The Future Of Converged Policy Control: 5780 DSC Policy Control Module
Service providers are faced with a need to reinvent themselves to capture new opportunities in this era of mobile data. One prospect for the service providers is to address their subscribers demand for more personalized services.

Alcatel-Lucent IP And Microwave Integration
As mobile network infrastructures evolve from time division multiplexing (TDM) to IP, and with the shift in radio technology from 2G/3G to LTE and beyond, the ability to extend IP/MPLS networking out to the furthest reaches of the mobile backhaul network delivers real operational value.

Get to Fast, Faster
As service providers face rapidly increasing bandwidth demand from consumers, businesses and governments, they are recognizing the need for immediate access to faster speeds.

Application Performance Management For Business VPN Services
Application performance management has become a significant area of focus not only for service providers looking to provide value-added WAN optimization services, but also for those service providers looking to provide application-based SLAs as part of their cloud strategy. Alcatel-Lucent 5670 Reporting and Analysis Manager (RAM) has the capability to collect, analyze and report on application performance and behavior, as well as end-user quality of experience.

Delivering An Intelligent Electricity Network For Future Generations
As part of this communications transformation, EnergyAustralia is deploying Alcatel-Lucent's carrier-grade Internet protocol (IP) solutions to eventually connect 200 major electricity substations and network operations centres via a single, reliable and costeffective communications network.

Advanced Analytics For Residential Application Assurance
The Alcatel-Lucent Application Assurance (AA) solution offers residential service providers the capability to develop differentiated services. These new personalized broadband services deliver a higher Quality of Experience (QoE) for subscribers and reduce the total cost of ownership for required service provider network infrastructure.

Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router
The 7750 SR combines advanced edge routing and 3GPP mobile gateway functions in a single element with exceptional performance and scalability and with high operational flexibility, to address the exponential rise in the number of mobile users, connected devices and network applications.

Advanced Analytics For Business VPN Application Assurance
An Alcatel-Lucent Application Assured VPN (AA-VPN) offers service providers the capability to develop differentiated, revenue-generating business VPN services while solving critical challenges for enterprise customers as they centralize application delivery and ultimately adopt cloud services.

Wi-Fi Professional Services
Due to Wi-Fi's unlicensed nature, some operators have been skeptical of it and even viewed Wi-Fi as a direct threat to their licensed spectrum offerings. Opinions have changed with the availability of Carrier Wi-Fi, and it is now regarded as a strategic solution for both wireline and mobile operators.

Motive ServiceView for Mobile
Motive ServiceView for Mobile builds a simpler and better customer experience around the mobile device. This solution empowers service providers to pursue a holistic customer experience management vision by combining capabilities like device activation, comprehensive care services and big data analytics.

LTE For Metro Railway Operations
This white paper examines the following topics:
  • The value proposition of LTE as a means to support next-generation train-to-wayside communications (TWC) for urban train operations
  • The challenges involved in adopting LTE technology
  • How the Alcatel-Lucent LTE-based TWC solution meets the requirements for next-generation TWC
  • Strategies for overcoming the challenges involved in adopting LTE

Rapid Business Assessments For Healthcare
Healthcare IT departments are stretched to the limit. New regulations, applications, devices and a highly demanding clientele make it hard for healthcare IT departments to prioritize existing projects, achieve long term executive objectives and take time to listen to their user community — there's just too much work to do and not enough time to do it.

Article: Clinic-In-A-Box
Hospitals need to be able to rapidly get new sub-acute facilities on-line with minimal hassle. This is the idea behind Alcatel-Lucent's Clinic-in-a-Box solution

Voice of Smart City Citizens-Wuxi presentation
A presentation exploring the involvement of citzens in the development of their city in becoming a smart city. This PPT focuses on Wuxi in China which has transformed from an ancient city to internet of things.

Voice of Smart City Citizens-Zurich presentation
A presentation exploring the involvement of citzens in the development of their city in becoming a smart city. This PPT focuses on Wuxi in China which has transformed from an ancient city to internet of things.

Voice of Smart City Citizens-Chattanooga presentation
A presentation exploring the involvement of citzens in the development of their city into a smart city. This PPT focuses on Chattanooga in the USA which has transformed from a dirty city into a gig city.

Voice of Smart City Citizens-Saudi presentation
A presentation exploring the involvement of citzens in the development of their city in becoming a smart city. This PPT focuses on Saudi Arabia which once known as a city in the desert has become known for its knowledge economy.

Mission-Critical Communications Networks For Railway Operators
Main line and urban railway operators rely heavily on their communications networks to operate safely and efficiently.

Simplifying Network Administration in an Alcatel-Lucent VMware Virtual Environment
Virtual machine mobility management in an application fluent data center network. This paper presents an overview of the Alcatel-Lucent VMware solution.

Unconstrained datacenter networks for the cloud era
The value of cloud services lies in the rapid and cost-effective instantiation of applications that can be consumed by users anywhere. Enterprises expect cloud services to increase their agility in turning up applications while simplifying their operations.

Expanding the Role of the Mobile Network Operator in M2M
Machine-to-machine (M2M) communications is on the rise. Most mobile network operators (MNOs) are turning to M2M for growth in revenues buoyed by the significant growth projections for number of connected devices.

BUILDING YOUR CARRIER WI-FI STRATEGY : OPPORTUNITIES, CONSIDERATIONS AND SOLUTIONS
Telecom providers such as cable multiple system operators (MSOs) and fixed and converged service providers are turning their attention to Wi-Fi® technologies for both competitive and revenue generating business strategies.

ALCATEL-LUCENT LIGHTRADIO WI-FI: A STRATEGIC LEVER FOR NETWORK EXPANSION AND SERVICE INNOVATION
Alcatel-Lucent lightRadio Wi-Fi equips wireless and converged service providers with an end-to-end carrier Wi-Fi solution.

The Consumable Network
Preparing business networks for the cloud with software defined networking.

Velocix Content Delivery Network
Consumers want access to high-quality multimedia entertainment at their convenience on a broad range of devices, including Tvs, PCs, tablets and smartphones. but factors such as surging consumer demand, proliferating video content, increasing video quality and the shift to on-demand viewing are putting pressure on current broadband network infrastructures and business models.

Meeting Pervasive Ethernet-Based Service Demands with Integrated Packet Transport
The rising demand for Ethernet-based cloud, mobile and video services continues to apply enormous pressure on networks. Soon 80 percent of all new software will be available through the cloud, approximately 58 percent of all web traffic will be video based and, by the end of the decade, there will be 20 billion smart devices1 connected to the network.

Network Functions Virtualization: From Vaporware To New Era
Cloud technologies are rapidly changing the way businesses process and store information. Cloud computing takes advantage of two technology trends: virtualization and powerful industry-standard server hardware with a common instruction set architecture.

The Missing Piece: Voice of the Smart City Citizen Executive Summary
A presentation exploring the involvement of citzens in the development of their city into a smart city. This PPT provides an overview of all four cities studied, revealing the voice missing from all and comparing the different ways that a city can develop to become smart.

Solution Sheet: Seeing is Believing: IP Video Innovation
IP Video lets you deliver an exceptional multiscreen video experience to customers. It's a powerful distribution channel for your content partners — and a game changer for your business. With Alcatel-Lucent IP Video innovations, you can build a massively scalable IP Video platform that leverages the latest cloud and streaming technologies.

Solution Sheet: Alcatel-Lucent Smart Plan
The Alcatel-Lucent Smart Plan solution helps service providers build compelling data-centric plans, offers and business models that help drive new revenue without increasing operational burden.

Brochure: Alcatel-Lucent Smart Plan Solution
Alcatel-Lucent Professional and Consulting Services use a unique use case-driven approach that helps maximize your investment in our Smart Plan solution.

Agile Optical Networking: More Than Moving Light
For decades now, since the inception of data services and the internet, unrelenting traffic growth has driven optical networks to unprecedented scale and ever higher bit rates: 100g today, 200g and 400g in the near future.

Velocix Enhanced Video Experience
Alcatel-Lucent addresses the needs of service providers with the Velocix Enhanced Video Experience (EVE), a foundation for delivering next-generation multiscreen video streaming services over IP-based content delivery networks (CDNs).

Packet Microwave For Metro Cell Backhaul
The transition to higher capacity 3G and 4G/LTE networks and the introduction of small cells are the strategic tools that mobile network operators (MNOs) have at their disposal to keep pace with rapidly increasing mobile service demand.

Experience is Everything
Customer experience is now at the core of mobile business success. But growing churn, complexity and expectations are making it difficult for service providers to deliver an experience that can stand out from the competition, satisfy customers and boost profitability.

A Coordinated Virtual Infrastructure For SDN In Enterprise Networks
Increasing agility and automation in the data center to optimize application delivery requires a complete, end-to-end, coordinated virtual infrastructure.

