployment to Day 2+ daily operations. End-users will benefit from a pre-validated, turnkey solution that reduces deployment time, cuts operational costs, and improves overall efficiency.
Read the full announcement here.