Nokia has partnered with Empyrion Digital on a newly-launched data center in South Korea.

The deal with the Singapore-headquartered infrastructure provider will see Nokia provide data center gateways and aggregation switches in the Gangnam Data Center (GDC), based in the eponymous Seoul district.

Nokia confirmed its 7210 Service Access System (SAS) will be used as the access switch for Empyrion’s IT systems.

Switches come from Nokia’s 7250 interconnect router (IXR) line, as used by Microsoft, CoreSite, and Orange Belgium, among others.

Released in mid-2020, the line supports multi-terabit connectivity and is designed to span top-of-rack switches, spine switches, super-spine switches, and modular chassis spine switches. It can support port speeds up to 400-gigabit Ethernet (400GE), with a claimed path to 800GE.

“Nokia’s strong track record, robust IP network solutions, combined with its strong regional supply chain and service footprint, made it a natural choice to strengthen our network, said Yongsuk Choi, chief strategy officer, product and infrastructure, Empyrion Digital.

"Beyond Korea, we are looking forward to working with Nokia in accelerating the digital transformation in the region."

“Our field-proven solutions are helping digital infrastructure providers across the Asia-Pacific region to benefit from improved scalability and reliability while making the networks more energy efficient,” said Kent Wong, VP and head of IP Networks for Asia Pacific at Nokia.

While Nokia’s recent financials reported a flat performance for the European telecom giant, its network infrastructure segment saw an 8% year-on-year increase, which it attributed to its recent acquisition of Infinera, the optical networking firm Nokia bought for $2.3 billion in March of this year.