Nokia today announced it has been named by Gartner as a Visionary in the 2025 Magic Quadrant for Data Center Switching. Based on specific criteria established by the research organization, Nokia is cited for overall Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute. In parallel, Nokia has a 4.7/5 star rating on Gartner Peer Insights™ in data center switching based on 15 overall reviews as of 2nd April, 2025. Based on customer experience and product capabilities, the review platform aggregates user feedback.
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At Nokia, we work closely with our customers, which include the largest data centers in the world, to build solutions that address challenges that make a difference in what they want to do. Our strategic direction focuses on three simple words: human error zero.
There are two sources of human error in networks: mistakes that vendors introduce through software bugs and hardware issues, and operational miscues that stem from complex infrastructure. Our data center solutions feature the industry’s highest-quality hardware and software. That’s not a sweeping statement without support. With a developer-to-tester ratio of 1:1, we prioritize quality above all else, and we back it with actual investment in our testing tools and resources. Everything that goes into production anywhere ultimately gets tested. The question is who is doing the testing—you or your supplier. With Nokia products, that answer is clear: it’s us. We complement this commitment to quality with the industry’s most robust multivendor operations platform.
For us, the Gartner report comes at an exciting time. We have been ratcheting up our data center efforts in many different ways. For example:
- We are proud to be a part of Microsoft, CoreWeave, Nscale, and Equinixdata centers.
- We have enhanced our optics portfolio by acquiring Infinera.
- We have added multivendor, intent-based management support.
- We have extended our network operating support to include SONiC.
- We have landed key partnerships with Kyndryland Lenovo.
On top of these achievements, we recently announced that we are redirecting approximately EUR 100 million incremental per year towards our data center ambitions. We will pursue these ambitions under the leadership of data center diehard and Intel alum Justin Hotard.