Nokia and Furukawa Electric LatAm have announced an expansion of their partnership to bring high-performance data center automation solutions to Brazil immediately. Partners since 2022, the two companies will also continue to offer advanced passive optical network technologies to the Latin American business market.
—a uniquely open, extensible, and resilient Network Operating System. Managed by Nokia Event-Driven Automation (EDA), a modern data center network automation platform, this solution combines speed with reliability and simplicity, providing guardrails that detect errors caused by automation.
Roberto Kihara, General Sales Manager for Furukawa Electric LatAm, stated: “We are delighted to extend our partnership with Nokia to offer the most advanced passive optical network technology available. The POL market is very hot in Latin America and we have a lot to achieve together in the region's data center market. Brazil is a promising market, exemplary in its investment volume and demand for automation solutions."
Juan Pablo Anadon, Head of Enterprise, Webscale and Partners Sales for Latin America, Network Infrastructure at Nokia, added: “Together with Furukawa Electric LatAm, we are committed to bringing cutting-edge data center technology to the Latin American business market quickly. Our new EDA platform, developed for the AI era, simplifies data center management and can cut down operational efforts by up to 40%. As part of our Data Center Fabric solution, EDA is now available in Brazil just two weeks after its global launch, allowing us to work towards our goal with Furukawa to support and advance data center networks in Latin America.”
Nokia is helping cloud builders worldwide to create modern data center networks that are highly reliable, secure, and easy to operate—essential for meeting the growing demands of AI workloads worldwide.
