Nokia and Furukawa to offer data centre solutions in Brazil

Nokia and Furukawa Electric LatAm have expanded their partnership to immediately bring high-performance solutions in data centre automation to Brazil. Partners since 2022, the two companies will also continue to offer advanced passive optical network technologies to the Latin American business market.

Furukawa will now offer Nokia’s Data Centre Fabric solution, which includes high-performance data centre switching platforms, running Nokia SR Linux, a uniquely open, extensible and resilient Network Operating System and managed by Nokia Event-Driven Automation (EDA), a modern data centre network automation platform that combines speed with reliability and simplicity and provides guardrails that detect errors caused by automation.

Roberto Kihara, General Sales Manager for Furukawa Electric LatAm, says, “Furukawa is delighted to extend its partnership with Nokia to offer the most advanced passive optical network technology available. The POL market is very hot in Latin America and we have a lot to achieve together in the region’s data centre market. Brazil is a promising market and exemplary in terms of investment volume and demand for automation solutions.”

Juan Pablo Anadon, Head of Enterprise, Webscale and Partners Sales for Latin America, Network Infrastructure at Nokia, adds, “Together with Furukawa Electric LatAm, Nokia is committed to bringing cutting-edge data centre technology to the Latin American business market quickly. The new EDA platform, developed for the AI era, simplifies data centre management and can cut down operational efforts up to 40%. Part of Nokia’s Data Centre Fabric solution, EDA is now available in Brazil just two weeks following its global launch, allowing Nokia to work towards its goal with Furukawa to support and advance data centre networks in Latin America.”

Nokia is helping cloud builders worldwide to build modern data centre networks that are highly reliable, secure and easy to operate – which is essential to meet the growing demands of AI workloads across the globe.

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Nokia and Furukawa Electric LatAm have expanded their partnership to immediately bring high-performance solutions in data centre automation to Brazil. Partners since 2022, the two companies will also continue to offer advanced passive optical network technologies to the Latin American business market.

Furukawa will now offer Nokia’s Data Centre Fabric solution, which includes high-performance data centre switching platforms, running Nokia SR Linux, a uniquely open, extensible and resilient Network Operating System and managed by Nokia Event-Driven Automation (EDA), a modern data centre network automation platform that combines speed with reliability and simplicity and provides guardrails that detect errors caused by automation.

Roberto Kihara, General Sales Manager for Furukawa Electric LatAm, says, “Furukawa is delighted to extend its partnership with Nokia to offer the most advanced passive optical network technology available. The POL market is very hot in Latin America and we have a lot to achieve together in the region’s data centre market. Brazil is a promising market and exemplary in terms of investment volume and demand for automation solutions.”

Juan Pablo Anadon, Head of Enterprise, Webscale and Partners Sales for Latin America, Network Infrastructure at Nokia, adds, “Together with Furukawa Electric LatAm, Nokia is committed to bringing cutting-edge data centre technology to the Latin American business market quickly. The new EDA platform, developed for the AI era, simplifies data centre management and can cut down operational efforts up to 40%. Part of Nokia’s Data Centre Fabric solution, EDA is now available in Brazil just two weeks following its global launch, allowing Nokia to work towards its goal with Furukawa to support and advance data centre networks in Latin America.”

Nokia is helping cloud builders worldwide to build modern data centre networks that are highly reliable, secure and easy to operate – which is essential to meet the growing demands of AI workloads across the globe.

For more from Nokia, click here.

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