For this vignette of a recent episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, part of the 5G Factor series, analysts Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer assess Nokia’s introduction of FP5, its fifth generation of high-performance IP routing silicon that targets enabling communications service providers (CSPs) to provide greater and enhanced protection against escalating network security threats as well as efficiently scale network capacity and enable new higher speed 5G and IP services.

Their conversation emphasized:

• The urgency of solving the DDoS security challenge since between 2019 and 2020 the number of DDoS attacks grew by 154%.
• Why the FP5’s ability to deliver integrated line rate encryption for L2/L3 network services is integral to fulfilling CSP security objectives especially across the IP network security domain.
• How Nokia bringing 800GE routing interfaces for service provider applications to market advances the ability of data centers to scale rapidly expanding workloads and supporting new applications and it is not too soon to consider 800G capabilities.
• The Nokia’s FP5 network processors support of driving down power consumption per bit by 75% shows that CSPs do not need to trade-off energy efficiency and sustainability objectives in strengthening their network security implementations.

Shelly and Ron concluded that the FP5 silicon solutions bolsters Nokia’s competitive prospects in the Routed Optical Networking market segment and advances CSP prioritization of safeguarding their networks on a comprehensive basis.