Mobile Conversations in the Era of the Personal Cloud
The concept of a stationary work environment is rapidly disappearing: today employees want — and need — to be mobile. A consumer-led revolution is driving rapid developments in mobile technology.

Optimal Solutions for Data Center Connect (DCC)
In a Web 2.0 world, enterprise customers expect anywhere, anytime access to storage and computing capabilities from their service provider (SP).

Getting Smart About Smart Cities: Recommendations For Smart City Stakeholders
The goals of this research report are:
  • To understand the main drivers for transforming a city into a "Smart City"
  • To understand the expectations of citizens living in Smart Cities
  • To provide a snapshot of different Smart City projects, their drivers, and business models
  • To understand the key role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in a Smart City project

The Other SAAS: Why Service Providers Should Think Storage
As enterprises move more of their business-critical data to the cloud and consumers begin to entrust personal data to the cloud, the storage opportunity for service providers grows.

The Missing Piece: Voice of Smart City Citizens
The smart city concept recognizes information and communication technologies as drivers of economic competitiveness, environmental sustainability and general livability.

The A.R.T. of Policy Management
Delivering the next generation of mobile broadband services. With the explosion of mobile broadband, service providers must offer innovative, personalized subscriber services while generating new streams of revenue.

Mobilize the Data Plan: The Alcatel-Lucent Smart Plan Solution
Around the world, mobile and fixed-mobile operators are evolving their approach to mobile and broadband tariffs. These service providers want to shift their focus towards offers that can capitalize on the growing demand for mobile data and stabilize declining voice and SMS revenues.

Responding to Mobile Capacity Challenges with Packet Optical Mobile Backhaul
Demand for mobile services continues to increase at a phenomenal rate, both in terms of the number of subscribers and the bandwidth per subscriber.

Dynamic Communications for the Smart Grid - Driving smarter energy management and usage
The power grid is vital to delivering the energy that people have come to expect in their personal and professional lives. Ensuring the safe and reliable delivery of high-quality power is the utility's primary objective. While utilities have for many years met this goal very successfully, factors such as aging power grids, increasing demand and the incorporation of renewable energy are now leading many of them to transform the way they do business.

Velocix Unified Caching - Delivering Any Content from Any Source
This paper presents an evolution that will enable unified caching to become a vital element of every on-net CDN. Embodied by Velocix unified caching, this evolution will allow service providers to support enhanced CDN and transparent caching capabilities using a single, flexible on-net CDN deployment. This unified approach will help service providers streamline their processes and deliver any content from any source with a consistent QoE.

OpenTouch Video Store
Enterprises are looking for an innovative, cost-effective video media vehicle to communicate with, educate and entertain their employees, partners, suppliers and customers. The Alcatel-Lucent OpenTouch™ Video Store enables enterprises to create, upload and share videos across their organizations, improve audience awareness, reduce time-to-information and control the videos employees share.

HLN Capacity and Efficiency Business Value
Smartphones, tablets, mobile devices and a proliferation of compelling applications and content have changed user behavior and put users in command of the telecommunications services they want to buy. Users want high-speed fixed and mobile broadband access from anywhere, at any time, and they expect a superior customer experience.

HLN Customer Business Value
The telecommunications market is undergoing profound change: broadband traffic continues to grow thanks to affordable smart devices, ubiquitous connectivity, more compelling applications, and increasing fixed and mobile penetration. As the driving force behind these market trends, smartphones, mobile devices and personalized applications and content have put users in command of the services they want to use.

Video Shakes Up The IP Edge
As consumers demand ever more video and video consumption methods, the broadband IP networks used by many service providers to offer residential services will be overwhelmed by the sheer volume of data. The problem will be most acute at the IP edge of a triple-play provider's network, where video traffic will grow 2.5 times faster than traffic on subscriber links.

The Application Fluent Network - Delivering a High-Quality User Experience
For the first time in history, the demand for bandwidth will exceed the economical capacity of the next generation of network switching equipment. The time-tested solution of adding more and more raw bandwidth will not work.

Deploying IP/MPLS Communications Networks for Smart Grids
Power utilities worldwide are embarking on Smart Grid projects such as Grid Modernization, Substation Automation, Distribution Automation, and Advanced Metering Infrastructure. Communications network transformation to a highly available IP/MPLS network for mission-critical communications is a foundation to the Smart Grid architecture.

Article: Revolutionizing railway communications with LTE
As Long-term evolution (LTE) is rolled out on commercial mobile networks across the world, LTE is also being adapted to railway communications, allowing operators to improve the efficiency of their critical communications and enhance passenger experience by offering new and innovative services.

Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router: Your Edge In Service Evolution
Driven by the latest innovations in Internet-based services and multimedia-enabled TVs, PDAs and smartphones, consumers are once again fueling change in the network services industry. Whether it's mobile subscribers consuming more applications and video content while on the road, residential customers demanding more personalized, on-demand video services, or enterprises looking to fully leverage the efficiencies of cloud computing, service providers (SPs) are faced with both the challenge — and the opportunity — of evolving their services to meet the changing needs of their customers.

Alcatel-Lucent Service-Aware Management for end to end LTE
As mobile and IP technologies converge, network management has become increasingly complex. This transformation poses significant operational challenges to mobile service providers. Traditional element and network management solutions do not allow service providers to keep pace with the volume and complexity of today’s mobile services. Manual processes are too slow and error prone. Reactive problem detection leads to longer outages and dissatisfied customers. And integration with existing systems and processes is expensive and time-consuming.

Alcatel-Lucent Business IP VPN Solution
Meeting Next Generation IP VPN Demands Rapidly And Efficiently Changing business requirements are putting increased pressure on service providers to deliver more services, faster.

Alcatel-Lucent Aging Communications Systems: Risks And Opportunities
After several years of little to no investment in IT infrastructure, enterprise communications equipment is aging: performance is degrading and operationssupport costs are increasing. Aging communications systems cannot support the video, mobility and unified communications and collaboration capabilities that enterprises may require.

Alcatel-Lucent Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Optimizing Cloud Infrastructure with Citrix CloudBridge
The smart device era is driving adoption of mobility services at a rapid pace. Enterprises cannot continue to facilitate employee mobility and maximize productivity by simply growing the standalone data center.

Alcatel-Lucent Transformation Opportunities With The Alcatel-Lucent OpenTouch™ Suite
New visual collaboration experiences, along with smart, application-enabled devices and cloud-ready network architectures are creating important opportunities for enterprise IT departments to transform networks and communications.

Alcatel-Lucent Raising The Bar For Teamwork Productivity With The Collaborative Conversation Experience
The workplace is being redefined, with virtual workspaces distributed among physical locations. Employees increasingly require a mix of personal and professional applications, and "bring your own device" (BYOD) is becoming the norm for business communications.

Alcatel-Lucent The 2012 Cloud Networking Report
Part 1: The Emergence of Cloud Computing and Cloud Networking. The 2012 Cloud Networking Report (The Report) will be published both in its entirety and in a serial fashion. This is the first of the serial publications.

Alcatel-Lucent 9900 Wireless Network Guardian: Powerful mobile network analytics solution
Today's wireless networks now offer subscribers a true mobile broadband experience. As expected, increased penetration has caused increased traffic loads in the wireless operator's radio network.

Alcatel-Lucent Instant Convergent Charging Suite: Convergent Rating & Charging Solutions
Instant Convergent Charging Suite (ICC) enables flexible and configurable centralized real-time rating, charging and mediation for multiple networks and services. ICC allows operators to simultaneously offer prepaid, postpaid and hybrid rating and charging for voice, data, video and content and commerce services.

Turning Small Cells into Big Profits
Using economic simulation to make the right decisions for your market. With small cells that leverage both cellular and Wi-Fi® technologies, mobile network operators (MNOs) can deliver focused capacity and coverage, offload data from macro networks, and offer innovative new services.

Building An Outsourcing Relationship
This white paper discusses twelve crucial areas to consider when engaging an effective MSP — factors that can contribute to transformation and innovation, as well as cost savings.

Application Fluency In The Campus Data Center
A modern data center network needs to respond to the new requirements of server and desktop virtualization and deliver a high-quality experience for students, faculty and staff. The network must also support the plethora of smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices that outnumber desk-bound devices.

A New Era Of Mobile Backhaul
Mobile services. It is a huge market, expected to reach $1.3 trillion (in constant U.S. dollars) by 2016.1 It is also a highly competitive market with very demanding customers. To keep customers and grow market share, mobile network operators (MNOs) must deliver an outstanding customer experience. To stay profitable, they must do so at the lowest possible total cost of ownership.

IP/MPLS Mobile Backhaul For Heterogeneous Networks
The mobile radio access network (RAN) is evolving rapidly, driven by the need to improve capacity and coverage while keeping capital and operating expenses under control.

