Nokia announces its AirFrame Open Edge computing server blade.
Nokia revealed its building block for edge deployments and small data centers. at the NFV World Congress yesterday in San Jose, Calif. The Airframe Open Edge server is compact and uses open-source software to manage network functions.
The server is designed to cut latency by bringing the computing closer to the customer in an edge cloud.
Nokia CTO and head of R&D Foundation, Mobile Networks Henri Tervonen was speaking about winning on the edge at a conference devoted more to software when he slyly whipped out the new sleek server blade. The blade — either by itself or in multi-rack configuration — can be inside the datacenter or anywhere from a light pole to the factory floor, on the edge of the network.
Nokia’s Nokia ReefShark chipset — designed specifically for 5G — sits on the server. Based on 3GPP 5G New Radio specification, ReefShark has massive Multiple Input Multiple Output (mMIMO) antennas, radio and baseband.
Nokia CTO and head of R&D Foundation, Mobile Networks Henri Tervonen holds AirFrame Open Edge at NVF-Zero Touch, April 25, 2018. (Bad cell phone image courtesy of Susan Rambo, RCR Wireless)
Nokia AirFrame Open Edge server at the Nokia booth at NFV-Zero conference in San Jose, Calif. (Source: RCR Wireless)
The Airframe uses Nokia’s real-time OpenStack distribution, compatible with Linux Open Platform for NFV (network functions virtualization), which is designed to run small data centers. The open source is supposed to make setting up the server easier.
Deliveries of the Nokia AirFrame open edge server start in Q3 2018
Nokia AirFrame Open Edge server. Source: RCR Wireless
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