Dell is preferred infrastructure partner for AirFrame servers; Nokia’s Digital Automation Cloud is Dell’s preferred private wireless platform
Dell Technologies and Nokia have extended their strategic partnership. Each will use the other’s expertise and solutions, including infrastructure from Dell and private wireless connectivity from Nokia.
The plan is “to advance open network architectures in the telecom ecosystem and private 5G use cases among businesses”.
As part of the agreement, Nokia will adopt Dell as its preferred infrastructure partner for existing Nokia AirFrame customers. It will offer Dell’s technology as the infrastructure of choice for telecom cloud deployments.
Nokia and Dell will graudally transition AirFrame customers to Dell’s broad infrastructure portfolio, including Dell PowerEdge servers, purpose built for modern telecom network workloads from core to edge to RAN.
Two-way street
In exchange, Nokia Digital Automation Cloud (NDAC) private wireless solution will become Dell’s preferred private wireless platform for enterprise customers’ edge use cases.
The companies will integrate Nokia’s NDAC solution with Dell NativeEdge, an edge operations software platform, to provide a “comprehensive, scalable” solution for enterprises.
The two build on research and development efforts around core network functions and collaborate on platform and application testing and lifecycle management in the Dell Open Telecom Ecosystem Lab.
Dell and Nokia plan to certify workloads on Dell Telecom Infrastructure Blocks that support Nokia Cloud offerings, while also continuing to collaborate on OEM engagements.
Dennis Hoffman, SVP and GM, Telecom Systems Business, Dell Technologies, said, “With our decades of digital transformation experience, we’re ready to work…with Nokia’s customers to continue their network cloud transformation journey on the industry’s top selling compute platform.”
For his part, Nishant Batra, Chief Strategy and Technology Officer at Nokia stated, “This…will make both companies more flexible and able to better address future customer needs.”
He added, “Dell’s digital transformation expertise and global scale, services and support will provide a seamless transition option for Nokia AirFrame customers, and Nokia’s vast experience in the design, deployment, and operation of high-performance public and private mobile networks will provide Dell’s customers with a comprehensive, scalable private wireless solution.”