Introduction

Accelerating demand for distributed cloud-based applications is putting immense scaling and operational pressures on data center networks and operations teams. The key challenge for data center operators is to balance the need to constantly scale data center networks against the increasing costs of designing, building and operating them.

The Nokia Data Center Fabric solution addresses this challenge by:

  • Enabling more scalable, high performance leaf-spine data center fabrics using SR Linux
  • SR Linux is an open, extensible and programmable Network Operating System (NOS) that runs on high performance Nokia data center switching platforms based on merchant silicon.
  • Improving operations agility and flexibility using the Fabric Services System.

The Fabric Services System is an intent based NetOps automation toolkit for the Day 0 design, Day 1 deployment and Day 2+ operations phases of the data center fabric lifecycle.

The solution provides a number of business benefits that enable operations teams to:

  • Increase the reliability and availability of application workloads
  • Scale and simplify operations to keep pace with business growth while managing resources
  • Meet the increasing need for operational agility, flexibility, and efficiency
  • Reduce time to market by completing operational tasks in minutes rather than days
  • Automate manual operations tasks that are error prone, repetitive, or complex to perform
  • Reduce operational risk when making frequent configuration adds, moves and changes to meet evolving application needs
  • Reduce the need for physical test lab equipment by using true network emulation
  • Improve operational metrics, such as uptime, performance, mean time to repair and mean time to innocence.

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Nokia Bell Labs Data Center Fabric business case analysis

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