Professional Services For Mobile Backhaul
The mobile radio access network (RAN) is evolving rapidly, driven by the need to improve capacity and coverage while keeping capital and operating expenses under control.

Responding To Mobile Capacity Challenges With Packet Optical Mobile Backhaul
Demand for mobile services continues to increase at a phenomenal rate, both in terms of the number of subscribers and the bandwidth per subscriber. To remain competitive and reduce the potential for churn, mobile operators need to be able to grow their networks' capacity in line with the growth in demand.

Wireline Mobile Backhaul For Metro Cells
A new role is emerging for wireline operators who are prepared to leverage their fixed broadband access network to provide wireline mobile backhaul. Explosive growth both in the number of wireless subscribers and bandwidth consumed poses a tremendous challenge to mobile network operators (MNOs).

Communications: Revolutionising Railway Communications with Wireless Broadband
As Long-term evolution (LTE) is rolled out on commercial mobile networks across the world, it is also being adapted to railway communications, allowing operators to improve the efficiency of their critical communications and enhance passenger experience by offering new and innovative 4G services.

Troubleshooting at the Speed of Light
With our increasing dependence on broadband, service disruptions are not acceptable, and the need for cost-effective fiber monitoring and troubleshooting is escalating.

Alcatel-Lucent and VMWare Combine to Harmonize Data center Networks and Applications
As more and more business applications and data are added to the enterprise network, they increase costs considerably in terms of power, space and resources required to keep the host servers running in the data center.

Alcatel-Lucent OMNIVISTA 2500 Network Management Solution
In today's highly competitive business environment, enterprises must be dynamic and adaptable, and be able to respond in real time to new opportunities as they arise.

Alcatel-Lucent CloudBand: bringing the power of the network to the cloud
The Alcatel-Lucent CloudBand solution provides the foundation for a new class of carrier cloud.

Transforming The Brand Through Improved Customer Experience: Service Provider Strategies
Alcatel-Lucent and Heavy Reading conducted a research project aimed at gaining a better understanding of how communications service providers (CSPs) approach customer experience management (CEM).

HIGH LEVERAGE NETWORK: A Platform for Customer Experience Innovation
The telecommunications market is undergoing profound change: broadband traffic continues to grow thanks to improved devices, better connectivity, more compelling applications, and increasing fixed and mobile penetration.

Converging TV VOD Delivery and Distributed CDNs
Interest in multiscreen strategies — including next-generation TV offerings, such as TV Everywhere and online content services — is growing, as Multiple System Operators (MSOs) focus on increasing their Revenue Generating Units (RGUs).

CDN Interoperability
The rapid growth of over-the-top (OTT) video and multiscreen pay TV services has prompted network service providers to make significant investments in their infrastructure.

PUBLIC SAFETY LTE: A How-to Guide — FirstNet Edition
We live in a changing world, where public safety agencies must address new threats and challenges, both natural and man-made.

Enterprise communications 2.0
Embracing the Bring Your Own Device Trend to Improve Employee Productivity.

Alcatel-Lucent Metro Cells The Bigger Picture
Mobile network operators (MNOs) need cost-effective solutions to deal with the predicted exponential growth in mobile data traffic on their networks, in order to maintain their subscribers' quality of experience (QoE).

Alcatel-Lucent Emergency Notification Service
A complete, integrated solution for emergency call management.

Alcatel-Lucent Social Communications
Compliant with GSMA Rich Communications recommendations (RCS and RCS-e), Alcatel-Lucent Social Communications provides tools for the consumer and enterprise markets to enable people to effortlessly connect, communicate and share within and outside their social graph with privacy and trust.

Plugging Into the Digital Economy - Executive Summary
Exploiting broadband-enabled digital applications and services in Australia.

A Classroom In The Cloud
Building on Service Provider Infrastructure and Business Models to Create a K-20 Education Platform that Reduces Cost, Improves Engagement and Measures Student Success.

Architecting Wireless Field Area Networks
Communications network deployments in electric utilities have traditionally focused on supporting the transmission grid. These wide area network (WAN) deployments provide real-time visibility to support applications, such as teleprotection, to maintain grid reliability.

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Virtual Desktop Solution
Desktop virtualization can increase the productivity of information technology (IT) teams by transforming how they configure and deploy endpoint devices, manage desktops, and support end user applications.

Enabling Real-Time and Mobile Communications in Microsoft Environments with Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise
Application note detailing how to enable real-time and mobile communications in Microsoft environments with Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise.

Smart Digital Connected - 2012 Research Report
Smart.Digital.Connected investigates how Australian organisations participate and benefit in the digital economy, and how they are preparing to engage in the future.

Alcatel-Lucent Mobile Backhaul Solution
Enabling the Profitable Evolution to All-IP.

Enabling collaborative conversation experiences with agile, cost-effective IT
The workplace is being redefined, with new visual collaboration experiences across sites and smart application-enabled devices that boost personal productivity.

Alcatel-Lucent Digital Media Store: Realize your digital media future
Today's crowded and complex digital media market is challenging for service providers striving to achieve market growth and generate new revenue from digital media.

Alcatel-Lucent Digital Media Store (DMS)
E-book sales are quickly taking off, overtaking hard-copy books in some markets. Many non-Englishspeaking markets are being underserved by the large e-books stores like Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

Volunteer Handbook 2012: Alcatel-Lucnet Foundation
Alcatel-Lucent Foundation welcomes you for taking out time to foster self-reliance, empower people with education, and become a partner to witness comprehensive development of the world around you.

Alcatel-lucent Enterprise Security Strategy
All business requirements for security technology should be focused on delivering appropriate and not excessive security.

Alcatel-Lucent 7750 SR for Residential Services IPv6 Migration
Enabling flexibility in addressing IPv4 address exhaustion in residential networks.

Migrating Routed Networks and Services to IPv6
Residential broadband and business VPN services.

Virtual Desktop Performance And Quality Of Experience
Understading the Importance of a Distributed Data Center Architechture.

Mobile Europe Insight Report 2012
Small Cells 2012: Integration and Optimisation.

Empowering Nurses with Wireless Phones
Five Best Practices & Real World Case Studies.

Delivering Comprehensive Enterprise DCC Security
Data Center Connect Security - A comprehensive approach to preventing, detecting and mitigating data security risks.

It Is Time To Get Serious About APIs
Application programming interfaces (APIs) are no longer new to the telecommunications industry, but their true potential as a game-changer remains untapped.

Application Fluency for a High-quality User Experience
Enabling unified access for converged enterprise networks.

Enterprise Data Center Connect
When choosing the best technology and the right products to meet their data center connect (DCC) networking requirements, enterprises must fully understand the challenges to be addressed and the applications that must be supported.

Simplify Delivery of a Next-Generation Communication Experience
Alcatel-Lucent OpenTouch Suite for Mid-Sized and Large Enterprises: Blueprint. Forget the old, simplistic notions of desktop-centric unified communications. Join what Alcatel-Lucent calls the conversation.

Getting Smart about Smart Cities - Enterprise Market Analysis
Recommendations for Smart City Stakeholders.

Creating Your Smart Grid: A How-To Guide
Secure, Manage, Integrate,and Extend Your Smart Grid Network with Communications Technology.

Alcatel-Lucent Video Analytics: An AppGlide Service
The Alcatel-Lucent Video Analytics service gives Internet service providers (ISPs) analytics and reporting capabilities that provide a new level of visibility into online video delivery.

5620 SAM Integrated IP Optical Core Management EN Solutionsheet
The 5620 SAM delivers powerful capabilities that simplify operations of integrated IP/optical core networks, especially critical as the core expands and requirements change.

5620 SAM IP Core Management EN Solutionsheet
The 5620 SAM delivers powerful capabilities that simplify operations of all-IP networks, especially critical as the core expands and requirements change.

7950 XRS Family DataSheet
The Alcatel-Lucent 7950 XRS is the world's most powerful core router platform. Delivering unprecedented density and efficiency without compromising the versatility to support evolving traffic demands, the 7950 XRS handles the full range of service provider routing needs for years to come.

ACG TCO on Core 7950 XRS
Driving Scale and Operational Efficiency in the IP Core: TCO Analysis of the Alcatel-Lucent 7950 XRS Core Router.

Rethinking the IP Core Position
The Internet represents the ultimate platform for creativity and communication, and has become central to every aspect of our lives - at work, at home, and everywhere in between.

Voice over LTE: The new mobile voice
Alcatel-Lucent and the ENPC School of International Management have completed a joint research project created to identify and investigate megatrends that have the potential to fundamentally transform society in general and the information and communications technology industry (ICT), in particular.

Megatrends: A Wave of Change Impacting the Future
Maximizing DSL Performance In The Field With Dynamic Line Management.

