With the launch of a new and modern Network Operating System, Nokia has redefined data center fabrics and a declarative, intent-based automation and operations toolkit.
As per the reports, Nokia stated that this will offer cloud and data center builders to scale and adapt operations in the coming years for exponential growth of traffic and alike changes brought on from technology shifts like 5G and Industry 4.0. The new Nokia Service Router Linux (SR Linux) NOS and Nokia Fabric Service Platform (FSP) were developed jointly with some of the leading global webscale companies, such as Apple, which is responsible for deploying the technology at its respective data centers.
Nokia also stated that its SR Linux is one of the genuine architectural step which has been taken as it is the first fully modern microservices-based upon NOS, and the SR Linux NDK (NetOps development kit) puts forward a total and rich set of programming capabilities.
Through modern tools such as gRPC (remote procedure call) and protobuf, with no recompiling, no language limitations and no dependencies the applications are integrated very easily. SR Linux also inherits different types of Nokia’s battle-tested Internet protocols from the service router operating system (SROS), which is the trademark of the huge installed base of Nokia carrier-grade routers. Industry’s first flexible and open network application development environment has been marked by SR Linux.
FSP has been designed to build, deploy and monitor the entire data center network with powerful network level constructs. Finally, the FSP includes technologies that were only available to the largest cloud builders, such as a real-time state-correct virtual digital twin for validation and troubleshooting.