Nokia and Budapest Internet exchange point (BIX) recently announced that BIX has successfully deployed the Nokia 7750 SR IP edge routing platform for the modernization of the BIX backbone router network, which will enhance the high-speed and reliable IP connectivity of BIX customers in Central Europe and the Balkans. BIX provides internet peer-to-peer services from regional POPs in Budapest and Vienna.
The Nokia SR platform using FP5 chips provides BIX with highly scalable capacity, unparalleled performance, security, and lower energy consumption. The 800GE capability of FP5 for the future will support seamless upgrades from the 400GE interface, enabling BIX to sustainably meet future needs at lower costs. Nokia’s system design innovation is combined with the industry recognized Business Router Operating System (SR OS) to ensure the network speed, flexibility, and reliability of the 7750 SR system, thereby achieving deterministic capacity expansion and extending the service life of deployed systems.
Attila Miszori, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Hungarian Internet Provider Council (BIX Owners and Operators), stated: “Nokia and its IP solutions are a Natural selection to help us modernize our backbone router platform, enabling us to meet growing capacity requirements and provide our members with an improved experience in a very sustainable way. BIX members will benefit from high-speed connectivity with low latency and high reliability at the main BIX locations.”
Ivo Lansky, Senior Director of Nokia IP Business, stated: “We are pleased that BIX has chosen Nokia’s IP routing technology to enhance its connectivity capabilities to support the needs of service provider members in the region. Nokia FP5 is a key component of BIX’s choice of Nokia, as it can not only build higher capacity IP networks, but also accelerate BIX’s ability to sustainably meet future traffic growth at lower costs with its future oriented 800GE capabilities.”