As part of the agreement, Nokia will adopt Dell as its preferred infrastructure partner for existing Nokia AirFrame customers, offering Dell technology as the infrastructure of choice for telecom cloud deployments. Nokia and Dell will help current AirFrame customers migrate over time to Dell's broad infrastructure portfolio, including Dell PowerEdge servers, specifically designed for modern telecom network workloads, from the core to the edge and the 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 complete and scalable enterprise solution.
Building on existing research and development efforts around core network functions, the two companies will collaborate on platform and application testing and lifecycle management at the Dell Open Telecom Ecosystem Lab. Dell and Nokia plan to certify workloads on Dell's telecom infrastructure building blocks compatible with Nokia Cloud offerings, while continuing to collaborate on OEM commitments.