Dynamic Communications for Public Safety
For public safety agencies, saving time means saving lives. Charged with protecting citizens daily and responding quickly and effectively to emergencies, public safety personnel cannot allow any operational obstacles to interfere with their mission.

DSL Acceleration: Making It Work
The deployment of wireline broadband networks in all developed markets (as well as some emerging markets) has been a spectacular success for both network operators and regulators.

Evolution of the Broadband Network Gateway
Residential service providers today are at odds with the very subscribers they serve.

Alcatel-Lucent Metro Cells: Placing coverage and capacity where it's needed
As a key component of Alcatel-Lucent lightRadio™ Network or any heterogeneous (HetNet) architecture, Alcatel-Lucent metro cells enable mobile service providers (MS Ps) to deliver costeffective capacity to urban hotspots, as well as affordable coverage to rural locations.

Shaping the Future of Multiscreen Video
The TV and video business is rapidly transforming from walled garden-based services to online video, linking consumers with more compelling content on a broader range of connected devices.

Build Your Own Destiny
"Bring Your Own Device" as a symptom of something deeper.

The Connected Hospital
Changing the conversations between care providers, patients and their families.

Soaring into the Cloud
The worldwide market for cloud services is still developing and must be navigated properly if service providers are going to capitalize on this opportunity to transform their business and ensure they don't become a commoditized network provider.

Alcatel-Lucent 2011Global Cloud ITDM Study
Penn, Schoen and Berland Associates, LLC, conducted online interviews among 3,886 information technology decision makers (ITDMs) in the United States, United Kingdom, France, India, South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.

Why All Clouds Are Not Created Equal
Cloud computing technology brings an unprecedented level of independence and liberation in deploying applications.

Getting Smart About Smart Cities - Market Analysis
Understanding the Market Opportunity in the Cities of Tomorrow.

Getting Smart About Smart Cities - Executive Summary
Understanding the Market Opportunity in the Cities of Tomorrow.

400mhz Broadband Spectrum for Public Safety
In the challenging economic climate, gov-ernments are keen to look at mobile data services to improve their operations.

Exploring Traffic Geo-Location As A Key Strategy To Off-Load Macro Networks With Small Cells Solutions
For mobile service providers (MSPs) all over the world, network congestion is a critical issue that will only become more important and more challenging as mobile traffic continues to grow unabated.

The 400G Photonic Service Engine: Leaping Toward A Future Of Faster Speeds
Service providers around the world are moving quickly to accelerate their networks - making the jump from transport speeds of 10G and 40G to barrierbreaking 100 gigabits per second.

It Is Time To Get Serious About Apis
Application programming interfaces (APIs) are no longer new to the telecommunications industry, but their true potential as a game-changer remains untapped.

Intelligent Network Services Migration: More Value For The Voice Over LTE Subscriber
Mobile operators have invested a lot of time and money in Intelligent Network (IN) services for 2G and 3G circuit-switched voice networks.

Service Continuity For Today's Voice Over LTE Subscribers: Ensuring Voice Service With Single Radio Voice Call Continuity (SR-VCC)
Subscribers' expectations for mobile data services are continuing to increase.

Service Continuity For Today's Voice Over LTE Subscribers: Ensuring Voice Service With Single Radio Voice Call Continuity (SR-VCC)
4G LTE enables mobile operators to deliver a new conversation experience of enriched voice, enlivened video and intuitive messaging.

Wi-Fi Roaming - Building On ANDSFAnd Hotspot2.0
This research collaboration paper between Alcatel-Lucent and BT describes the need for Heterogeneous Network Policies in a multi-operator environment.

Building The Benefits Of Broadband: How New Zealand Can Increase The Social & Economic Impacts Of High-Speed Broadband
New Zealand is on the edge of a new communications era. The Ultra-Fast Broadband (UFB) project and Rural Broadband Initiative (RBI) are set to radically improve the speed and capacity of the high-speed broadband networks available to nearly 98 percent of New Zealanders.

The Carrier Cloud: Driving Internal Transformation And New Cloud Revenue
Cloud computing brings service providers new opportunities to improve their own operations while generating revenue from cloud services.

Cloud Clout With Open Apis: What You Should Ask Of Your Cloud Provider
As cloud services become increasingly popular, more questions arise about the capabilities of cloud solutions.

Enliven Conversations With Video Consumer Video Communications - A Focus On The Subscriber
Today we talk with or message nearly anyone at any time. Smartphones have freed us from fixed locations and bulky computers.

Customer Experience Transformation Via Analytics: Analytics Enables Actionable Real-Time Customer Insight
Communications service providers (CSPs) are facing fierce competition as they strive to win consumer and enterprise business with their fixed and mobile services.

Alcatel-Lucent Integrated DDoS Protection Solution
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on enterprise and service provider networks are increasing in both scale and sophistication.

Deploying IP/MPLS In Mobile Networks
As mobile service providers prepare for the evolution to wireless broadband, they require a robust packet transport infrastructure that supports CDMA/EV-DO and GSM/UMTS/HSPA today and is well suited to support LTE and fixed-mobile convergence (FMC).

Maximizing DSL Performance In The Field With Dynamic Line Management
Dynamic Line Management (DLM) is operational in many Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) networks worldwide covering various use cases such as network stabilization, open-pipe architecture, service upgrade, and profile grooming.

IPv6 Transition In Fixed And Mobile Environments: Planning A Strategy And Navigating The Issues
"IPv6 migration has become an important topic for most network operators as the projected increase of Internet Protocol (IP) - enabled applications, services and consumer devices - is expected to exhaust the available public IPv4 address space in the coming years.

Building A Social Conversation Experience With RCS And RCS-e: Meet The Demand For Social Communications
The demand for social communications is stronger than ever, the networks are in place, devices are smarter and more capable, and there's an ever-expanding set of applications that provide communications capabilities.

The New Conversation Experience: It's Time To Reinvent Communications
Communication services have come a long way from just voice. Today, multimedia and social media conversations play huge roles in our connected world — at home, at work and on the go.

Alcatel-Lucent Lightradio Wi-Fi Solution: Turning Wi-Fi Hotspots Into A Hot Business Opportunity For Wireless Service Providers
With maturity in both technology evolution and standards development, Wi-Fi has effectively become "another wireless technology" which allows extended network coverage and capacity — for both wireless and wireline network operators and service providers — through the use of operator-managed-and-controlled Wi-Fi access points.

LTE Mobile Transport Evolution
As cell sites are rolled out in support of Long Term Evolution (LTE) services, and the increase in mobile data services continues unabated, it is expected that average bandwidth requirements will increase beyond 100 Mb/s per macrocell site.service delivery.

HSS Resiliency: Surviving Attach Storms In The Networks Of Today And Tomorrow
Mobile service providers are taking advantage of the lower operational costs associated with Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks by deploying network equipment with the largest possible capacity, even if they don't need all that capacity immediately.

Monetizing Mobile Applications: How To Maximize Investment, Move Up The Value Chain And Expand Into New Markets
Network providers are well aware of the challenges presented by today's mobile growth.

NFC White Paper: Alcatel-Lucent Mobile Wallet Service
The following document describes the Alcatel-Lucent Near Field Communication (NFC) solution, part of the Alcatel-Lucent Mobile Wallet Service (MWS) offering.

Service Consistency For Today's VoLTE Subscribers: Providing Global Access With 4G LTE And IMS Centralized Services
End-user expectations for mobile services have evolved rapidly during the last two decades, and many subscribers now expect voice service to be globally available.

Optimal Solutions For Data Center Connect (DCC)
In a Web 2.0 world, enterprise customers expect anywhere, anytime access to storage and computing capabilities from their service provider (SP).

Optimized 100G Transport: Selecting A 100G Solution Optimized For Scalability, Performance And Cost
Driven by video and application use, Internet traffic across fixed and mobile networks is expected to grow by a factor of five between now and 2013.

Secure Solutions For Data Center Connect
Responding to increasing security threats and regulation, enterprises face a range of challenges in providing a comprehensive IT security program.

Small Cells Create New Opportunities In The Enterprise: Key Research Findings
Alcatel-Lucent research findings from seven countries show that the potential of small cell technology, also known as femtocells, has sparked widespread interest among enterprises in Brazil, Singapore, Australia, the United Kingdom (UK), Italy, Spain and Russia.

GSM Voice Capacity Evolution With VAMOS
Ever-increasing GSM mobile traffic, coupled with flat or decreasing ARPU, obliges mobile operators to grow their network infrastructure.

Trump Ocean Club Case Study
As the largest and tallest building in Latin America, everything about the Trump Ocean Club International Hotel exudes quality and sophistication; rising 70 stories above Panama Bay, the luxury hotel attracts discerning guests from all over the world.

