Next-Generation Communications

200G Optical Networks: What you need to know

Edited By Peter Bernstein on July 14, 2014

By: Earl Kennedy, IP Transport Product Marketing, Alcatel-Lucent

Optical network operators have already made the move to 100G. But skyrocketing bandwidth demand means many are already pondering what’s next. With a 200G optical solution hitting the market, you probably have questions about when to move to 200G optical – and what you need to know when you make that move.

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

Alcatel-Lucent in Action: a year of progress and look to the future

Edited By Peter Bernstein on July 10, 2014

Sustainability, Alcatel-Lucent

“Alcatel-Lucent in Action” is the story of one year of action to transform our company and position it for innovation and growth.

Posted in Alcatel-Lucent Corporate News, Bell Labs Innovation, Eco-sustainability, Next-Generation Communications

How signaling saps phone batteries - and what you can do about it

Edited By Peter Bernstein on July 9, 2014

By: Josee Loudiadis, Director of Network Intelligence, Alcatel-Lucent (@joseeloudiadis)

What do consumers know about the effects of signaling? We pay attention to our data plan costs — such as how many bytes of data we use for Skype calls, sending photos or watching YouTube videos. But signaling remains mysterious, because we don’t pay for it in any obvious way. And because it operates transparently, we are not aware of its impact.

Posted in Alcatel-Lucent Technology News, BYOD, Customer Experience, Mobile Data, Next-Generation Communications, Social Media, Wireless

Rankings have arrived: Mobile Apps' Impact on Networks and Consumers

Edited By Peter Bernstein on July 2, 2014

By Josee Loudiadis, Alcatel-Lucent

Operators, consumers and application developers are fully interconnected in the mobile world. Yet they rarely recognize the impact they have on each other. That’s why Alcatel-Lucent has released its Mobile Application Rankings report — to increase awareness among consumers and the mobile industry and to promote app optimization. Here’s a sampling of the “blind spots” the report addresses:

Posted in Alcatel-Lucent Technology News, BYOD, Customer Experience, Mobile Data, Next-Generation Communications, Wireless

Hackathon Generates New Conversations, New Applications and Potential Revenue Opportunities

Edited By Peter Bernstein on June 24, 2014

By: Gilles Duboué, IP Platforms Innovation Marketing, Alcatel-Lucent

Recently in Munich, Alcatel-Lucent ran a 12 hour Hackathon that pitted the industry’s best and brightest developers against each other. The mission: build the most original, compelling and marketable app using New Conversation APIs.

New Conversation APIs make the rich functionality of IP Communications simple to mash up into applications. By enabling developers to easily integrated voice, video, data and contact information into any app, service providers can innovate faster – providing entirely new communications experiences to end users from any screen, device and network. They enable operators to explore new opportunities for enhancing retail services and to pursue new wholesale markets through application partners (web, verticals, M2P, M2M…).

Posted in A New Conversation Experience, Alcatel-Lucent Corporate News, Alcatel-Lucent Technology News, Business Talk, Customer Experience, Enterprise, Next-Generation Communications, VoLTE, WebRTC

NFV INSIGHTS: The making of NFV security - "from vision to reality"

Edited By Peter Bernstein on June 16, 2014

By: David Amzallag - Alcatel-Lucent Vice President, Virtual Telecommunications and CloudBand CTO

While network functions virtualization (NFV) introduces new challenges to security, it also presents unique opportunities for addressing security problems due to the unprecedented scale, flexibility, and central control it affords. Compute, storage, and network resources can be optimally allocated and stitched together as required by the security policy. Our approach to address NFV security is based on a recursive, divide-and-conquer methodology, which involves securing the Alcatel-Lucent CloudBand™ NFV Platform, cloud nodes, and the network that interconnects them. CloudBand uses policy-based placement capabilities enabled by the CloudBand Management System to install virtualized functions in their appropriate security zones, and re-uses the security services provided by NFV applications.

I thought it would be a good idea to describe the journey to this approach together with its "making of" episodes.

Posted in Alcatel-Lucent Technology News, Business Talk, Cloud, NFV, Next-Generation Communications

Bell Labs and the Art of Disruptive Innovation

Edited By Peter Bernstein on June 10, 2014

Mae Kowalke, TMCnet Contributor

Innovation takes many forms. But when it comes to the art of disruption, often it comes from quarters least expected. The breakthroughs that change the world are not something that can be forced or fully anticipated.

The foundation can be laid for disruptive innovation, however, as world-renowned research outfit Bell Labs well knows. Bell Labs, the research arm of Alcatel-Lucent, has been behind breakthroughs in innovation for generations.

Posted in Alcatel-Lucent Corporate News, Alcatel-Lucent Technology News, Bell Labs Innovation, Next-Generation Communications, Research

10 Ways to drive mobile data growth through the youth market

Edited By Peter Bernstein on June 10, 2014

By Daisy Su, Senior Strategic Marketing Manager, Corporate Marketing, Alcatel-Lucent (@daisysu)

Last week, I talked about mobile operators are building an overall brand experience that engages young consumers because the youth segment is valuable — and do influence adult segments. In addition to creating a youth brand or a youthful brand, mobile operators must also consider how to craft specific offers that promote the “mobile data first” experience to drive mobile data growth through the youth market.

Here are the 10 ideas that can help craft the “mobile data first” offers using an online charging solution (OCS).

Posted in A New Conversation Experience, Business Talk, Mobile Data, Mobile Marketing, Next-Generation Communications, Wireless

Ethernet VPN (EVPN) - Networks for Ethernet Services

Edited By Peter Bernstein on June 6, 2014

By: Greg Hankins, Senior Product Line Manager, Alcatel-Lucent

I’ve been talking a lot about EVPN recently at network operator conferences around the world, because I’m really excited about this new technology. EVPN offers an alternative to VPLS that integrates both Layer 2 and Layer 3 services, and can run over simple IP networks with ECMP for resiliency and load balancing. EVPN is an interesting new technology if you are providing a Layer 2 infrastructure over multiple sites, delivering integrated Layer 2/Layer 3 services, or providing cloud services.

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

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