“Specifically with AI, the front-end networks and the backend networks are evolving,” Vinai explains. “Some of them are still backend InfiniBand, but Ethernet’s coming onto the scene with UEC and similar technologies.”
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He adds: “Our goal is to get human error to zero. Automation has become the big thing in data centres and that has been a very large area of focus for us.”
In order to have this kind of cloudnative networking solution, data centres will need an operating system that operates within the same area as its automation systems. Nokia aims to address this requirement through its SR Linux operating system
and EDA management automation workflow engines.
“Streaming telemetry becomes a very key piece of it,” Vinai says. “We’ve basically used cloud-native
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