Nokia may have hit a low point in its bedrock mobile RAN business, with setbacks to its 5G platform still hitting confidence in the vendor, but it has been more successful than arch-rival Ericsson is expanding its commercial offering beyond telcos. We have often covered its development of cloud platforms and flexible networks to support enterprises and private operators. Another important area of targeted expansion is the webscale space, where Nokia has been building on switch and router assets acquired with Alcatel-Lucent to move beyond carriers. Its ‘petabit’ router and underlying processor architecture, unveiled last year, is one example of a product that, while it could be adopted by a high end telco, is primarily aimed at cloud infrastructure companies…