What Is The Nokia 7730 Service Interconnect Router (SXR)?
The Nokia 7730 Service Interconnect Router (SXR) family represents the forefront of IP access, aggregation, and edge platforms, facilitating the seamless delivery of secure, reliable, and sustainable IP networking services.
Tailored specifically for communication service providers (CSPs) and enterprises with critical operations, the 7730 SXR platforms empower the elevation of performance and capabilities within advanced IP access and aggregation networks. In geographically dispersed IP edge locations, these platforms enable businesses to efficiently address the increasing demands stemming from broadband investments and the evolving landscape of cloud network architectures. Additionally, for mission-critical services, the 7730 SXR ushers in a new era of assured performance and resilience across the farthest reaches of your network infrastructure.
The announcement of the Nokia 7730 SXR also simultaneously encompasses significant advancements across all three of the pillars that have differentiated Nokia’s IP routing solutions:
The Nokia FPcx
This compact and extensible new silicon brings fully programmable, high-touch traffic processing capabilities to the network’s access, aggregation, and edge layers.
The 7730 SXR Portfolio
This collection comprises six new IP routing platforms tailored specifically for the aggregation and service edge layers in both CSP and mission-critical networks.
The Expansion of SR Linux
Nokia’s cloud-native and modular Network Operating System (NOS) on the 7730 SXR offers the consumability and extensibility needed to enable Network Operations (NetOps) in this high-touch network layer.
Benefits of Advanced Routing Silicon
At the core of the 7730 SXR lies the innovative Nokia FPcx network processing unit (NPU). This NPU boasts full programmability and represents the exceptional performance and feature-rich capabilities of Nokia’s FP silicon in a compact and adaptable package.
Including robust network security features, like in-line filtering for DDoS mitigation and advanced line-rate encryption, equips businesses with the essential tools to safeguard their networks and services. Notably, the distinctive multi-core cluster design introduces new methods of streamlining software upgrades seamlessly, eliminating the need for network downtime, and advancing Quality of Service (QoS), efficient queue management, and a well-structured hierarchical memory design in order to guarantee the timely and reliable delivery of IP packets to their intended destinations.
With a fully programmable NPU, organizations gain the flexibility to seamlessly accommodate emerging services and standards without the necessity of rebuilding their entire network infrastructure.
Unlock NetOps
As network infrastructures grow in complexity, the significance of network automation as a means to streamline operations continues to rise. The 7730 SXR platforms are purposefully engineered for automation, integrating it seamlessly into their foundation. They leverage the power of the Nokia SR Linux NOS – which adheres to cloud-native design principles – along with the Nokia NSP automation suite.
Businesses can embrace automation on a large scale with a modular, model-driven architecture, offering telemetry data at unprecedented levels of detail and network optimization across various layers, including IP, MPLS, Ethernet, and optical transport. Similarly, organizations can enjoy resilient networking and uninterrupted per-application software upgrades facilitated by the microservices-based, state-efficient design of SR Linux.
7730 SXR Benefits and Features
Based on your organization’s IP access, aggregation, or small edge requirements, Nokia’s 7730 SXR platforms offer four fixed form-factor and two modular variants to suit the business’s needs. These platforms support a wide range of high-density interface speeds, from 1GE to 400GE, ensuring efficient network solutions.
Other features and benefits include:
Assured and Efficient Performance
- Achieve reliable IP service delivery with a network processor design that guarantees deterministic performance, featuring 7-level hierarchical QoS and support for 256K queues.
- Maintain consistent service levels across the network with a robust and dependable NOS that leverages field-tested SR OS protocol stacks and IP networking applications.
- Drive energy efficiency through appropriately sized platforms, compatibility with SFP-DD optics, and 112G SerDes technology.
Extensive Capabilities
- Expand IP service offerings and visibility with exceptional scalability for counters, services, tunnels, queues, policers, and tables.
- Enhance IP network security with in-line support for DDoS mitigation.
- Secure IP services through MACsec/ANYsec line-rate encryption without sacrificing performance.
Advanced Timing and Synchronization
- Fulfill stringent synchronization requirements with highly accurate timing, thanks to integrated dual-band Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers.
- Support time-sensitive packet transport and fronthaul networks with a Class C-based Telecom Boundary Clock.
Right-Size Scale for Efficient Network Designs
- Extend the capabilities of the IP network with platforms offering system capacities ranging from 3.6 Tb/s to 5.6 Tb/s.
- Accommodate interface speeds ranging from 1GE to 400GE, complete with comprehensive breakout capabilities.
- Enable coherent routing applications with platforms supporting digital coherent optics (DCOs).
NetOps Building Blocks
- Simplify IP network operations with a Linux-based NOS that adopts cloud-native design principles, featuring a modular, microservices-based, state-sharing architecture.
- Customize the network using Nokia’s NetOps Development Kit (NDK) and a programmable Python-based Command Line Interface (CLI).
Built for Automation at Scale
- Automate IP network operations efficiently with model-driven management, comprehensive YANG coverage, and detailed telemetry, including granular counters for key metrics.
- Leverage unparalleled traffic control, optimization, network and service assurance, and transport and service provisioning through the Network Services Platform (NSP).
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