Nokia refreshed its in-house routing silicon for the first time since 2017, significantly increasing capacity, slashing power consumption and integrating encryption to boost security in its new FP5 chip.
The FP5 features a 4.8 Tbps network processor, doubling the 2.4 Tbps available on the FP4, and is the first chip in Nokia’s lineup to support 800-gig Ethernet routing interfaces. Heidi Adams, Nokia’s head of IP and Optical product marketing, told Fierce the silicon also comes with a built-in intelligent aggregation capability which can be switched on to further increase capacity.
