Nokia deployments with majority of world’s largest IXPs reflect push for scale, reliability and automation
30 Septiembre 2024 - 2:00AM
Press releaseNokia deployments with majority of world’s largest
IXPs reflect push for scale, reliability and automation
- Six of the world’s 10 largest IXPs have deployed Nokia
networking infrastructure and cumulatively carry close to 45 Tbps
of traffic during peak times
- Performance at scale, security and AI-enhanced operations of
Nokia IP, optical and DDoS solutions support buildouts of massive
cloud networks
- Stunning growth of regional clouds driven by unprecedented
latency, security and bandwidth pressures as global digital economy
flourishes
30 Sept 2024Espoo, Finland: Nokia today reaffirmed its
leadership and commitment to the global Internet Exchange market as
it continues to work with more than 20 Internet Exchange Providers
(IXPs), including six of the world’s 10 largest based on both peak
traffic and number of members. As the local interconnection points
for more than 5,000 member organizations, these six IXPs
cumulatively transport close to 45 Tbps of traffic during peak
times – a figure that’s set to grow as the Equinix Global
Interconnection Index (GXI) 2024 predicts a stunning 34% five-year
CAGR in interconnection bandwidth.
The expanding digital economy, proliferation of edge compute,
and anticipated move of latency-sensitive AI models to regional
clouds for local consumption are contributing to the need for what
the GXI calls an Interconnection Oriented Architecture® (IOA).
According to the GXI 2024 report, “The economics of data, density,
velocity and experience demand localized exchange to move the
highest volumes of data with the lowest latency to dense clusters
of participants and population centers.”
Built to handle these current and future pressures, the
characteristics of the Nokia IP, optical and security solutions
align to those identified in the IOA and are central to why the
Nokia portfolio has increasingly become the dominant choice of
leading IXPs.
The Nokia FP5 800GE technology, deployed by leading European
IXPs including Germany’s DE-CIX and the Netherlands’ NL-ix ,
provides the fastest possible performance in the industry and is
realizing dramatic sustainability gains. Since deploying this
technology, NL-ix has shown a reduction in power consumption from
0.8 watts to 0.1 watts per gigabit in parts of its network.
Thomas King, CTO at DE-CIX, said: “Nokia’s
800GE technology gives us the considerable runway needed to address
future traffic growth in a cost- and energy-efficient way. 800GE
optics consume the least amount of space and power per bit, and at
the same time it provides the most headroom for traffic peaks of
the future.”
Nokia has also played a leadership role in the standardization
of Ethernet Virtual Private Networks (EVPNs). With industry-leading
functionality and scalability, the SROS implementation of EVPN
provides IXPs an ideal toolset to manage the increase in traffic.
When Telehouse America selected Nokia to upgrade its NYIIX peering
exchange infrastructure in the US, it deployed the Nokia EVPN
solution to resolve multiple technical challenges.
Akio Sugeno, Vice President of Telehouse and founder
of NYIIX, said: “EVPN is
a game changer for us. It is a next-generation VPN solution that
provides a unified architecture, in both the control and data
planes, and solved many of our requirements. With our new EVPN
implementation from Nokia we police and control broadcast,
unknown-unicast and multicast traffic entering our network while
also rate-limiting ARP requests, so they do not flood our network.
With this same protocol, we are also able to implement load
balancing techniques between our edge and the customer’s network to
increase resiliency and network availability. Finally, with EVPN’s
auto-configuration capabilities we can simplify operational
complexity across the entire lifecycle of our VPNs.”
Additionally, the virulent rise in cybercrime has made anti-DDoS
solutions critical. Nokia partnered with NL-ix for an
industry-first deployment of an anti-DDoS solution that performs
mitigation directly on the router, avoiding dedicated scrubbing
centers that would push up transport costs and impact latency.
Nokia’s AI-enhanced Deepfield Defender actively detects DDoS
attacks and then instructs Nokia’s FP5 silicon to block those
packet flows without any impact on other router traffic.
Jan Hoogenboom, Founder and Chief Vision Officer at
NL-ix, said: “With this innovative anti-DDoS solution from
Nokia we can provide our customers with security across their
entire area of operations as we pursue our goal of zero enterprise
downtime. We are now a one-stop-shop for Europe-wide connectivity
and security, saving our customers the hassle of working with
multiple parties or making complex arrangements to be protected by
a third party.”
Vach Kompella, Senior Vice President and General Manager
of IP Networks business at Nokia, said: “As the nerve
centers of the Internet, the world’s largest IXPs are host to every
type of traffic and customer, and in response they have reset
expectations around networking innovation – driving the highest
levels of uptime, reliability and security with Nokia solutions. We
are proud to be the leading provider of networking infrastructure
solutions for these critical organizations.”
Nokia has won contracts with 23 IXPs, and has publicly announced
wins with Telehouse NYIIX, NL-ix, LINX, LINX NoVa, BIX, DE-CIX,
France-ix, ESpanix, LINX Nairobi, TOP-ix and TREX.
Resources and additional
information Webpage: 7750 Service Router |
NokiaWebpage: FP5 network processor | NokiaWebpage: Optical
networks | NokiaWebpage: Deepfield Defender | Nokia
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