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Longview IoT Boosts Energy and Wireless Efficiency

By Rich Tehrani on Monday, May 20

Some of the biggest challenges slowing down the adoption of IoT are security, efficient battery usage and optimized wireless communications.One company has...

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Hallmark's Simple, Inexpensive Way to Boost Customer Satisfaction

By Rich Tehrani on Friday, May 17

In an effort to boost margins, companies often push more users to automated solutions such as FAQs, chatbots, voice bots and anything...

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Tagged call center, contact center, crm, customer service, hallmark, net promoter score, nps, tsr

Huawei Places the World's First 5G VoNR Video Call

By Rich Tehrani on Friday, May 17

Huawei recently completed the world's first voice over NR (VoNR) call. The voice and video call service was made using two Huawei...

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IGEL Advances Future of Work

By Rich Tehrani on Thursday, May 16

IGEL is a provider of a next-gen edge OS for cloud workspaces. The company’s software products include IGEL OS, IGEL UD Pocket (UDP) and Universal...

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Tagged automation, displayport, fow, future, future of work, google, green technology, linux, microsoft

Tata Communications and Cisco Collaborate on SD-WAN

By Rich Tehrani on Thursday, May 16

Tata Communications and Cisco have extended their partnership to enable enterprises to transform their legacy network to a customized and secure multi-cloud...

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How to Win the 50-Year-Old China Trade War

By Rich Tehrani on Wednesday, May 15

Today and this week in-fact is historic - the left and right in the U.S. agree that we have a major trade...

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Tagged apple lost american jobs, china, supply chain

Extreme Elements Enables The Autonomous Enterprise

By Rich Tehrani on Wednesday, May 15

Extreme Networks just announced Extreme Elements which in-turn enables the autonomous network and subsequently the autonomous enterprise. In a dynamic webinar, Dan...

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The Secret Value of VoLTE

Edited By Peter Bernstein on April 10, 2014

By Ed Elkin, Director, IP Platforms Marketing, Alcatel-Lucent

At Mobile World Congress, I discovered that many network providers still aren’t aware of the broader business values of voice over LTE (VoLTE). Most knew it readily includes HD voice for clearer calls and reduced background noise, which lets you feel like you’re standing right next to the other person. Most didn’t realize that, in unexpected ways, VoLTE helps them earn more money and increase efficiency.

Posted in A New Conversation Experience, Alcatel-Lucent Technology News, Business Talk, Mobile Data, Mobile Marketing, Next-Generation Communications, WebRTC, Wireless

Tagged: Alcatel-Lucent, conversation APIs, IP communications, LTE, VoLTE, VoLTE networks, WebRTC, wireless networks : Related Tags: alcatel lucent, value volte, consumer customers, services volte, content sharing, volte

How to Kill Shadow IT: Step One - Recognize that Resistance is Futile

Edited By Peter Bernstein on April 10, 2014

By Bryan R. Davies, Senior Director of Enterprise Communications Marketing, Alcatel-Lucent

The first step in resolving any problem is to make sure you understand the core issues. So here’s the crucial question for shadow IT: What is the biggest challenge it presents for your IT department?

Holding back the flood?

Today’s flood of mobile devices and cloud services is making shadow IT a bigger headache than ever before. But it’s nothing new. It started with the first enterprise employee who ever put an application in place without the knowledge or approval of IT staff.

Posted in BYOD, Business Talk, Enterprise, Next-Generation Communications

Tagged: Alcatel-Lucent, BYOD, enterprise communications, Frost & Sullivan, Gartner, New York Times, Shadow IT : Related Tags: biggest challenge, marketing alcatel, disruptive change, highly mobile, alcatel lucent, applications

Agile Optical Networking Breaks Speed Records and Meets Customer Demands

Edited By Peter Bernstein on April 8, 2014

Mae Kowalke, TMCnet Contributor

With adequate bandwidth and network speeds now a cornerstone of life for both businesses and consumers, optical transport is increasingly becoming a key solution for network operators.

