June 2015

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Why CSPs Will Retain a Strong Position in Video Services

Edited By Peter Bernstein on June 23, 2015

By: Paula Bernier, TMC Executive Editor

Facilities-based service providers that own the access network are ideally positioned to distribute video both today and in the future, according to Chris Croupe, who works in strategic marketing at Alcatel-Lucent. Video comes in a variety of forms, its applications continue to expand, and this kind of content continues to multiply, Croupe notes in his recent TechZine posting, Future of video content: Evolution toward 2020.

Calls leveraging video have become widespread, he adds, noting that 59 percent of smartphone users under 35 years of age make at least one video call a month, and 37 percent of this group does so at least once a week.

Posted in Alcatel-Lucent Technology News, Broadband, IP Platforms, Next-Generation Communications, VoLTE

Tagged: Alcatel-Lucent, bandwidth consumption, Bell Labs, content delivery network, OTTs, video content, video services, video streaming : Related Tags: alcatel lucent, service providers, online video, watching video, video continues, video

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For In-Building Cellular Small Cells Have You Covered

Edited By Peter Bernstein on June 15, 2015

By: Mae Kowalke, TMCnet Contributor

Large office buildings sometimes encounter a troubling problem in the form of poor cellular reception for employees. With atriums, business space in basements, internal walls and glass windows, more than one “modern architectural masterpiece” has discovered that workers lose cell coverage when they enter the building.

Of course, there are steps that can fix such problems even after a building is constructed. One of the best options is small cells technology for good in-building cellular coverage.

Posted in Alcatel-Lucent Technology News, Enterprise, Mobile Data, Next-Generation Communications, Small Cells, Wireless

Tagged: Alcatel-Lucent, cellular network, in-building cellular, in-building communications, Small cells, wireless networking : Related Tags: building cellular, cells technology, taken account, cells, coverage, building

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Analyzing the mobile devices connected to today's network

Edited By Peter Bernstein on June 12, 2015

By: Patrick McCabe, Senior Marketing Manager, Alcatel-Lucent

We know from our own experience and from anecdotal evidence that mobile devices are proliferating and that mobile data usage is growing rapidly. This tremendous change necessitates change to the underlying network, too. But in order to make the best choices in terms of infrastructure investment, mobile service providers must have accurate data showing what devices are being used and which consume the most data and signaling resources.

Posted in Alcatel-Lucent Technology News, Analytics, Big Data, Mobile Data, Next-Generation Communications, Wireless

Tagged: Alcatel-Lucent, Android, big data, big data analytics, iOS, Motive Big Data Analytics, Motive Wireless Nework Guardian, webinar : Related Tags: signaling activity, mobile devices, share signaling, subscriber share, mobile device, network

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CSPs Can Leverage Self-Help Apps to Unburden Help Desks

Edited By Peter Bernstein on June 9, 2015

By: Paula Bernier, TMC Executive Editor

The Internet and the smartphone have altered customer expectations related to service. They have both elevated the requirement for fast results in terms of response times, and they have made consumers more comfortable with finding answers themselves using the devices in their hands and the information that is now at their fingertips.

Meanwhile, communications providers continue to expand the ever-growing number of services they offer to consumers. That now includes an array of Internet access, mobile, and TV services. The growing number of CSP services and customers also increases the potential for more help desk inquiries.

Posted in A New Conversation Experience, Alcatel-Lucent Technology News, Customer Care, Customer Experience, Next-Generation Communications

Tagged: Alcatel-Lucent, communications service providers, CSPs, Customer experience, help desk, Motive, self-help, self-service : Related Tags: customer experience, white paper, growing number, alcatel lucent, nearly million, service

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Virtual Residential Gateways

Edited By Peter Bernstein on June 9, 2015

Posting has been updated and moved. Click on new title to be directed to: Virtual Residential Gateways Offer a Lot to Operators.

Posted in Next-Generation Communications

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New network service platform adds agility to cloud computing

Edited By Peter Bernstein on June 1, 2015

Guest blog: Paul Parker-Johnson, leader of cloud and virtual system infrastructures practice at ACG Research

Alcatel-Lucent has developed its Network Services Platform (NSP) as a unified solution for creating agility in delivering network services. NSP brings efficiency and flexibility to the front-end problems of new service creation and the immediately downstream problems of operating those services efficiently and intelligently in a multilayer, multidomain, multivendor network. It does so in a unified and holistically designed solution.

Remarkable gains have been made in the cloud computing community to create and deploy new services efficiently and at scale. It’s also true that a significant impediment to service delivery is the rigidity of networks we deploy and processes used to define and instantiate services being offered.

A great deal of energy has been expended in recent years to enhance the flexibility of networks. Solutions have begun to appear that address parts of the problem, but to date they have been constrained to a particular function or domain and haven’t actually solved the whole agile service delivery problem for networks.

Until the Alcatel-Lucent NSP.

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

Tagged: ACG Research, Alcatel-Lucent, Network Services Platform, NSP, OSS/BSS, RESful APIs, service delivery platform : Related Tags: alcatel lucent, cloud computing, service delivery, network service, network services, service

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Not All Virtual Route Reflectors Are Created Equal

Edited By Peter Bernstein on June 1, 2015

By: Mae Kowalke, TMCnet Contributor

Border gateway protocol (BGP) route reflectors have played an important role for decades, since they help remove the need for a full internal BGP mesh within an autonomous system.

Currently, most route reflectors run either on a router that is dedicated to route reflection, or on routers that also perform other IP routing and service functions. Both scenarios have downsides.

Dedicated BGP route reflectors are a waste because route reflection functions require minimal data plane resources. Routers that juggle route reflection with other duties, on the other hand, may not have sufficient resources to support scalable route reflection.

Posted in Alcatel-Lucent Technology News, Broadband, IP Routing and Transport, NFV, Next-Generation Communications, TechZine

Tagged: Alcatel-Lucent, BGP, Border gateway protocol, network virtualizaton, NFV, Symmetric Multi Processing, Virtual Route Reflectors, virtualization, vRR : Related Tags: route reflection, route reflectors, virtual route, route reflector, created equal, route

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Next Generation Communications

June 2015

Why CSPs Will Retain a Strong Position in Video Services

For In-Building Cellular Small Cells Have You Covered

Analyzing the mobile devices connected to today's network

CSPs Can Leverage Self-Help Apps to Unburden Help Desks

Virtual Residential Gateways

New network service platform adds agility to cloud computing

Not All Virtual Route Reflectors Are Created Equal