Nokia announced the expansion of its partnership with NL ix, Europe’s largest distributed Internet exchange provider. Nokia will provide its most advanced 7750 SR-s platform, driven by FP5, which is its groundbreaking routing silicon. This deployment will enable NL ix to launch 400GE and 800GE access and interconnection services for its cloud providers and National Research and Education Network (NREN) customers.

Nokia FP5 is one of the earliest deployments in Europe. The high-capacity capabilities of 400GE and 800GE will accelerate the capabilities of NL ix, and meet current and future customers’ demands for faster access and interconnection services with lower costs and higher power efficiency. In the same space and power range, FP5 allows more than three times the capacity of Nokia FP4 hardware to be delivered.

The new deployment of the Nokia 7750 sr – 14 will enable NL ix to provide 800GE connectivity and increase the density of 400GE services in more than 100 European data centers it operates. This IP deployment complements the NL ix Europe wide low latency optical transmission network provided by Nokia in 2021.

Jan Paul Dekker, chief technology officer of NL ix, said: “Our existing relationship with Nokia began with the deployment and upgrade of our pan European optical transmission network. With the growing demand of customers for faster access and interconnection and optical transmission between data center locations, Nokia is a natural choice to help us develop IP networks to meet the needs of our diversified customer base. This upgrade enables us to provide customers who already need the lightning speed and ultra-high capacity provided by 800GE Provide services. “

Mark Vanderhaegen, account director of Nokia Webscale, said: “The rapid expansion of NL ix has made it one of the largest and fastest growing Internet exchange providers in the world. With this growth, customers’ demand for faster access and interconnection is also increasing. We are glad that NL ix has chosen Nokia’s market leading IP routing platform driven by FP5 silicon to upgrade its pan European IP network infrastructure to 800Gb/s.”