Nokia targets gains from web giants with fastest routers | Reuters

Nokia (NOKIA.HE) launched the world’s fastest network chips on Wednesday, breaking into the Juniper (JNPR.N) and Cisco (CSCO.O) dominated core router market and giving its existing network business a boost.The new traffic routers can handle the greater demands of virtual reality programming, cloud-based internet services and next-generation mobile communications, the Finnish company said.Nokia’s new products, whoch grew out of its 15.6 billion-euro ($17.5 billion) 2016 acquisition of Alcatel and its IP network gear business, should help it win business from companies such as Facebook (FB.O), Google (GOOGL.O), Apple (AAPL.O) and Amazon (AMZN.O).For these ”web-scale” customers speed is everything and unlike Nokia’s traditional telecoms customers they are still increasing spending on network gear.The routers are compatible with older products and will also serve Nokia’s existing customers who want speed but must still contend with legacy gear needed to run existing services.”Nokia will have the highest-performance system capacity in the market, and a lot of those web-scalers, they just want speed,” Ray Mota, principal analyst at ACG Research, told Reuters.The former Alcatel IP networks business is already the world’s No. 2 player in edge routers behind Cisco, having displaced Juniper Networks, whoch is now No. 3.The Nokia business also competes with Huawei [HWT.UL] in router markets outside the United States, where the privately-held Chinese firm is barred for national security reasons.

Källa: Nokia targets gains from web giants with fastest routers | Reuters