Dell is the preferred infrastructure partner for AirFrame servers. Nokia’s Digital Automation Cloud is Dell’s preferred private wireless platform
Dell Technologies and Nokia expand their strategic partnership. Each will leverage the other’s expertise and solutions, including Dell’s infrastructure and Nokia’s private wireless connectivity.
The plan is to “advance open network architectures and enterprise-to-business private 5G use cases in the communications ecosystem.”
As part of the agreement, Nokia will select Dell as its preferred infrastructure partner for existing Nokia AirFrame customers. We offer Dell technology as the optimal infrastructure for communications cloud deployments.
Nokia and Dell will gradually migrate AirFrame customers to Dell’s broad infrastructure portfolio, including Dell PowerEdge servers purpose-built for modern communications network workloads, from core to edge to RAN. Masu.
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Instead, the Nokia Digital Automation Cloud (NDAC) private wireless solution is Dell’s preferred private wireless platform for edge use cases for enterprise customers.
The companies will integrate Nokia’s NDAC solution with Dell NativeEdge, an edge operations software platform, to provide a “comprehensive and scalable” solution for enterprises.
The two companies are building research and development efforts around core network capabilities and collaborating on platform and application testing and lifecycle management at the Dell Open Telecom Ecosystem Lab.
Dell and Nokia will continue to collaborate on OEM agreements to certify workloads on Dell Telecom Infrastructure Blocks that support Nokia Cloud products.
Dennis Hoffman, senior vice president and general manager, Telecom Systems Business, Dell Technologies. “With decades of digital transformation experience, we are ready to work with Nokia customers to continue their cloud transformation journey, building networks on the industry’s best-selling computing platform.”
Nishant Batra, Nokia’s chief strategy and technology officer, said: “This will enable both companies to be more flexible and better respond to future customer needs.”
He added: “Dell’s digital transformation expertise, global scale, service and support provides Nokia AirFrame customers with seamless migration options to help them design, deploy and operate high-performance public and private mobile networks. Nokia’s extensive experience in providing Dell’s comprehensive and scalable private wireless solutions to our customers.”