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Motive Helps Global Service Provider Know When to Upgrade Customers to Ultra-Broadband

Edited By Peter Bernstein on August 12, 2014

By: Mae Kowalke, TMCnet Contributor

As one of the world’s largest network service providers, Norway’s Telenor must constantly upgrade its systems to stay on top. The company runs networks in 12 countries and operations in 29 more, and it has a market capitalization of roughly $38 billion. But it must keep its operations modern to maintain its position, so last year the company decided to upgrade its access network so it could deliver ultra-broadband services and improve the customer experience with ADSL2+ and VDSL2 technology.

Deployment of the upgrade currently is underway, and Telenor expects to have its 500,000 DSL lines migrated to the new VDSL2 platform by 2015, according to a recent case study, Telenor Achieves Competitive Advantage In Ultra-Broadband, on the rollout.

To efficiently deliver ultra-broadband services, however, Telenor needed a way to determine which of its existing DSL lines could be upgraded to VDSL2 without issue, and which ones needed additional infrastructure changes.

Posted in Alcatel-Lucent Technology News, Broadband, Customer Experience, DSL, Fixed Networks, Next-Generation Communications, VDSL2

G.fast Promises a Copper Speed Boost with VDSL2 Vectoring 2.0

Edited By Peter Bernstein on September 3, 2013

By Mae Kowalke, TMCnet Contributor

There was a time when fiber-to the-home was seen as the future of broadband. But all that changed with the introduction of VDSL2 vectoring.

“With a single innovation, the market shifted,” noted Alcatel-Lucent colleagues Paul Spruyt and Dr. Stefaan Vanhastel in a recent blog post, The Numbers are in: Vectoring 2.0 Makes G.fast Faster. “Copper became a valuable commodity again as operators began using their copper assets to deliver fast broadband speeds faster.”

Making that copper even more valuable potentially is the new G.fast standard.

G.fast can increase aggregate bit rates over copper loops shorter than 250 m to fiber speeds of more than 1 Gb/s, the authors explained. It also delivers a cost advantage over deploying fiber directly to the home.

The trouble is that G.fast suffers from crosstalk even more than VDSL2. Tests by Bell Labs on older, unshielded cables in Austria showed that G.fast reached speeds of 500 Mb/s over 100 m when a single line was active, but they fell to a measly 60 MB/s when crosstalk was introduced as a result of a second G.fast line being added.

Posted in Alcatel-Lucent Technology News, Bell Labs Innovation, Broadband, DSL, Fixed Networks, Next-Generation Communications

Achieving Network Optimization, Cost Savings with IP/MPLS Backhaul Solutions from Alcatel-Lucent

Edited By Peter Bernstein on March 12, 2012

By Beecher Tuttle

Delivering high-quality, high-bandwidth business service connectivity at an economical price point is critical for today's service providers, who are being challenged by unremitting competition and ever-increasing subscriber traffic growth.

With this in mind, many forward-thinking operators have turned to Digital Subscriber Link (DSL) and Gigabit Passive Optical Networks (GPON) as access technologies for mobile backhaul (MBH) and business service delivery. These networks have been proven to provide high reliability and availability at a cost-effective price point using IP/MPLS backhaul.

Posted in Alcatel-Lucent Corporate News, Alcatel-Lucent Technology News, Broadband, DSL, IP/MPLS, Next-Generation Communications, Wireless

Driving DSL Network Performance Excellence with Motive Network Analyzer

Edited By Peter Bernstein on December 5, 2011

Susan J. Campbell

Driving DSL Network Performance Excellence with Motive Network Analyzer

A dramatic rise in the performance required of digital subscriber line (DSL) networks is being caused by consumer adoption of bandwidth-demanding triple-play services. With the support of new real-time voice and high-definition video services, DSL network lines are now operating closer to their physical limits. This is straining copper and fiber capabilities and making them more vulnerable to quality and stability problems in delivering high quality experiences to individual households.

To meet these challenges, service providers must have the right tools and processes to meet the expectations of customers on DSL networks, while also preventing the escalation of operational expenses (OPEX) in doing so even as migrations to all fiber connections are taking place.

This fall Alcatel-Lucent announced that its Motive Network Analyzer surpassed the 100 customer mark. The big draw for this solution is its ability to enable service providers to identify, diagnose and troubleshoot all DSL problems across fiber and copper that can affect the customers’ experience when leveraging broadband service.

Posted in Alcatel-Lucent Corporate News, Alcatel-Lucent Technology News, Broadband, DSL, Next-Generation Communications

How can I enable a single, unified sign on for my customers across multiple screens?

Edited By Erik Linask on November 29, 2009

By leveraging technology like Alcatel-Lucent's TPSDA, operators will be able to eliminate the traditional gaps between different devices and different access technologies, unifying all services for their subscribers on a single architecture.

Posted in Alcatel-Lucent Technology News, Broadband, DSL, LTE, Next-Generation Communications, Web 2.0, WiMAX, Wireless

A look at the future: Re-defining the communications partner ecosystem

Edited By Erik Linask on November 23, 2009

The services and capabilities that have, until now, served carriers well, are only a part of what subscribers are demanding - they want more services and applications, more access, and more integration with their various access devices and networks.

Posted in Alcatel-Lucent Technology News, Broadband, DSL, LTE, Next-Generation Communications, Web 2.0, WiMAX, Wireless

Competition vs. Collaboration: Strategies for New Revenue Generation

Edited By Erik Linask on November 16, 2009

The idea is that working in tandem with other industry experts facilitates more rapid development of products that will be more widely available, more reliable, and more cost effective to develop. In addition, market acceptance is increased due to the collaborative nature of the product(s) - there is less hesitation resulting from the perception of single-vendor bias.

Posted in Alcatel-Lucent Technology News, Broadband, DSL, LTE, Next-Generation Communications, Research, Security, Web 2.0, WiMAX, Wireless, ng Connect

Using Multimedia Content Management Solutions to Drive New Revenue While Increasing QoE

Edited By Erik Linask on October 4, 2009

The evolution of networks, content, applications, and devices, combined with user's understanding of the capabilities available to them and their new expectations that result from this enlightenment make it critical for providers to be able to leverage flexible service delivery and management infrastructures.

Posted in Alcatel-Lucent Technology News, Broadband, DSL, LTE, Next-Generation Communications, Web 2.0, WiMAX, Wireless, ng Connect

Speed Introduction of New Intelligent Applications and Time to Revenue

Edited By Erik Linask on September 14, 2009

By collaborating closely with third-party developers and content providers - and by allowing them greater access to network resources, including QoS capabilities, network-based storage, and key subscriber and device data - operators will not only create long-lasting relationships with these providers by increasing their networks' value to them, but will also allow intelligent, contextual applications and services to be more efficiently developed and rolled out, lowering all-important time to revenue.

Posted in Alcatel-Lucent Technology News, Broadband, DSL, LTE, Next-Generation Communications, Web 2.0, WiMAX, Wireless

Evolve to a More Stable Business Model and Create New Revenue Opportunities

Edited By Erik Linask on September 7, 2009

By embracing a the applications enablement ideal, and a high leverage network, operators will put themselves, and their partners, well on the path to a sustainable, mutually beneficial business model for the next generation communications environment. And ultimately, both will benefit from the ability to combine to deliver new, innovative, and rich set of applications to the user community.

Posted in Alcatel-Lucent Technology News, Broadband, DSL, LTE, Next-Generation Communications, Web 2.0, WiMAX, Wireless, ng Connect

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