The Nokia 7220 Interconnect Router (7220 IXR) for data center fabric provides fixed-configuration, high-capacity platforms that let you bring unmatched scale, flexibility and operational simplicity to your data center networks and cloud environments.
A key part of our Data Center Fabric solution, these scalable next-generation platforms are designed to meet the high connectivity and density demands of webscale companies, service providers and enterprises. You can deploy them rapidly and easily adapt them to meet your changing needs.
Features and benefits
The 7220 IXR for data center fabrics lets you combine high-scale interconnectivity with an open, extensible and resilient NOS and an operations toolkit that enables you to automate every phase of data center fabric operations.
High-capacity fixed-configuration platforms
The 7220 IXR provides high-capacity, high-density, fixed configuration platforms designed for data center leaf-spine deployments.
These platforms give you:
- Multiple chassis variants with system capacities up to 6.4 Tb/s
- Support for 400GE, 100GE, 50GE, 40GE, 25GE, 10GE or 1GE port speeds
- Hot swappable and redundant power supplies
- Hot swappable and redundant fans
A modern, open NOS
The 7220 IXR implements our SR Linux NOS, a unique, ground-up architecture built around model-driven management and modern interfaces.
With SR Linux, you can:
- Bring simplified operations and integrations, ultimate visibility and unmatched flexibility to your data centers
- Evolve your data center networks with essential enhanced IP routing features such as MP-BGP, EVPN and VXLAN
- Give your NetOps teams and application developers the confidence to fine tune and customize their data center platforms and NOS to meet their needs
Predictable, consumable and adaptable operations
The 7220 IXR are managed by our Event-Driven Automation (EDA) platform for highly reliable, simplified, and adaptable data center networks. EDA leverages Kubernetes foundation to lower risks and barriers to entry. With EDA, you can :
- Reduce network disruptions and service downtime by driving human error in network operations to zero.
- Decrease operational effort up to 40% by simplifying data center life cycle operations.
- Easily integrate with a wide range of tools, IT service management systems, event notification systems, and cloud management platforms.
Resources
Analyst reports
Articles
- Gestalt IT-Implementing NetDevOps in Datacenter Fabric Operations with Nokia
- Gestalt IT: Nokia introduces SR-Linux as its modular, open and extensible Network Operating System
- SDxCentral: Nokia wants to conquer the data center market - Can genAI help?
- SR Linux GPT blog on learn.srlinux.dev (Includes app installation process)
- The NextPlatform: Making data center networking as consumable as compute
- The Register: Operating your network isn’t enough. You need to develop (for) it
- The Register: Why can't a switch be like a server? Nokia says it can
- VMBlog: Prediction series-2022-Jan-Why 2022 is the year of consumable data center networks
Blogs
- Building a new webscale management architecture for data center switching
- Building your business case for a new data center switching fabric
- Enabling automated EVPN connectivity for data center fabrics
- Powering the new NetOps era with Containerlab
- SR Linux and ChatGPT combine for network AIOps
- Take charge of your data center switching infrastructure
- The consumable data center network – bon appétit!
- Ushering in a new era of data center switching
Podcasts
- Develop Custom Network Apps With Nokia’s SR Linux NDK
- Enhancing CI/CD Pipelines With Nokia’s Digital Sandbox
- Heavy Networking 653: Design, Deploy, And Operate With Nokia Data Center Fabric Solution
- Maximize Network Data With Nokia’s Streaming Telemetry
- Nokia Fabric Services System Streamlines Network Automation For Application Stacks
- Nokia’s ChatGPT App Lets Engineers Query The Network
- Packet Pushers-Configure devices, stream telemetry with Nokia's free open-source gNMIc
- Packet Pushers-Event-Driven Automation With Nokia’s SR Linux Event Handler Framework
- Packet Pushers: Containerlab makes container and VM networking Labs easy
- Packet Pushers: How Nokia's Digital Sandbox Enhances Intent-Based Automation
- Packet Pushers: Network Apps for smarter network Ops
- Packet Pushers: Operationalizing EVPN for data center networks
- Running An Open, Automated Data Center Fabric With Nokia
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