ZIGGO HOTSPOT PROJECT: "THE NEXT STEP TO AN EVEN BIGGER LIVING ROOM"
By partnering with Alcatel-Lucent, Ziggo has built the largest and densest Wi-Fi hotspot network in the Netherlands, providing mobile wireless broadband access for Ziggo’s customers.

Alcatel-Lucent's Industry Leading Technology Boosts China Eastern's Global Call Center and Voice Platform
Headquartered in Shanghai, China Eastern Airlines Corporation Limited is one of the three main Chinese air transport groups and is an official member of SkyTeam. The airline employs 60,000 people and has a fleet of 400 aircraft which fly to over 150 destinations, serving 70 million travelers a year. It is ranked ninth in the world in terms of total passenger volume.

Innovation Agenda: Calgary
Calgary keeps progressing with its new MPLS network.

Alcatel-Lucent Data Center Services
Data centers are under extreme pressure. Real-time applications, virtualization, server-to-server traffic, desktop presence information, security, and video have all combined to push the limits.

Converged Network Plan And Design
The Alcatel-Lucent Application Fluent Network is based on a resilient architecture with automated controls in which the network dynamically adapts to the application, user and device to provide a high-quality user experience, as well as simplified operation. This helps enterprise use their networks to better achieve business results.

ALCATEL-LUCENT VITALSUITE™: Application & Network Performance Management Software Release 12.0
Alcatel-Lucent VitalSuite™ Network Performance Management software (VitalSuite Net) provides the critical network information you need to monitor network performance, preempt problems, optimize resources, and plan ahead for maximum return on network investments

ALCATEL-LUCENT VITALSUITE™: Application & Network Performance Management Software
MONITOR, MEASURE AND ENHANCE DELIVERY OF MISSION CRITICAL BUSINESS SERVICES ACROSS A MULTIVENDOR, MULTI-SERVICE INFRASTRUCTURE.

Clark Memorial Hospital's World-Class Healthcare Service Is Enabled By Alcatel-Lucent's Network Infrastructure
The 241 bed Clark Memorial Hospital has offered exceptional health-related programs and services to the people of southern Indiana since 1922.

Decatur County Schools create foundation for learning using Alcatel-Lucent infrastructure
Broad selection of Alcatel-Lucent solutions deployed to provide robust infrastructure for new school premises and retrofit of existing buildings.

Dynamic Communications for Oil & Gas
Reach hydrocarbons faster, farther and safer.

Dalton Utilities Empowers its Community with Broadband Services
A North American municipal utility launches telecom service, achieving 60% penetration while bolstering regional economics and its own financial future.

Alcorn State University sees dramatic improvements in infrastructure reliability and functionaility
Alcorn State University was the U.S.'s first state-supported establishment for the higher education of African Americans. Since its founding in 1871, the University has grown to occupy three separate campuses, all located on the western border of Mississippi.

MARIESTAD TÖREBODA ENERGY
Mariestad Töreboda Energy AB (MTEAB) is a utilities supplier serving central Sweden. It provides electricity, district heating, Internet and telephony services to residents and businesses.

BRAZILIAN CORPORATE POWERHOUSE - JMalucelli
"The whole experience with Alcatel-Lucent solutions has been extremely positive. We're deploying the equipment into all of our locations, and any new branches or offices immediately get given the latest configuration. We've been so impressed with the quality of products that we are actively seeking opportunities to deploy a broader range of Alcatel-Lucent equipment into critical points in our infrastructure, such as the JMalucelli Data Center."

MARTINHAL BEACH RESORT & HOTEL
Martinhal Beach Resort & Hotel needed a convergent, flexible and reliable IP communications infrastructure to ensure first-class guest services and operational efficiency.

GREENER: Green, Energy-Efficient Network Re-organization
Green Energy Efficient Network Reorganization Economic and environmental drivers have made energy efficiency a critical concern for telecommunications operators worldwide. Both wireline and wireless operators are seeking hardware and software solutions to reduce mounting energy bills.

MANGO: Mobile audio-video to go
Mango is a novel service that enables rich content delivery over hot-spots to a mobile phone. The mango service has two components 1) a large scale network of caches each with a fixed-line (or 3G) backhaul, and a radio front end (currently Bluetooth, which can evolve to Femtocells) for communicating with mobiles 2) an easy to use applications for phones that allows user to browse/share/search/download content.

MONEY BEE: Operator-enabled mobile crowdsourcing service
MoneyBee is a comprehensive operator-enabled mobile crowdsourcing service for emerging markets. Mobile phones present the best platform to support a crowdsourcing application for emerging markets, and telecom operators are in the best position to offer and support such a service. MoneyBee is accessible to mobile phone users in emerging markets through their mobile operators.

TELEPORT: Traffic congestion solution using Bluetooth
Teleport is a traffic congestion solution that accurately estimates travel time using Bluetooth based cell phone penetration and a low-cost Bluetooth sensor network. The key idea is based on the observation that most phones carried by commuters even in emerging markets have short-range radio interfaces present on the phone.

VILLAGENET: Providing broadband access to villages
Villagenet is a low-cost, high performance mesh architecture that provides broadband access to villages. This proposes a low risk (low-cost) entry point for operators, in rural regions. It targets the rural markets where there are large populations with low paying capacities.

WHITENET: Operating networks over the unused TV spectrum
Migration from Analog to digital Television transmissions in many countries and the new FCC ruling of opening up Television whitespaces for unlicensed access heralds an era of innovation in wireless technology.

AREG: Optimizing Recycling With Alcatel-Lucent Omnipcx Office Solution
The waste-disposal company AREG in Neuburg am Inn, Germany uses modern communications technology to overcome hurdles in communication, which not only speeds up order and delivery processes but also means that they don’t miss any prospective orders thanks to an easy-to-use call management system.

The University Of Alberta Relies On Alcatel-Lucent's VitalqIP™ DDI Solution
With a main campus covering 50 blocks in the city of Edmonton, the University of Alberta is recognized as one of the top universities in Canada.

Utrecht University: The Utrecht University secures international future with Alcatel-Lucent wireless network
Utrecht University is one of the leading educational establishments in the world. Like all top universities, it faces pressure from students and researchers to provide a high value IT infrastructure, and therefore having an up-to-date data network is absolutely essential.

Hamilton Southeastern School District Case Study
The Hamilton Southeastern School District, located in Fishers, Indiana, who's mission is for every student to reach their maximum potential, preparing students for a successful post-secondary education and to excel within a quickly evolving modern workforce.

Any Place, Any Time, Any Device: 100G Network Delivers Major Bandwidth Increase For Leading Dutch Triple Play Provider
For residents of The Netherlands, communicating with friends and family at unprecedented speeds is a reality.

Altalink's Smart Grid Transformation Creates Flexibility And Value: Canada's Largest Independent Electrical Transmission Provider Is Reaping The Benefits From Its Major IP/MPLS Rollout
Calgary-based AltaLink is Canada's only fully-independent transmission company, responsible for the operation and maintenance of approximately 12,000 km of high-voltage transmission lines that serve 85 percent of Alberta's population.

OMV, Austria: Optimizing Oil Production At The Wellhead
OMV, Central Europe's largest oil and gas company, wanted to optimize production at the wellhead and signifi cantly reduce operational costs. So it called on Alcatel-Lucent to implement a turnkey integrated communications solution.

OG&E'S Smart Grid Revolutionizes Network Control
An Alcatel-Lucent Multi-Tiered IP/MPLS Communications Network Enables OG&E And Its Customers Across Oklahoma And Arkansas To Modulate Power Demand While Increasing Efficiency And Savings.

Orion Launches Canada's First Operational 100G Network
Alcatel-Lucent Transport Solution Connects Over 1.8 Million Orion Members With The World's First Research & Education 100G Production Network.

SBB: Better Security At Railcity Stations Thanksto IP-Based Video Surveillance
SBB relies on Alcatel-Lucent as general contractor and service partner.

P&Tluxembourg Transforms A Legacy DSL Copper Infrastructure Into A High Performance, Ultra High-Speed Network
Alcatel-Lucent Provides A Cost Effective, Integrated Line Testing Solution To Ensure Quality And Stability Requirements For High Speed Services.

Business Collaborative Conversation Scenarios
Forget old, simplistic notions of how telephony and unified communications (UC) technologies should be used. Join what Alcatel-Lucent calls "the conversation."

How Swisscom Achieved Broadband Access Operational Excellence Utilizing Alcatel-Lucent Network Analyzer
Swisscom launched its first DSL offering in early 2001. In just four short years the service had grown to reach one million customers and by the end of 2008, they had nearly 2 million registered customers.

Telefónica De Argentina: Simplifies Activation And Management Of Complex Broadband Services
Telefónica is the first and largest integrated telecommunications provider for the Spanish-Portuguese speaking world and provides local, domestic long-distance, and international fixed-line telephone services, Internet, mobile and Pay TV services to over 300 million customers in Latin America.

