Nokia launches world's fastest network chips used for routers

Nokia announced the launch of world's fastest chip, making a breakthrough into the core router market dominated by rivals Juniper and Cisco, giving a boost to its existing network business.

The new Nokia products promise it to help win business with so-called web customers such as Facebook, Google and Amazon for whom transmission speed is everything and who are still increasing spending on network gear.

Ray Mota, principal analyst, ACG Research in an official statement said: "With this announcement, Nokia will have the highest-performance system capacity in the market, and a lot of those web-scalers, they just want speed. That gives them an opportunity to approach the core network market with more credibility and gain some traction there."

The new traffic routers can handle greater demands of virtual reality programming, cloud-based internet services and next-gen mobile communications. Nokia also announced that its FP4 silicon chipset will enable webscale operators and service providers to build faster, more secure networks.

"The company has also built intelligent memory into its chip.The new FP4-based routing platforms are the company’s first that deliver terabit IP flows. This is a 10-time improvement over existing 100 Gb per second links", said Steve Vogelsang, CTO for Nokia’s IP and optical business.

The company is also introducing 7950-petabit class router aimed at the core routing market to help them secure business from big tech giants such as Apple and Facebook. A petabit can transmit 5000 two hour long high definition videos per second.

For Edge network customers, Nokia is introducing its 7750 routers offering the highest traffic capacity in the market, delivering speeds up to 4.8 terabits per slot compared to Junipers 3 terabit edge router speeds.