NL-ix deploys Nokia's FP5-powered IP routing technology across Europe

Nokia is expanding its partnership with NL-ix, Europe's largest distributed Internet Exchange provider (IXP), to extend the rollout of 7750 Service Routers (SR) with speeds of up to 800GE interfaces from the Netherlands to the more than 100 datacenters the latter operates throughout the continent.

Commenting on this partnership, Mark Vanderhaegen, Director of Webscale Business at Nokia, said, "We are delighted to work with such an innovative leader as NL-ix as they deploy Nokia's FP5-powered IP routing technology across Europe. With 800GE routing, NL-ix has a platform for unrelenting internet traffic growth and sustainable business connectivity that sets new benchmarks for reliability, performance and scale."

With the deployment of Nokia's 800GE systems, NL-ix can now offer dedicated enterprise business Internet Exchange services by providing five 9's network uptime, any port at any speed up to 800GE, while consuming less energy and real estate.

NL-ix had previously installed Nokia 800GE systems in its data centers across Amsterdam, where daily average traffic on the network peaked above 8 Tb/s in 2023. To handle traffic spikes throughout the entire network, NL-ix plans to deploy a variety of Nokia's SR family of IP routers. This will include large-scale FP5-based multi-slot systems for core routing, as well as smaller IP routers for edge and satellite-based applications.

NL-ix is transforming from a localized Internet Exchange into a European business connectivity platform, capable of providing carrier-grade resiliency and supporting 5 9's availability of its network services.

"Over the next four years, in an intensive partnership with Nokia, NL-ix will be investing heavily in reinforcing its strategic position as the leading pan-European Enterprise Internet and Cloud Exchange. As a robust foundation under it's single-coherent and carrier grade network fabric, NL-ix will deploy Nokia's FP5 silicon and 800 Gbit/s technology building upon Nokia's 7750 SR, with far more speed and sustainable performance, deeply embedded in our fine grained 100+ local datacenter footprint throughout Europe. This technology investment will boost our business transformation allowing us to provide European enterprises mission critical services with the insight and control of our unique Elastic Internet technology from the very capillaries of the European Internet," said Jan Hoogenboom, CEO at NL-ix.