GigaOm names Nokia "Leader" and "Outperformer" in Data Centre Switching for fifth straight year
Nokia announced that it has been named a Leader and
Outperformer in GigaOm's 2026 Radar Report for Data Centre Switching for the
fifth consecutive year. This consistent recognition underscores Nokia's
continued innovation and leadership in delivering robust, scalable, and highly
automated data center networking solutions critical for the evolving demands of
the AI era.
The annual GigaOm Radar evaluates
leading data center switching solutions based on technical capabilities,
product roadmaps and business criteria. In the 2026 report, Nokia's Data Center
Fabric solution is positioned in the Innovation/Platform Play quadrant and
classified as an Outperformer due to strong feature delivery and high scores
across key and emerging capabilities.
GigaOm assessed ten leading
vendors in the data center switching market and evaluated their offers against
a set of core technical and operational criteria. Nokia's Data Center Fabric
received the highest possible five-star ratings across all key feature
categories evaluated in the report, including hardware portfolio, switching and
routing features, day 0, day 1 and day 2+ operations and management, NetDevOps
suitability and traffic security. The report also recognized Nokia's strengths
in emerging capabilities such as AI-specific networking features and its
microservices-based network operating system architecture.
"GigaOm's analysis
highlights Nokia's consistent innovation in data center switching and its
strong feature delivery over the past year. Its Data Center Fabric stands out
for the depth of its hardware and software capabilities and strong support for
automation that are designed to address the requirements of modern AI-driven
data center environments," said Andrew Green, Analyst at GigaOm.
The recognition also highlights
Nokia's expanding role in the data center ecosystem as enterprises, cloud
providers and telecommunications providers modernize their infrastructure to
support increasingly data-intensive applications and distributed cloud
architectures.
"Being named a GigaOM data
centre switching Leader and Outperformer for the fifth year in a row is
validation of two things. First, we are doing the hard work of providing highly
reliable data center solutions for cloud, enterprise, and service provider
customers tasked with building in this AI era. And second, we are keeping pace
with all the innovation being driven by AI. Openness, automation, scale and
reliability are more than buzzwords. They require constant care and feeding,
and this GigaOM recognition represents that," said Michael Bushong, Vice President
Data Center at Nokia.
For customers, this recognition
reinforces Nokia's focus on simplifying operations and improving reliability
through its Human Error Zero strategy, which aims to eliminate both software
defects and configuration errors that can impact data center networks.
Nokia's Data Center Fabric
combines high-capacity switching platforms, the SR Linux network operating
system and the Event-Driven Automation (EDA) platform to deliver programmable,
highly automated data center networks. The solution is designed to support both
greenfield and brownfield deployments and integrates easily into heterogeneous
environments, enabling enterprises, cloud providers, colocation operators and
service providers to evolve their data center infrastructure while maintaining
the simplicity of their operations.
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