Nokia has been testing Ultra Ethernet Transport (UET) traffic across its data centre platforms, and says “AI is changing the game when it comes to expected performance.”
Nokia, alongside Keysight Technologies, completed some end-to-end testing of UET traffic across its high-performance data centre switching platforms. The test ran on kit such as the Nokia 7220 Interconnect Router (IXR) and 7250 IXR, and Nokia says it demonstrates compatibility with integrating Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC) Specification 1.0 capabilities into its HPC/AI-ready networking portfolio.
It also boasted that this “reinforces its leadership in building extreme-scale, lossless, low-latency networks for modern data centres built for the AI era.”
Nokia says that AI is driving a fundamental rethink of data centre operations, and that real-time training and inference demand ultra-low latency, “while even minor packet loss can derail training jobs and delay completion.” These, plus massive bandwidth requirements, are pushing existing data centre networks to their limits, we’re told.
