Wedoany.com Report-Nov. 24, Nokia has achieved Platinum-level membership in the Open Compute Project (OCP), a global community of over 500 organisations dedicated to open, scalable, and efficient data centre and network infrastructure. This step strengthens Nokia’s role in developing next-generation networking solutions designed for the rapidly growing demands of artificial intelligence applications.

Current data centre architectures, originally built for traditional enterprise workloads, now face significant capacity, power, and scalability constraints due to the exponential increase in AI traffic. As AI models grow larger and more distributed, multiple data centres must be interconnected efficiently across locations.

Nokia contributes extensive expertise in integrated optical and IP networking, AI-native wireless systems, high-speed optical interconnects, passive optical network (PON) management, and automated network operations. These technologies enable higher performance, lower energy consumption, and seamless scaling both within individual facilities and between geographically dispersed sites.

George Tchaparian, Chief Executive Officer at OCP, said: “We are pleased to welcome Nokia to the Open Compute Project (OCP) Community as a Platinum Member. Data Center (DC) operators are seeking dependable, efficient and open adoptable technologies to build and scale their AI Clusters, scaling-up and out within their DCs and scaling across DCs. As a leading industry player, Nokia will bring valuable expertise to the OCP Community, collaborating to drive innovation while reducing development time, costs and complexity for all industry participants.”

Pallavi Mahajan, Chief Technology and AI Officer at Nokia, stated: “As AI reshapes data center architectures, we are excited to join the Open Compute Project Community as a Platinum member. The design and delivery of new solutions will require open standards, innovation and collaboration between data center technology vendors and operators. We look forward to working with OCP Community members, to bring new ideas that meet the highest levels of scale, reliability and efficiency to AI data centers and edge operations.”

Nokia’s data centre networking portfolio includes high-capacity fabric switches, advanced optics for intra-data-centre connectivity, and comprehensive IP and optical transport systems that link facilities across regions. These solutions deliver enhanced throughput, reduced latency, and improved energy efficiency for AI-intensive environments.

By participating at the highest membership level in OCP, Nokia reinforces its commitment to industry-wide collaboration based on open standards. The partnership aims to accelerate the development and deployment of infrastructure capable of supporting large-scale AI training, inference, and real-time processing across distributed cloud and edge networks.

This membership aligns with broader industry efforts to create flexible, cost-effective, and sustainable architectures that can adapt to the continuing evolution of artificial intelligence workloads while maintaining high levels of performance and operational reliability.