Data center networks
Turn your data center into the nerve center of the AI era
Transforming data center networks for the AI supercycle
Data center networks need to evolve quickly to meet the demands of the AI supercycle.
Our data center networking solutions help the world's most innovative companies transform their data centers to handle tougher workloads, open new revenue streams and boost operational efficiency. We provide the robust, high-performance connectivity you need to realize the full potential of AI, cloud and other data-intensive technologies.
Nokia has a well-established track record in building business- and mission-critical networks. Our quality-first philosophy is a big part of why our customers trust us to build data center networks that “just work.”
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Data center networks for the AI era
Recognized leader and outperformer
5th consecutive year in GigaOm 2026 Radar for Data Center Switching for the fifth consecutive year.
75%
Reduction in optical connectivity power vs. legacy solution with our ICE-D Intra-data center optics
96%
Decrease in downtime with data center networks that run on SR Linux and EDA compared to legacy solutions.
Dive into Nokia data center networking
Our data center networking solutions include high-performance switches and optics that ramp up connectivity inside data centers, and IP and optical technologies that interconnect data centers. We provide a comprehensive portfolio that delivers unmatched performance, scalability and efficiency for the most demanding environments.
Data center switches
Our data center switching solutions are built to support our human error zero vision. Offering interface speeds up to 1.6T, a choice of network operating system (NOS) options and a modern automation platform, they deliver reliable, simple and adaptable networking for traditional and AI data centers.
Intra-data center optics
Our vertically integrated, versatile ICE-D intra-data center connectivity solutions enable you to scale compute capacity while minimizing power consumption.
Data center network automation
Our Event-Driven Automation (EDA) platform simplifies data center network operations with intent-based automation, continuous validation and real-time observability. It helps you deploy and operate reliable, adaptable networks faster while reducing complexity, human error and downtime.
Real results from modern data center networks
Discover how leading cloud providers, enterprises, and AI innovators are evolving their infrastructure with modern data center networking solutions from Nokia to accelerate growth, improve operational efficiency, and prepare for the next generation of AI-driven services and applications.
Why choose Nokia for data center networking?
A complete data center networking solution
Our comprehensive product and solution portfolio helps you keep pace with the growing demand for robust, high-performance connectivity inside data centers, between data centers, to users and with other networks.
A quality-first approach
Quality is the focus of our data center network products and solutions. We work to ensure that you can support every customer, user and application with networks that just work. This includes our commitment to continuous innovation, implementing best-in-class test and design processes, and providing advanced connectivity that adapts to your existing environment.
Simple, trouble-free operations
Our data center networks are designed to eradicate human error, remove complexity, and handle AI and traditional workloads with ease. We take advantage of partnerships and global standards to ensure that they are easy to implement. And we prioritize reliability, quality and security to make sure your networks will never hold you back.
Industry recognition
Nokia EDA makes data center network automation more reliable and easier to use, from small edge clouds to the largest AI fabrics.
Nokia wins for its massive 7250 IXR-18e switch that's also massively scalable and flexible.
Nokia wins Network X Award for Leading Data Centre Networks Solution, spotlighting its cutting-edge automation platform and innovation.
GigaOm recognizes Nokia as a data center switching innovation leader and outperformer for the fifth straight year.
Nokia recognized as Representative Vendor
Nokia wins for Best Strategic Acquisition with game-changing acquisition of Infinera, strategically positioned for the AI Supercycle.
Frequently asked questions
We transform data center networking for the AI Supercycle by providing the scalable, high-performance connectivity solutions required to support massive GPU clusters, AI training, inference workloads and cloud-scale applications.
Our visionary portfolio advances data center and AI networking to create an open, end-to-end architecture optimized for AI infrastructure. We help our customers build low-latency, lossless, energy-efficient networks that accelerate AI workloads while simplifying operations and reducing errors through intelligent automation and telemetry. By delivering open networking solutions that scale from enterprise data centers to hyperscale AI infrastructures, we enable our customers to benefit from resilient infrastructure that is ready for the next generation of AI applications.
We provide a comprehensive data center networking portfolio that connects servers, storage, GPU clusters, metro networks and cloud environments through a unified architecture. We also provide a unique combination of expertise and portfolio offerings across IP routing, Ethernet switching, data center fabrics, coherent pluggable optics and optical line equipment.
Our network automation and management platforms offer advanced network visibility and telemetry. Together, these technologies allow you to build scalable AI fabrics, cloud data centers, enterprise networks and distributed edge infrastructure using open standards. Our customers trust our visionary portfolio for deployments that range from enterprise modernization and cutting-edge cloud-building projects to the world's largest hyperscale and AI cloud environments.
We help you realize your data center network modernization ambitions with award-winning networking technology that features modern cloud-native architectures purpose-built for AI and cloud data centers. Our platforms deliver efficiency and reliability and help reduce operational complexity and errors with powerful automation tools that help you confidently run and manage your network .
Our support of open standards gives you greater flexibility and protects your network investments. Independent industry analysts—including Gartner®, GigaOm, IDC, Omdia and Dell'Oro Group—have consistently recognized our innovation and leadership in IP routing, optical networking and data center networking.
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We also bring unparalleled expertise in IP, optical networking and PON to your data center planning efforts, backed by. Unlike traditional vendors, we combine nonstop reliability with hyperscale flexibility. This makes our solutions ideal for organizations that are adopting Ethernet-based AI fabrics and next-generation data center architectures.
Real-world experience designing and deploying networks in some of the world’s most demanding environments. Our proven migration capabilities and powerful automation platforms ensure seamless data center transitions. They enable secure, scalable and future-ready networking solutions that let you operate AI and high-performance applications with confidence.
We drive multivendor ecosystem innovation by supporting:
- open standards
- disaggregated architectures
- open APIs
- standard Ethernet technologies
- SONiC integration options
- SR Linux extensibility
- cloud-native automation.
Our platforms integrate with third-party tools, hardware and cloud environments to enable flexible deployment models.
Our AI Innovation Lab accelerates co-creation with hyperscalers, cloud builders, telecommunication providers, enterprises and partners by providing an environment for validating AI-driven networking solutions and ensuring interoperability. This collaborative approach helps reduce deployment risk while accelerating innovation across the AI ecosystem.
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AI Networking Innovation Lab
We help our customers scale up AI networking by combining our SR Linux NOS with high-performance data center switches such as our 7220 IXR series with 400G/800G/1.6T Ethernet to deliver low-latency, lossless fabrics optimized for GPU communication (RoCEv2). Our solutions support scale up, scale-out and scale-across to enable the implementation of massively scalable AI infrastructures.
We interconnect data center fabrics in different locations with our IP/optical portfolio (7750 SR routers and coherent optics) for high-capacity data center interconnect (DCI) and wide-area networking (WAN) connectivity that supports distributed AI. At the edge, the same SR Linux-based architecture extends to inference locations to ensure consistency from core to edge.
Together, these portfolio elements create a unified, cloud-native networking foundation that supports AI workloads from a single rack to globally distributed systems.
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