The market for optical network equipment is expected to reach $15 billion by 2018, according to research firm, Dell’Oro. Optical transport of the 100G variety is expected to make up 80 percent of that demand.

Communications Industry Researchers (CIR) also recently released a report predicting that the market for 400G will hit $528 million by 2019, and the market for supporting optical components and silicon devices will reach $195 million that year.

Clearly, optical networking matters. It is easy to see why when looking at the recent achievements of Alcatel-Lucent’s agile optical networking technologies.

Posted in Alcatel-Lucent Corporate News, Alcatel-Lucent Technology News, Broadband, Fixed Networks, Next-Generation Communications, Optical Networking

Tagged: Agile Optical Networking, Alcatel-Lucent, BT Group, Guinness World Record, optical networks, Türk Telekom : Related Tags: optical networking, alcatel lucent, optical transport, agile optical, spectral efficiency, optical

Metro Transport Networks in Trouble?

Edited By Peter Bernstein on April 1, 2014

Mae Kowalke, TMCnet Contributor

Spoiler alert: The added capacity of 100G-capable transport systems will not be enough to meet the coming demand within Metro Transport Networks.

First, there are numbers that have service providers worried. A recent Bell Labs study showed that metro traffic will grow by more than 560 percent by 2017, twice the growth of backbone network traffic. The biggest drivers will be video and cloud traffic. Bell Labs also predicts that while 57 percent of network traffic terminated in the metro back in 2012, by 2017 a full 75 percent of traffic will terminate within metro networks.

Posted in Alcatel-Lucent Technology News, Bell Labs Innovation, Broadband, IP Routing and Transport, Next-Generation Communications, Optical Networking

Tagged: Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Labs, Carrier Ethernet, integrated packet transport, metro network, Metro transport : Related Tags: metro networks, packet optimized, metro transport, transport networks, service providers, metro

An Open Access LTE Approach Offers Advantages

Edited By Peter Bernstein on March 18, 2014

An Open Access LTE Approach Offers Advantages

Mae Kowalke, TMCnet Contributor

I must admit that currently I don’t use LTE as much as I write about it. However, this is not for lack of wanting LTE, but rather because I live in the woods where there is not enough coverage. It is more a failure of policy than a failure of technology.

I’m not alone, and the question of how to bring LTE and the societal benefits of comprehensive mobile broadband coverage to the US and other countries is an important discussion.

Recently Bell Labs Advisory Services, the research arm of Alcatel-Lucent, looked at the various models for rolling out LTE in hard to reach places in an interesting paper, Open Access LTE: Reducing LTE Deployment Costs for Rural Broadband Coverage. What it found was that open access LTE, where a single entity owns the spectrum and deploys a nationwide LTE network that then is rented out to mobile network operators, offers significant advantages.

The research showed that adopting an open access LTE strategy could deliver up to a 50 percent increase in adoption over the traditional approach of having each mobile network operator build out their own system.

Posted in Alcatel-Lucent Technology News, Bell Labs Innovation, Broadband, Next-Generation Communications, Wireless

Tagged: Bell Labs Advisory Services, LTE, Mobile broadband, open access LTE, rural broadband : Related Tags: auction model, broadband coverage, overall economic, mobile network, incumbent operators, access

Tuck Telekom with Alcatel-Lucent Help Achieves Data Transfer World Record with 100G Optical Transport

Edited By Peter Bernstein on March 5, 2014

Mae Kowalke, TMCnet Contributor

How much data can be pushed along a single fiber cable in a commercial network? The answer is roughly 8 Terabits per second, according to a new Guinness World Record.

Türk Telekom, Turkey’s leading telecom service provider, broke the record with help from Alcatel-Lucent Agile Optical Networking technology, according to a recent Alcatel-Lucent post. The record, which is the equivalent of transferring 250 high definition movies across the cable per second, relied on Alcatel-Lucent’s 100G optical technology. The transmission took place between Ankara and Istanbul on the Türk Telekom dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) backbone network in the summer of 2013.

