India, Nov. 14 -- Nokia has announced an expansion of its data centre networking portfolio to address increasing performance and scalability needs associated with AI workloads. The company is introducing a new family of 7220 Interconnect Router (IXR) high-performance data centre switches, alongside updated Artificial Intelligence for Operations (AIOps) capabilities for its Event-Driven Automation (EDA) management platform. The 7220 IXR-H6 series is designed to support a wide range of deployment requirements.

The 7220 IXR-H6 switches offer throughput of up to 102.4 Tb/s, with interface speeds of 800 Gigabit Ethernet and 1.6 Terabit Ethernet. This provides increased capacity within the same physical footprint, reflecting the growing scalab...