FPcx routing silicon

Introducing Nokia’s newest family of fully programmable routing silicon – the FPcx.  It brings the value of Nokia’s high-performance and feature-rich FP silicon into a compact and extensible package optimized for IP access, aggregation, and smaller edge applications. It allows you to deliver secure, deterministic, and resilient IP network services, while offering unmatched flexibility to quickly adapt to new requirements.

The key attributes of FPcx IP silicon bring tremendous benefits to IP networks.

FPcx custom silicon is designed to help CSPs and mission-critical enterprises who require advanced routing capabilities in right-sized platforms with deterministic connectivity, end-to-end reliability, resiliency and security in their IP access, aggregation, and edge networks to deliver secure, assured, and sustainable services.

Network security can no longer be an afterthought in IP network design and deployment. To support new mission-critical applications and protect services and infrastructure links, IP networks must provide guaranteed high performance and secure connectivity.

To avoid the high cost and complexity of “bolt-on” network security models, the FPcx-powered 7730 SXR routing platforms deliver advanced, built-in security capabilities without impacting performance. This includes support for advanced filtering to mitigate distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. When used in conjunction with Nokia Deepfield Defender, they act as precise sensor and mitigation elements. This is complemented by line-rate encryption, including ANYsec. Moving beyond MACsec and IPsec, ANYsec provides line-rate encryption in a low-latency, service-oriented fashion delivered either hop-by-hop or end-to-end as a security overlay. It can be used to secure internal network links or to deliver secure services by turning encryption on whenever and wherever it’s required.

FPcx powers the 7730 Service Interconnect Router (SXR), a new family of IP routers. It is scaled with right-sized performance, capacity, and speed for IP access, aggregation, and edge networks.

The FPcx supports 1GE to 400GE interfaces with flexible 4x10G, 4x25G, 2x100G, 4x100G and 1x400G break-out options allowing you to meet a wide range of interface and density requirements.

One of the key announcements from Nokia’s 2023 SReXperts Americas event was the new 7730 Service Interconnect Routers (SXR) and FPcx routing silicon. Grant Lenahan takes a look at the specs, explains the positioning and significance of these new offerings – and why they represent both a continuation of Nokia’s technical lineage, as well as a disruptive market innovation.