Dell Technologies and Nokia have announced the extension of a partnership to use each company’s expertise and offerings, including infrastructure from Dell and private wireless connectivity from Nokia, to advance open network architectures in the telecoms 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 telecoms cloud deployments. Nokia and Dell will help transition existing AirFrame customers over time to Dell’s infrastructure portfolio, including Dell PowerEdge servers, purpose built for modern telecoms 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 telecoms networks and private 5G use cases,” said Dennis Hoffman, a senior vice president and general manager of the Telecom Systems Business at 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.”
Nishant Batra, the chief strategy and technology officer at Nokia, added, “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.”
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