Nokia Joins Open Compute Project as Platinum Member to Advance Open, Scalable Networking Solutions for the AI Supercycle

Nokia Joins Open Compute Project as Platinum Member to Advance Open, Scalable Networking Solutions for the AI Supercycle

(IN BRIEF) Nokia has joined the Open Compute Project as a Platinum member, reinforcing its commitment to advancing open, scalable and AI-optimized networking technologies. As AI workloads continue to stress conventional data center and network designs, Nokia will collaborate with OCP’s 500-member community to develop standards-based solutions that address capacity, power and scalability challenges. The partnership focuses on key areas such as optical and IP integration, high-speed interconnects, AI-native wireless technologies and energy-efficient architectures. Leaders from OCP and Nokia emphasized the need for industry collaboration to meet the demands of increasingly complex AI networks. Nokia’s comprehensive portfolio of data center networking solutions positions it to contribute significantly to next-generation AI data centers and edge environments.

(PRESS RELEASE) ESPOO, 20-Nov-2025 — /EuropaWire/ — Nokia has strengthened its role in shaping the future of AI-driven networks by joining the Open Compute Project (OCP) as a Platinum member, becoming part of a 500-member global community dedicated to advancing open, interoperable and scalable infrastructure solutions. This strategic move accelerates Nokia’s efforts to enable the next generation of network architectures capable of supporting the massive computational and connectivity demands of the AI supercycle.

The surge in AI workloads is pushing traditional data center designs—originally built for stable, conventional enterprise traffic—to their limits. Both data centers and the network edge are experiencing unprecedented pressure in terms of capacity, power consumption, and scalability. AI’s rapid expansion increasingly requires interconnection between geographically distributed data centers, along with solutions that scale both vertically and horizontally across infrastructure layers.

Nokia’s participation in OCP aims to address these challenges by contributing its expertise in integrating optical and IP layers to scale distributed architectures, using AI-native wireless capabilities to optimize consumer and enterprise experiences, delivering efficient PON-based out-of-band management, and advancing optical systems that enable high-speed, low-power inter-data-center connectivity. Nokia will also focus on optical interconnect technologies that enhance compute-to-compute performance and support AI-driven network operations.

George Tchaparian, Chief Executive Officer of the Open Compute Project, welcomed Nokia’s involvement, noting that data center operators urgently need dependable and open technologies to scale AI clusters within and across data centers. He emphasized that Nokia’s leadership and technical depth will contribute significant value to OCP’s collaborative innovation model.

Pallavi Mahajan, Chief Technology and AI Officer at Nokia, highlighted that AI is reshaping the future of data center architectures and that open standards and industry collaboration are essential to designing solutions capable of meeting AI’s immense scale, reliability, and efficiency requirements. Nokia looks forward to working alongside OCP members to push the boundaries of next-generation data center and edge networking.

Nokia’s data center networking portfolio includes high-performance switches, advanced optics, and IP–optical convergence technologies designed to boost connectivity inside data centers as well as between multi-site facilities. This end-to-end offering delivers the performance and efficiency required for the world’s most demanding AI-era operations.

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