Nokia today announced that it was chosen by the Information and Coordination Center of Ponto BR (NIC.br), an entity linked to the Internet Steering Committee in Brazil (CGI.br), to increase the performance of IX.br (Brazil Internet Exchange), the largest set of Internet Exchange Points (PTT) in the world. Nokia's advanced IP routing solutions will support NIC.br in its mission to interconnect the Brazilian Internet ecosystem in the dimensions of growth and reliability. The NIC.br network update occurs at a time when the country faces a massive growth of Internet traffic and data close to 5 million users, which will reach 1 billion 5 years of (1 billion users).
NIC.br is responsible, among several initiatives, for registering and maintaining the .br domain, in addition to, through the IX.br project, deploying and promoting the infrastructure for the direct interconnection between the networks that make up the Internet in Brazil. The project currently has 36 Traffic Exchange Points (PTTs) distributed in metropolitan areas of the five regions of the country and connects more than 3,500 Autonomous Systems (Autonomous Systems, AS), facilitating data traffic between Internet service providers, content providers, hosting service providers, hyperscalers, among other network operators, advancing the network's resilience, with a better network's routing capability.
Part of the NIC.br technology will be replaced by Nokia 7250 and 7750 (IXR) routers, which operate with EVPN services and 400/800G interfaces.Nokia is an industry leader in standardization and expansion of the EVPN protocol, a state-of-the-art VPN solution that provides a unified architecture, both in the control plane and in the data plane, and operates with a wide range of carriers, corporate VPN services and network infrastructures. EVPN offers a variety of benefits to service providers and their customers, such as greater efficiency, reliability, scalability and simplification of infrastructures with advanced automation.
Julio Sirota, Infrastructure Manager at IX.br/NIC.br“A Nokia is trusted and strategic to us, and has proven its ability to provide next-generation network solutions that meet our needs and expectations.By upgrading our network infrastructure with Nokia's routing platforms, we will be able to deliver faster and more reliable connectivity to our customers and partners, as well as fostering the development of new applications and services that will benefit the entire Brazilian society
Vach Kompella, Vice President of IP Networks, Nokia, said: “Gigantes of traffic interconnection points like NIC.br are at the forefront of Internet traffic and data management, in their relentless growth spurred by hyperscalers, ISPs, content providers and network operators. The network upgrade of NIC.br, with increases in capacity, reliability and automation, is essential to keep up with the exponential growth of the Internet in Brazil.Nokia routing solutions are designed to deal with the most demanding traffic environments in the world and enable the delivery of high quality services such as EVPN.We are very happy to work with NIC.br in its purpose of expanding and making the Internet more powerful.
