7220 Interconnect Router for Data Center Fabric
Build open and automated data center fabrics with high-performance, fixed-configuration platforms
The Nokia 7220 Interconnect Router (7220 IXR) for data center fabric provides fixed-configuration, high-performance 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-performance, 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
Intent-based automation and operations
The 7220 IXR lets you use our Fabric Services System toolkit to support automation at scale for all phases of data center fabric operations, including Day 0 design, Day 1 deployment and Day 2+ operations.
With the Fabric Services System, you can:
- Onboard application workloads faster by automating fabric designs and configurations, including EVPN
- Manage the risk of change by using the Fabric Services System digital sandbox tool to emulate data center fabrics, application workloads and external Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) speakers
Resources
NFD33: Nokia SR Linux and Generative AI Combine for Network AIOps
NFD33: Configure Devices and Stream Telemetry with Nokia and Open-Source gNMIc
NFD33: Lab as Code with Nokia Containerlab
Packet Pushers Video Byte: Nokia SR Linux AI Assistant
OpenColo driving data center innovation
Data Center Network Operations (NetOps) Reimagined
Moor Insights: Nokia Data Center Fabric solution - Benefits of a digital twin
Moor Insights: Nokia Data Center Fabric solution - Leveraging proven foundations
Moor Insights: Nokia Data Center Fabric solution - What’s different?
Moor Insights: Nokia Data Center Fabric solution - Your network automation journey
Nokia Data Center Fabric solution - Evolution of network automation
Nokia TechTalks in 10 - EVPN Multi-homing
Nokia TechTalks in 10 - EVPN Route Types
Nokia TechTalks in 10 - Network Telemetry
BCA Motivations and approach review
7220 IXR-D series and IXR-H series fixed configuration data center hardware platforms
7250 IXR-6e and 7250 IXR-10e data center hardware platforms
IDC: How Datacenter Network Automation Drives Digital Business
TechTalks in 10 - Video playlist (All videos)
TechTalks in 10 - Technology – EVPN
Analyst reports
Application notes
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?
- 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
- SR Linux GPT blog on learn.srlinux.dev (Includes app installation process)
- Take charge of your data center switching infrastructure
- The consumable data center network – bon appétit!
- Ushering in a new era of data center switching
Podcast
- 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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Learn more about Data Center Networks
Blog
Take charge of your data center switching infrastructure
Blog
Enhance cloud services with high-performance interconnection
Event
Nokia Proof of Concept: Automation through a Digital Sandbox of Real Networks
Video
Nokia TechTalks- EVPN for Data Centers
Video
IDC: How Datacenter Network Automation Drives Digital Business
External news
Nokia Selected as Technical Partner for LINX Nairobi
Video
Alan Weckel on IP network evolution and automation
Podcast
Heavy Networking 653: Design, Deploy, And Operate With Nokia Data Center Fabric Solution
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