Nokia Chosen by CANARIE as Sole IP Router Provider of Ultra-High-Capacity Backbone Network for Canadian Research, Education and Innovation
March 23, 2023 at 08:00 am EDT
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Nokia Oyj announced that CANAR, the high-speed backbone of Canada's Notational Research and Education Network (NREN), has chosen the Nokia 7750 Service Router as the IP/MPLS platform to support its more than 34,000 km network connecting 13 provincial and territorial networks to each other and to more than 100 NRENs around the world. CANARIE and its partner networks enable breakthrough research from scientists across disciplines such as high-energy physics, biology, medicine, the environment, and astronomy, where, for example, data is gathered on millions of galaxies dating back billions of years. With a proliferation of instruments like telescopes, sensors, and detectors that gather more data with greater precision, sensitivity and speed, supercomputers must process petabytes of raw data. Additionally, because research collaboration happens across the globe, that data must be transferred rapidly, reliably, and securely, while containing costs. The 7750 SR platform is designed to solve this monumental challenge with 100 Gb/s and 400 Gb/s services over an IP/MPLS network capable of supporting more than 46 Tb/s of capacity. This equates to transmitting about 30 terabytes of data in just 10 minutes, equivalent to sharing 5,000 two-hour Netflix movies in 1080p HD. This kind of massive capacity also makes network automation and DDoS security paramount, which the Nokia 7750 SR supports with advanced telemetry
streams of flow-level data and insights in near-real time.
Nokia Oyj specializes in the design, production and marketing of telecommunications equipment. Net sales break down by activity as follows:
- development of mobile broadband network solutions (44%): aimed in particular at telecommunications operators. In addition, the group offers professional services (network planning and optimization, systems integration, installation, implementation and maintenance of telecom networks);
- development of network infrastructure solutions (36.1%): IP routers and optical networking solutions.
- software development (14.5%): software for customer experience management, network operations and management, communication, collaboration and billing, IoT solutions and cloud management platforms;
- development of advanced technology (4.9%);
- other (0.6%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Europe (26.4%), North America (25.8%), India (12.8%), China (5.8%), Asia/Pacific (10.3%), Middle East and Africa (9.2%), Latin America (4.7%) and other (5%).