Nokia and NL-ix have entered into a strategic partnership to upgrade the optical transport network for Europe's largest distributed internet exchange, the Finnish vendor said on Tuesday.
The upgrade is aimed at providing metro access and backbone transport for all NL-ix customer traffic across Europe. It will enable multi-terabit optical links to significantly increase capacity between its European POPs which will significantly benefit customers.
NL-ix customers will benefit significantly
from the upgrade as it enables multi-terabit optical links to significantly
increase capacity between its European POPs.
Nokia will supply its optical transport
solutions to provide a new optical layer over NL-ix's meshed interconnection
fabric to enable seamless capacity growth link scaling.
The new network will support client services
from 1 Gigabit per second (Gb/sec) to 400 Gb/sec. NL-ix will also benefit from
reduced operating expenses and optimized capital expenditures through
simplified and streamlined end-to-end service operations.
Jan Paul Dekker, CTO at NL-ix, said: 'This
strategic partnership with Nokia highlights NL-ix's commitment to delivering
even higher capacity pan-European optical links between our POPs in the
Netherlands and beyond. The modularity of Nokia's next-generation optical
transport solutions enables us to adapt and respond quickly to market demand
and provide an even better quality of service and connectivity experiences for
our customers.
Nokia is a proven and trusted partner and is
our preferred choice to transform our European optical backbone network.'
Mark Vanderhaegen, Director of Webscale
Accounts at Nokia, said: 'NL-ix is growing fast and attracting new members to
become one of the largest internet exchanges in the world. The growth in
international interconnection needs of its customers means that NL-ix requires
higher capacity links between its European locations. Nokia is proud to have
been chosen to provide its market-leading WDM/OTN technology and solutions to
upgrade NL-ix's optical transport network.'
Nokia's broad portfolio of optical networking
hardware and software will be used for the upgrade. This includes the Nokia
1830 PSS (Photonic Service Switch) and the Nokia PSI-M (Photonic Service
Interconnect - Modular) family of WDM/OTN platforms, powered by its PSE-3s
(Photonic Service Engine) coherent DSP technology.