Festival Des Vieilles Charrues Transforms Its Communications To Allow Music And Technology To Take Center Stage
Alcatel-Lucent Solutions Breathe New Life Into French Music Festival, Delivering A Modern Infrastructure For Commercial Partners And 200,000 Visitors.

The Leading Telecommunications Operator In Bulgaria Vivacom Selects Alcatel-Lucent To Help Drive Its Strategic Transformation Within A 5-Years Outsourcing Contract
VIVACOM and Alcatel-Lucent enter a strategic partnership for outsourcing of the FIXED AND MOBILE end-to-end network operations.

Analyst Perspective on Nuage Networks: ACG Research
Ray Mota from Analyst firm ACG Research talks about Nuage Networks and the promise of Software Defined Networking. Nuage Networks is an Alcatel-Lucent venture.

Alcatel-Lucent Proactive Care Services
Alcatel-Lucent Proactive Care Services provide early insight into network problems through proactive maintenance and proactive network care. Recommendations enable service providers to address issues before they escalate to affect services, revenue and the customer experience.

Podcast:Tips for Enhancing Virtual Desktop QoE
Cloud services, such as virtual desktop, are marketing their operating efficiency and cost savings. But end users must feel satisfied with performance, or they will turn to other office tools.

Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks: the Turnkey Supplier
We design, build and maintain reliable, high-speed submarine networks that provide the essential infrastructure for global communications. this video introduces the key pillars of our business.

Extending IP/MPLS benefits into distribution Extending IP/MPLS benefits into distribution
IP/MPLS has been extensively deployed in Utility transmission networks to provide secure and reliable communications for new smart grid and legacy applications.

Alcatel-Lucent: Our innovation at the heart of communications
Alcatel-Lucent's innovations are helping to realize the potential of a connected world. It starts with the birth of modern communications through archived footage of the invention of the phone, right into the future where communications are empowering people, bringing them together, like never before.

Smart Plan Solution Demonstration
The Alcatel-Lucent Smart Plan solution helps service providers "mobilize the data plan." Yesterday's traditional voice users are today's and tomorrow's heavy mobile data users.

Smart Plan Solution Demonstration
The Alcatel-Lucent Smart Plan solution helps service providers "mobilize the data plan." Yesterday's traditional voice users are today's and tomorrow's heavy mobile data users.

Mobile Learning
Today more than 69 million children do not have access to basic education.

Podcast: Mobilizing the Customer Experience
Motive ServiceView for Mobile helps you align your customer experience management strategy with the mobile-centric lives of your customers.

Podcast: TMCnet's SmartGrid Product of the Year goes to Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent 7705 Service Aggregation Router (SAR-H) was chosen as one of the most innovative smart grid technologies of the year.

Alcatel-Lucent The Magic of VDSL2 Vectoring
VDSL2 Vectoring is hot. Analyst firm - Broadbandtrends estimates that by 2017 — 27% of all VDSL2 lines will be Vectored.

Alcatel-Lucent Living in a Smart City - Wuxi China
In a city where the population is growing rapidly, discover how ICT helps the Chinese city of Wuxi to deliver new services to all citizens, from infants to the elderly, while respecting longstanding cultural traditions.

Alcatel-Lucent Mobilize the Data Plan
Mobile broadband usage is exploding. Operators can leverage the growing opportunity around real-time mobile data, earn customer loyalty and stabilize declining voice and SMS revenues.

Alcatel-Lucent The Calgary Story: Journey to a Smart City
Calgary, Canada's most wired city, recently experienced an economic and population boom that resulted in an explosion in demand for services coupled with a parallel rise in technology usage.

Alcatel-Lucent OG&E Smart Grid revolutionizes network control
IP/MPLS communications network enables OG&E and its customers to module power demand while increasing efficiency and savings.

Alcatel-Lucent WebRTC dynamic video composition on a web page
In this video, Nicolas shows you how WebRTC enables dynamic and client based video composition in a video conference composed of several streams. All is done in real-time. It uses the latest version of the standard.

Alcatel-Lucent's new conversation experience - Demo at TIA 2012
This demo shows how the Alcatel-Lucent IMS New Conversation APIs provide a breakthrough set of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that will transform our customers' IMS network into a platform for rapid application innovation.

Alcatel-Lucent Youconnect...it's "magic"!
Youconnect is a new service launched by Alcatel-Lucent with the 3 main mobile operators in France. Discover how, thanks to this mobile application, you can register to vente-privee.com in 3 clicks!

Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs demo - 4G DIY telepresence robot - Open Days 2012
Using an LTE connection, a robot is controlled remotely to go to a meeting room. You can attend meetings remotely, while being able to visualize and discuss with people as if they were in the same meeting room. This robot is also an open platform to test new technologies in real context.

Alcatel-Lucent iCocoon: Immersive Video Conferencing System
Collaboration between remote teams is more important than ever before. This movie will show the research results of the iCocoon project. It investigated how future video conferencing systems can become more immersive and engaging, by utilizing 3D and computer-vision technologies.

Alcatel-Lucent Ben Verwaayen: Green growth and innovation
Alcatel-Lucent's CEO Ben Verwaayen talks green growth and the opportunity for ICTs to inspire innovation.

Alcatel-Lucent CloudBand: Carrier Cloud Delivers A Better Class of Cloud
What if there was a better class of cloud? A carrier class of cloud! Watch the video about carrier cloud and Alcatel-Lucent CloudBand Solution. CloudBand is the foundation for a new class of 'carrier cloud' services.

Alcatel-Lucent BYOD is Transforming Data Centers
Is your enterprise ready for BYOD? Dave Fortini delivers insight and discusses the challenges of today's most influential driver of IT transformation.

Integrated Control and Management System (ICMS) for railways at Innotrans 2012
By improving situational awareness — the end-to-end monitoring and management of the communications network — railway operators can be more pro-active in anticipating and solving problems.

Multiscreen: Optimizing the Companion Experience
In this video Derrick Frost, Vice-President of Global IP Video, explains why pay TV operators are uniquely positioned to bring together the complete video experience that end users really want.

GeomARk: Hyperlocal Mobile Marketing solution by MNC at Innotrans
MNC, The Mobile Services factory, presents GeomARk, its Hyperlocal Mobile Marketing solution at Innotrans.

Alcatel-Lucent at InnoTrans 2012 - Demo Tour
InnoTrans is the biggest event of the railways industry world wide. This bi-annual event took place in Berlin in September 18-21.

Teleprotection over IP/MPLS networks for power utilities
Alcatel-Lucent has a proven solution to support teleprotection over an IP/MPLS network. Teleprotection is one of the most mission-critical applications for power utilities.

A New Era of Mobile Backhaul
Service providers have Get the backhaul you need to go big with small cells. Alcatel-Lucent's mobile backhaul portfolio addresses provides the flexibility, scalability and operational simplicity to deliver the best customer experience at the lowest possible total cost of ownership (TCO).

Embedded OTDR: Troubleshooting at the speed of light
Service providers have invested heavily in fiber infrastructure to meet increased demand for residential and business services. Fiber cables are built to resist a variety of outdoor factors, but faults can happen - affecting service delivery for large numbers of users. Alcatel-Lucent's embedded OTDR innovation provides fiber monitoring and troubleshooting to prevent this from happening.

InsideOut: Alcatel-Lucent's newscast - episode3
Welcome to InsideOut, a news wrap up program that brings the exciting happenings from the four corners of the globe to you, in a different way. We dig into Alcatel-Lucent's hottest events, announcements and news.

High Leverage Network - Realize Your Network Potential
Service providers know they're sitting on immense network potential. But how can they be confident they're making the right investment decisions to release that potential?

Living In Smart Cities - Saudi Arabia
Saudi citizens are excited about the opportunity to have a voice in smart city development, satisfying basic need for Internet connectivity and a safe, modern way of life as well as supporting their entrepreneurial goals.

Alcatel-Lucent Wins TD-LTE Contract to China Mobile
China Mobile, the world largest wireless operator with over 650 mobile subscribers, announced plans to deploy a large scale TD-LTE network. Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell is pleased to be a part of China Mobile's plans.

Introducing the Alcatel-Lucent New Conversation APIs
Alcatel-Lucent introduces a powerful set of APIs that will transform Service Provider IMS networks into an open platform for rapid innovation and service creation.

VDSL2 Zero-Touch Vectoring
VDSL2 Vectoring is a noise-cancelling technology. It removes the noise, or interference, among the VDSL2 lines in a bundle - so that each VDSL2 line can operate at its best and deliver 100Mbps at distances of up to 400m using service providers' existing copper infrastructure.

