Nokia
today announced that it will incorporate OCP designs into its AirFrame
Data Center Portfolio. AirFrame is inspired by OCP to offer greater
efficiency, density, cooling and power usage effectiveness, key
characteristics that have already saved Facebook over $2 billion in
infrastructure costs in the past three years. These characteristics will
significantly lower the cost of operations and enable enhanced
serviceability, while delivering carrier-grade quality on an open IT
platform.
OCP-based
variants for computing, network and storage will be developed in line
with OCP specifications, but taking into account the specific needs of
the telco domain such as regulatory requirements, Direct Current (DC)
power feeding and electromagnetic shielding. Nokia is also planning to
become an OCP solution provider with the ability to offer a full
end-to-end data center solution for telco, IT and enterprise customers,
with cloud wise services supporting design and deployment. The OCP-based
variants will complement the already available AirFrame rackmount
servers launched in June 2015, offering complete flexibility,
scalability and reliability for smaller and more distributed data center
deployments.
Nokia
has also announced additional acceleration options for its AirFrame
portfolio. As well as crypto acceleration that offers up to 100% higher
application performance for IP security (IPSec) loads, AirFrame servers
can now be equipped with a packet acceleration that will deliver over
10% more processing capacity and up to 50% lower packet latency,
critical for telco-based workloads and for the evolution to cloud-based
radio.
Henri Tervonen, head of Mobile Broadband Architecture at Nokia,
said: "Nokia's vast experience, competence and scale will redefine OCP
specifications for carrier-grade performance, and we are delighted to
extend our collaboration with Facebook and the Open Compute Project.
This will ensure that our customers fully benefit from OCP solution
efficiencies and performance, as well as the OCP ecosystem, for what is
seen as the industry benchmark in hyperscale data center deployments. We
see our input into OCP as being vital to ensure data centers can handle
the most demanding of workloads."
Jason Taylor, President and Chairman of the OCP Board and VP of Infrastructure at Facebook, said: "We
deeply value Nokia's leadership in bringing designs from the Open
Compute Project into their new AirFrame variants. As telco participation
in open hardware grows, Nokia will play a crucial role in defining the
future of data center efficiencies, performance, and scale."
