Facilities can connect at 400 Gbps
Nokia is providing its 7250 IXR interconnect routers with 400 Gbps-wide interfaces to Africa Data Centres (ADC), the continent’s biggest provider of interconnected, carrier and cloud-neutral facilities. It means that Cassava Technologies-owned ADC can offer high-capacity interconnection services to its customers in multiple African countries at better rates.
The routers will use Nokia’s Service Router Operating System (SR OS) to run Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) 3.0 certified interconnection services. The system allows ADC to offer customers ethernet-based virtual cross-connects, an on-ramp to the cloud, inter data centre connectivity and continent-wide remote peering services. MEF 3.0 defines the specifications and standards for these services and the application programming interfaces used to enable them, which eases the progress of their development and adoption.
In addition, Africa Data Centres will use the Nokia Network Services Platform (NSP) to automate the running of connectivity services. The NSP will help Africa Data Centres expedite its progress for connectivity services that can be easily consumed by its telco customers, allowing them to run workloads in any location and interconnect them in a safe and smooth transaction. ADC selected Nokia for its clean connections, according to Tesh Durvasula, CEO at Africa Data Centres “Customers want scalable, reliable and secure access to their workloads, wherever they are located,” said Dervasula, “Nokia simplifies service so that our customers can create a strong flexible infrastructure more easily and cost-effectively.”
There is a trend among telcos driven by their increasing use of cloud application, which need more scalable, flexible and automatic data centre interconnections, said Manolo Ortiz, SVP of Nokia Webscale Business for EMEA. “Our solution ensures the capacity to meet their future demands while cutting operational costs and increasing operations efficiency through automation,” said Ortiz.