One flew over the cornfield
"Innovative applications for civil drones Parrot, the French company famed for its automotive and multimedia products, launched into action with its AR.Drone in 2010. The concept was simple: a drone quadricopter equipped with two cameras and controlled using Wi-Fi from your smartphone.

Creating Pennsylvania's Public Safety Network with Alcatel-Lucent
Pennsylvania's Statewide Radio Network Division has partnered with Alcatel-Lucent to create a public safety backbone network based on IP/MPLS and microwave technologies.

Wireless Nomads: An interview with Patricia
With Patricia's story, discover how wireless nomads quickly adopt new technologies and integrate their smartphones into their daily lifestyle to increase their ability to go from one place to another while interacting with their social network.

Wireless Nomads: An interview with Gene
In Chicago, Illinois, we met a man named "Gene". He is a sound engineer and an emigrant from Russia. His wife and three children live in a small flat on the north side of the city.

Wireless Nomads: An interview with Pablo based in Madrid
In Chicago, Illinois, we met a man named "Gene". He is a sound engineer and an emigrant from Russia. His wife and three children live in a small flat on the north side of the city.

Wireless Nomads: An interview with Thierry
Early in our exploration we met a man named Thierry. Thierry can best be described as an early adopter "gadget guy" and a serial entrepreneur. Thierry owns a variety of mobile devices.

Living in a Smart City -- Zürich, Switzerland
Long regarded as a prosperous and modern city, Zürich (Switzerland), impacted by global challenges, is now innovating with a 2000 Watt Society vision along with an open access network and smart grid services.

Introducing Bi-PON from the GreenTouch Consortium
GreenTouch introduces a new technology that will dramatically reduce energy consumption in fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) networks, as well as other applications.

lightRadio Metro Cell Express - Andy's story
Engaging with Multiple Stakeholders.

lightRadio Metro Cell Express - Frank's story
Looking at the Bigger Picture.

lightRadio Metro Cell Express - Sarah-Jane's story
How we can Beat the Mobile Data Storm

API Consulting and Professional Services Launch
Laura Merling, Senior Vice President, Application Enablement, discusses the launch of Alcatel-Lucent's API Consulting and Professional Services practice.

LTE trial with Military Police in the streets of Sao Paolo
Sao Paolo Military Police and Alcatel-Lucent are pioneering with a LTE trial in the real situation of Sao Paolo streets.

Breakthrough silicon innovation: Alcatel-Lucent paves the way for scaling 100G
The FP3 is the world's first 400G network processor.

Evercor, Integrated LTE 400 PMR solution at TETRA World Congress 2012
Cassidian, an EADS company, and Alcatel-Lucent launched at the TETRA World Congress 2012.

Alcatel-Lucent at TETRA World Congress 2012 - demo tour
Alcatel-Lucent was a sponsor of TETRA World Congress 2012 in Dubai.

Smart Community in Germany Successfully Deployed GPON Products and Solutions
Two utility companies near Stuttgart, Germany, offer triple-play services with bandwidth of up to 100Mbps to the 7,500 inhabitants of the new 80-ha "Flugfeld Boeblingen/Stuttgart" urban development area.

Next generation networking solution for Grand River Dam Authority
Grand River Dam - Alcatel-Lucent designed a new MPLS-based network that provided the Grand River Dam Authority (RDA)-electricity productor for the U.S. state of Oklahoma.

Dynamic Communications for Highways
This video showcases how the communication solutions will improve people's life and Highways' business and operations, nowadays as well as in 3 to 5 year time.

ITV Chattanooga Mayor
Listen to Ron Littlefield, Mayor of Chattanooga (Tenn., US) talking about the growing demand in his city for broadband communications services and electricity.

Take Our Daughters and Sons To Work Day - Alcatel-Lucent, Murray Hill, NJ
Where else but Bell Labs can a day at the office with mom or dad be an introduction to a career in science and technology? The children enjoyed hands-on demos with web design, robotics, cyrogenics and much more.

GII 2012 Presse Conference in Geneva - Soumitra Dutta
This year's Global Innovation index includes several changes in methodology, according to INSEAD Professor Soumitra Dutta, who created the index five years ago and is one of the authors of the current report.

GII 2012: Ben Verwaayen, CEO Alcatel-Lucent
Innovation is a fuel for the economy: of cities, of countries, of regions...it's not just the "Eureka" moments or technology; it's also new ways to package, to find and create value.

Bell Labs Demo - Optical technologies - Mode multiplexing for higher capacity
Mode multiplexing is a way to transmit many data channels over different spatial shapes called "modes" that should dramatically increase the capacity of a single fiber in order to keep sustaining the endless growth of internet traffic demand.

Bell Labs Demo - Interactions with smart objects - Open Days 2012
Objects are becoming smart, but how will they look like? The Internet of Things (IoT) vision promises to enhance the capabilities of everyday objects by augmenting them with information or services, but rarely highlight the change brought by such technologies from the end-user perspective.

Alcatel-Lucent dynamic communications for Urban and Main Line Rail
Dynamic communications is demonstrated as the next generation foundation enabling railways operators to offer on-time, safe and connected journeys.

4 Principles to Building a Versatile Core Router
How are core routers meeting the challenges of the 100G era and beyond?

Alcatel-Lucent & Cassidian LTE co-creation program for PMR users
Philippe Keryer, Executive Vice President of Alcatel-Lucent Networks Group and Jean-Marc Nasr, Senior Vice President of Head of Cassidian Secure Communications Solutions present a key achievement of the partnership.

Alcatel-Lucent's Corporate Responsibility: A Business Imperative
What if a Corporation thought of itself as a Global Citizen First? Alcatel-Lucent considers Corporate Responsibility a business imperative.

Energizing the Edge
Energizing the Edge with the performance, services, and intelligence you need.

Discover the 7950 XRS portfolio
You can have it all. Scale, efficiency and versatility on a single platform - without compromise.

ACG HotSeat with Basil Alwan from Alcatel-Lucent on Core Router
ACG HotSeat with Basil Alwan President IP Division, Head of Networks Strategy from Alcatel-Lucent on Core Router announcement.

Redefine the wireless experience with LTE
Long Term Evolution (LTE)/4G will deliver a new wireless broadband experience for consumers and enterprise users, enabling limitless revenue generation possibilities for service providers and application and content developers.

Basil Alwan introduces Alcatel-Lucent's FP3 network processor
Basil Alwan, president of Alcatel-Lucent's IP Division, introduces the FP3 network processor.

Because expectations are high
Eric Olson (Senior Vice President, Business for Social Responsibility) talks about what he expects of companies such as Alcatel-Lucent on their Corporate Responsibility practices in key areas such as energy efficiency, how they produce products and people in both the company and across communities.

Bell Labs Open Days 2012
A video tour of the 2012 Open Days at the Bell Labs center of Villarceaux, in France.

Energy + Insight = changing the world
One of the really important contributions Alcatel-Lucent has made in areas such as eco-sustainability has been its leadership.

It's how we work
Corporate responsibility: is that part of a program, or is it part of your DNA? For us it is absolutely part of our DNA. We want it in evry aspect of our way of working. It is a part of the success formula of our organization.

Living in a Smart City: Chattanooga, TN
The only one Gigabit broadband service in the United States for residential and business customers is now available citywide in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

mLearning: a powerful tool for growth in developing countries
The mobile device has revolutionized how we communicate.

Message to Kripi
Ben Verwaayen (CEO Alcatel-Lucent) answers 14 year old Indian student Kripi Badonia after she asked him the question "what have you done for the planet?"

MWC2012 - Alcatel-Lucent at MWC 2012 - Day 1: lightRadio
Video of Day 1 at Mobile World Congress 2012.

MWC2012 - Alcatel-Lucent at MWC 2012 - Day 2: Bell Labs
Video of Day 2 at Mobile World Congress 2012.

MWC2012 - Alcatel-Lucent at MWC 2012 - Day 3: Cloud solutions
Video of Day 3 at Mobile World Congress 2012.

MWC2012 - Alcatel-Lucent at MWC 2012 - Day 4: Rise above the data storm
Video of Day 4 at Mobile World Congress 2012.

MWC 2012 demo: the New Conversation Experience
This is Alcatel-Lucent's "New Conversation Experience" as demoed at Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona.

Networking at the Speed of Science
The Energy Sciences Network is the high speed network that supports the mission of the United States Department of Energy's Office of Science.

Neo-urbanization - the new paradigm shift
Neo-urbanization - a new mega-trend rising in India and other parts of the world - is the extension of traditionally urban benefits and opportunities to semi-rural and rural communities.

Rethink the IP Core
Core routers need to scale in density, bandwidth and performance to keep up with the surge in video traffic.

Energy Efficient Networks: Service Providers' Green Choices
In a world faced with growing environmental challenges and resource constraints, energy efficiency is one of the most critical issues facing service providers, particularly those deploying networks to areas not served by reliable electrical power.