Posted in Alcatel-Lucent Technology News, Broadband, Next-Generation Communications, Optical Networking

Tagged: 100G optical technology, 1626 Light Manager, 1830 Photonic Service Switch, Alcatel-Lucent, Guinness World Record, Türk Telekom, Wavelength-division multiplexing : Related Tags: alcatel lucent, guinness world, world record, world records, optical networking, record

Metro Transport Networks Need to Get More Efficient or Choke on Tomorrow's Data

Edited By Peter Bernstein on February 25, 2014

Mae Kowalke, TMCnet Contributor

Metro transport networks are in for a rough ride in the next few years if steps are not taken to ameliorate the impending bandwidth challenge they will face.

Metro networks are expected to grow in traffic by 560 percent by 2017, according to a recent Alcatel-Lucent TechZine post, Retool Metro Transport Networks with Packet-Optimized WDM. That’s because, thanks to the cloud and increasing video usage, the percentage of overall network data is increasingly happening in metro networks. In 2012, 57 percent of data traffic terminated in the metro network. By 2017, according to Alcatel-Lucent estimates, 75 percent will terminate in metro networks.

The short-term solution is to add bandwidth through the addition of higher capacity 100G-capable transport systems. But this is only a quick fix.

Posted in Broadband, Business Talk, LTE, Next-Generation Communications, Wireless

Tagged: Alcatel-Lucent, LTE Advanced, metro networks, Metro transport networks, Mobile network operator, packet-optimized networks, WDM : Related Tags: metro networks, alcatel lucent, packet optimized, metro network, metro transport, metro

Advancing Utility IP Migration Takes Time and Care

Edited By Peter Bernstein on February 19, 2014

Mae Kowalke, TMCnet Contributor

This is the third in the three part series looking at how IP, which has been playing an important role in business transformation for some time, now has become critical to the utilities industry as it is leveraging the transformation of communications networks to IP to maximize smart grid deployments. In short, taking full advantage of things like smart metering and big data means to improve usage, real-time information and improved interoperability.

The future of the smart grid has unfolded slowly partially because adoption is more than a technology issue, and because while businesses want reliability, utilities demand it; a cautious IP migration is almost a given. In fact, part of the path to adoption goes through social challenges, not just technology investment.

Posted in Big Data, Broadband, Business Talk, Fixed Networks, GridTalk, IP Platforms, IP Routing and Transport, IP/MPLS, Next-Generation Communications, Smart Grid

Tagged: Alcatel-Lucent, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, Creos Luxembourg S.A, IP/MPLS, Multiprotocol Label Switching, Utility communications, utility communications networks : Related Tags: future smart, columbia institute, business strategy, strategy research, research columbia, business

IP Migration Picking Up Speed among Utilities

Edited By Peter Bernstein on February 11, 2014

Mae Kowalke, TMCnet Contributor

A few years ago, the idea of a smart grid and things such as smart metering was the stuff of science fiction. But thanks to recent innovations, a utility that is not working on a migration to IP is behind the curve.

In this second of a three-part series on the value of the migration utility infrastructure to IP as the means to enable and enhance the value of smart grids, we look at an expert’s view of the challenges as highlighted in a recent GridTalk posting by Bart Vrancken, utilities solutions architect at Alcatel-Lucent, who noted, “Utilities telecom used to be very simple, handled in the background with a very small team…The explosive growth in intelligent grid devices with communication capabilities was not foreseen at all several years back. But now we see numerous examples of customers deploying these technologies.”

Posted in Alcatel-Lucent Technology News, Broadband, Business Talk, GridTalk, IP Platforms, IP Routing and Transport, IP/MPLS, Next-Generation Communications, Smart Grid

Tagged: Alcatel-Lucent, GridTalk, IP/MPLS, Multiprotocol Label Switching, public utility, Smart grid, utilities telecom : Related Tags: smart grids, deeper network, seamless integration, utilities, migration, network

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