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Manish notes.“ This reduces pressure on the grid – you put it in a remote place, run it on sustainable energy and then you have the potential to meet the workload requirements.
“ Now you need a very reliable network because you’ ve put the data centre far from the users.”
Nokia was selected by Nscale at the end of 2024 to build an IP network for its new sustainable data centre to support AI workloads. The data centre, which is powered by renewable energy and optimised for energy-efficient cooling, will enable cutting-edge AI services, including Graphics Processing Unit as a Service( GPUaaS).
Manish adds:“ Connectivity to other data centres and to the users is critical. That’ s where Nokia comes in as a networking company.
“ Inside the data centre you need reliable connectivity. Our IP optical solutions fit very nicely here. We’ re trying to solve all the needs, not just one part of it.”
Looking ahead, the company plans to leverage its existing relationships and new Infinera acquisition to expand its presence with cloud providers. The telco is working with cloud builders worldwide to build modern data centre networks that are highly reliable, secure and easy to operate.
Part of these plans involve Nokia extending its five-year deal with Microsoft Azure in 2024 to to supply Microsoft Azure data centre networks. The expansion sees Nokia supplying Azure with data centre routers and switches, with the telco’ s data centre networking portfolio looking to enhance the scalability and reliability of Azure’ s global data centres.
This also hopes to advance Nokia’ s role as a strategic supplier of Microsoft’ s worldwide cloud infrastructure.
“ We’ ve announced publicly our Microsoft win on the IP side,” Vinai says.“ We’ re now hoping to use the Infinera acquisition as an accelerator to advance our data centre networking portfolio with other hyperscalers and major cloud providers too.”
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