Furukawa will now offer Nokia's Data Center Fabric solution, which includes high-performance switching platforms for data centers, running Nokia SR Linux, an exclusively open, extensible, and resilient network operating system, and managed by Nokia Event-Driven Automation (EDA), a modern data center network automation platform that combines speed with reliability and simplicity, and provides guardrails that detect errors caused by automation.

Roberto Kihara, General Sales Manager of Furukawa Electric LatAm, states: “We are delighted to expand our partnership with Nokia to offer the most advanced passive optical network technology available. The POL market is very hot in Latin America, and we have much to achieve together in the region’s data center market. Brazil is a promising and exemplary market in terms of investment volume and demand for automation solutions.”

For his part, Juan Pablo Anadon, Head of Enterprise, Webscale and Partners Sales for Latin America, Network Infrastructure at Nokia, commented: “Together with Furukawa Electric LatAm, we are committed to rapidly bringing cutting-edge data center technology to the Latin American enterprise market. Our new EDA platform, developed for the AI ​​era, simplifies data center management and can reduce operational efforts by up to 40%. Part of our Data Center Fabric solution, EDA is now available in Brazil just two weeks after its global launch, allowing us to work toward our goal with Furukawa of supporting and advancing data center networks in Latin America.”

Nokia is helping cloud builders around the world build modern data center networks that are highly reliable, secure, and easy to operate, which is essential to meeting the growing demands of AI workloads worldwide.