News summary
- Nokia adopts Dell Technologies as its preferred infrastructure
partner for Nokia AirFrame servers, helping transition customers to
Dell PowerEdge servers with Dell global services and support
- Dell adopts Nokia as its preferred private wireless partner for
enterprise edge use cases, providing businesses with seamless
integration and support
- The companies continue joint research and development efforts
and platform and application testing in the Dell Open Telecom
Ecosystem Lab
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ROCK, Texas and ESPOO, Finland, Feb. 15,
2024 /PRNewswire/ --
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Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) announce
the extension of a strategic partnership to use each company's
expertise and industry-leading solutions, including infrastructure
solutions from Dell and private wireless connectivity from Nokia,
to advance open network architectures in the telecom ecosystem and
private 5G use cases among businesses.
As part of the agreement, Nokia will adopt Dell as its preferred
infrastructure partner for existing Nokia AirFrame customers,
offering Dell's technology as the infrastructure of choice for
telecom cloud deployments. Nokia and Dell will help transition
existing AirFrame customers over time to Dell's broad
infrastructure portfolio, including Dell PowerEdge servers, purpose
built for modern telecom network workloads from core to edge to
RAN.
The Nokia Digital Automation Cloud (NDAC) private wireless
solution will become Dell's preferred private wireless platform for
enterprise customers' edge use cases. The companies will work
together to integrate Nokia's NDAC solution with Dell NativeEdge,
the edge operations software platform, to provide a comprehensive,
scalable solution for enterprises.
"Through our collaboration, Nokia and Dell Technologies will
harness each company's expertise and expanded distribution to
simply and quickly scale modern telecom networks and private 5G use
cases," said Dennis Hoffman, senior
vice president and general manager, Telecom Systems Business, Dell
Technologies. "With our decades of digital transformation
experience, we're ready to work together with Nokia's customers to
continue their network cloud transformation journey on the
industry's top selling compute platform."
"This strategic partnership will make both companies more
flexible and able to better address future customer needs. Dell's
digital transformation expertise and global scale, services and
support will provide a seamless transition option for Nokia
AirFrame customers, and Nokia's vast experience in the design,
deployment, and operation of high-performance public and private
mobile networks will provide Dell's customers with a comprehensive,
scalable private wireless solution," said Nishant Batra, chief strategy and technology
officer, Nokia. "In line with our technology strategy, our
continued collaboration with Dell will help address the future
needs of our customers brought on by the increasing demands on
networks and provide solutions to help communications service
providers scale modern networks to the cloud."
Building on existing research and development efforts around
core network functions, the two companies will collaborate on
platform and application testing and lifecycle management in the
Dell Open Telecom Ecosystem Lab. Dell and Nokia plan to certify
workloads on Dell Telecom Infrastructure Blocks that support
Nokia Cloud offerings, while also
continuing to collaborate on OEM engagements.
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About Dell Technologies
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individuals build their digital future and transform how they work,
live and play. The company provides customers with the industry's
broadest and most innovative technology and services portfolio for
the data era.
About Nokia
At Nokia, we create technology that helps the world act together.
As a B2B technology innovation leader, we are pioneering networks
that sense, think and act by leveraging our work across mobile,
fixed and cloud networks. In addition, we create value with
intellectual property and long-term research, led by the
award-winning Nokia Bell Labs.
Service providers, enterprises and partners worldwide trust Nokia
to deliver secure, reliable and sustainable networks today – and
work with us to create the digital services and applications of the
future.
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