Enterprise AI Gets Its Backbone: Stelia and Nokia Move Beyond the GPU Hype
Stelia AI today announced a collaboration with Nokia to advance the deployment of high-performance, high-trust artificial intelligence at enterprise scale, combining AI platform capabilities with open-standards-based networking infrastructure.
Under the collaboration, Stelia will integrate Nokia’s networking technology into its AI ecosystem to support reliable performance across distributed enterprise environments. The combined approach is designed to enable consistent and secure data flow across operational sites, edge locations, and cloud platforms, supporting production-grade AI deployments in complex, data-intensive settings.
Stelia’s platform is positioned as an operational backbone for governed, production-quality AI, particularly in environments where organizations are moving beyond pilot programs and into full-scale deployment. As enterprises apply AI to real-world use cases, including autonomous and agentic systems, requirements for governance, compliance, and auditability are increasing alongside the need for resilient and secure connectivity.
By combining Stelia’s full-stack AI capabilities, including embedded governance, with Nokia’s networking expertise, the companies aim to address these challenges by ensuring continuous, high-throughput, and low-latency data movement across distributed infrastructure. This is intended to support AI systems that can operate reliably under demanding conditions while maintaining enterprise-grade standards for security and performance.
“The industry needs to completely rethink how AI is architected as we move to outcome-driven engineering and production-grade resilience,” said Dave Hughes, CTO at Stelia. “Success is no longer defined by the size of a GPU cluster in the middle of nowhere. It is defined by the ability to safely and effectively orchestrate a workload through all stages of the AI lifecycle, and connect systems, people, and data across entire organisations — enabling continuous, high-throughput, low-latency data movement across distributed infrastructure.”
“As enterprises deploy AI across increasingly distributed environments, the network becomes a critical foundation for performance, security and reliability,” said Paul Alexander, Vice President and Country Manager at Nokia. “Our collaboration with Stelia integrates Nokia’s open, high-performance networking technology with Stelia’s enterprise AI platform, helping organisations support demanding AI workloads while maintaining the trust, governance and connectivity required for real-world operations.”
The companies stated that, together with Stelia’s broader partner ecosystem, the collaboration is intended to support enterprise AI deployments across multiple industries, including space, media and entertainment, retail, and finance, enabling organizations to scale AI use cases while maintaining operational control and measurable performance outcomes.