Alcatel-Lucent Global Cloud Initiative
CloudBand is a key element of Alcatel-Lucent's cloud initiative, which supports the adoption and transformation of Alcatel-Lucent's own platforms and applications to a cloud-based architecture.

The power of diversity
Innovation comes from having diverse teams. It comes from somebody in a meeting saying, "What if?" or "Have you thought about dong it this way?" or asking "Why are we doing it this way?

The trajectory of progress
Speed to market and a robust innovation pipeline are the most important ingredients. Once you're on the trajectory of progress, you increase your speed going forward.

TM Forum Day 1 Highlights - Customer Experience is Key
TM Forum Management World is taking place this week in Dublin, and here are Day 1 Highlights -- Customer Experience is Key: Alcatel-Lucent is showcasing our services innovations around cloud, customer experience and managed services

TM Forum Day 2 Highlights - OSS/IT
On Day 2 of TM Forum Management World in Dublin, Alcatel-Lucent consultants and industry analysts discuss the importance of OSS/IT to innovative new services as well as reduce CAPEX and OPEX.

TTM Forum Day 3 Highlights - Cloud
On Day 3 of TM Forum Management World in Dublin, Alcatel-Lucent consultants talk about the cloud opportunities for network operators.

400G coherent optics
Reaching Farther, Faster. 400G Photonic Service Engine. Four times the speed. Capacity to spare. World's first commercial 400G coherent solution.

Doubling GSM Voice Capacity with Alcatel-Lucent's Vamos
This demonstration recorded in Paris-Vélizy labs shows how the GSM network voice capacity can be boosted thanks to the VAMOS software feature; Vamos, GSM,QPSK, GMSK, SAIC handset, TWIN TRX, SUMX board, MX-BSC, ATCA Controller Evolution.

The Magic of VDSL2 Vectoring
VDSL2 Vectoring is hot. Analyst firm — Broadbandtrends estimates that by 2017 — 27% of all VDSL2 lines will be Vectored. Stefaan Vanhastel — Marketing Director, Alcatel-Lucent Fixed Networks — will take us through the magic world of Vectoring and explain how it works, what it brings, and how this technology will literally change the lives of hundreds of millions of people around the world.
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Sprint's Views on Business Integrity and Compliance
When making vendor selections, Sprint has clear business integrity and compliance standards that must be upheld. Sprint's Vice President of Supply Chain Gene Agee joins us to discuss the importance of business integrity, compliance and the key elements needed for best in class compliance programs.
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Video on Demand and the Bandwidth Challenge
Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs' has conducted a study to forecast video growth and quantify its impact on residential broadband networks. We talk to Tony Kourlas, product marketing manager at Alcatel-Lucent to reveal some of the key findings from this Bell Labs study and what it means for service providers.
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"Caring for the Climate" - Alcatel-Lucent is recognized among top 25 performers
In the UN Caring for Climate Progress Report 2012, Alcatel-Lucent was recognized among the top 25 performers for its "Caring for Climate" initiative.
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Countless Connections. One Customer Experience. Alcatel-Lucent.
The demand for broadband services is exploding as customers seek a richer and more personalized connected experience. Service providers are focused on enabling their customers with a superior experience as a means to attract and retain subscribers. David Stevenson, President of Alcatel-Lucent's Customer Experience Solutions, shares his perspective surrounding the Customer Experience Management industry buzz and the growing opportunities in the mobility space.
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Is Trust the New Currency?
How important is security and privacy to consumers and how can service providers secure their trust? Allison Cerra, VP of Marketing at Alcatel-Lucent, shares some fascinating insights into consumer perception of online privacy -- revealed through an interesting research approach known as "ethnography."
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Maark's perspective on Alcatel-Lucent's New Conversation APIs
Michael Colombo -- Partner and CEO of Maark discusses how his company is taking advantage of Alcatel-Lucent's New Conversation APIs to build unique and differentiating apps. New Conversation APIs are a powerful set of APIs that give developers easy access to rich IMS features.
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Reliability and Availability of Cloud Computing
Alcatel-Lucent's reliability engineer Randee Adams tell us how her new co-authored book provides IS/IT system and solution architects, developers, and engineers with the knowledge needed to assess the impact of virtualization and cloud computing on service reliability and availability. It reveals how to select the most appropriate design for reliability diligence to assure that user expectations are met. The book is available from Amazon, Wiley.com, iBook and other retailers.
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Agnity perspective on Alcatel-Lucent's New Conversation APIs
The GreenTouch Consortium is working on ways to improve energy efficiency of communications networks by a factor of 1,000. This is the equivalent of taking 50 million cars off the road. Recently appointed chairman Thierry Van Landegem from Bell Labs joins us and provides an update on the progress.
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New Conversation APIs from Alcatel-Lucent (Part 1 of 2) Communications are evolving from a standalone service to a set of critical features that will be embedded into everything - appliances, applications, browsers, games, web-site, machines and more. APIs are the delivery mechanism that will make that happen and are the currency of today's data communication driven economy. Alcatel-Lucent has introduced a set of powerful New Conversation APIs enabling Service Providers to rapidly innovate on their IMS communications platform and in doing so bridge telecom and web services.
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Telecom Industry Works Together to Reduce Energy Consumption
The GreenTouch Consortium is working on ways to improve energy efficiency of communications networks by a factor of 1,000. This is the equivalent of taking 50 million cars off the road. Recently appointed chairman Thierry Van Landegem from Bell Labs joins us and provides an update on the progress.
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Alcatel-Lucent Joins MIT's Top 50 Most Innovative Companies
In 2012, Alcatel-Lucent joined an elite circle of technology stars like Apple, Facebook and Twitter on MIT's Technology Review's TR50 list which recognizes commercial innovations most likely to 'change lives around the world.'
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API Makes the Rockin Web-World Go Round
Application Programming Interface (API) is used by various software components to communicate with each other.
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Learning From Japan's Energy Savings Plan
With only a fraction of the nuclear power plants running - Japan is looking to dramatically cut energy consumption.
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New Zealand's Orcon Ensures Online Video Quality Meets Consumer Expectations
Using Alcatel-Lucent's AppGlide Online Video Analytics solution enables Orcon to accurately measure the quality of streamed video, and use these detailed insights to help improve customer satisfaction.
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Pioneering Approach to Carbon Footprint Estimation
Gabrielle Giner - Programme Manager, Environmental Sustainability at BT explains what prompted her company to ask Alcatel-Lucent to join a pilot study for measuring carbon footprint in ICT products.
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Seeing 20/20 with Optical Networking Research
We talk to Andrew Chraplyvy - Vice President of Optical Research for Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Labs organization.
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The Future of Technology
Marcus Weldon - Alcatel-lucent CTO joins Digital Ideas. We discuss technology trends for 2012 and beyond with emphasis on what they mean to society, service providers and the equipment vendor community.
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The Future of Wireless is Wired
Marcus Weldon, Alcatel-Lucent's CTO explains why wires and fixed networks are always going to be an important part of our wireless world. We discuss unlicensed spectrum, 4G/LTE and predictions about wireless growth over the next 5 years.
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What Can Telecom Innovation Do For Us?
Markus Hofmann Head of Bell Labs Research for Alcatel-Lucent joins us on Digital Ideas. We discuss whether or not telecom innovation still exists today.
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What have you done for the planet lately?
That is the question that 13 year old Kripi Badonia asked Alcatel-Lucent CEO Ben Verwaayen a few years ago. Ben answered that question and many others but it made a lasting impression.
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How to Strengthen Your Core: ALU VP Talks About the 7950 XRS
Alcatel-Lucent recently launched the most powerful and energy efficient core router family in the market today. Alcatel-Lucent's VP of Product Marketing - Lindsay Newell talks about the 7950 XRS, why core routing is more important than ever and why the latest core router technology is essential for Service Providers to provide their customers with the best user experience possible.
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Mobile Technologies Continue to Evolve
Markus Hofmann - head of research for Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Labs organization talks about what his team is doing to continue to evolve mobile technologies and what future applications we might see in mobile networks.
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Boao Forum Perspectives on Cloud, Mobility and Social Media
Alcatel-Lucent APAC President Rajeev Singh-Molares attended the Boao Forum Asia 2012. He talks about the benefits of the cloud phenomenon and how it allows businesses large and small to redefine how they go to market and create more value at a lower cost.
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Sustainability Brings Gold for Alcatel-Lucent!
Alcatel-Lucent's Director of Corporate Responsibility - Christine Diamente joins us to talk about the company's recent inclusion in Sustainable Asset Management (SAM) "Sustainability Yearbook 2012" with 3 distinctions: 2012 Gold Class, 2012 Sector Leader, 2012 Sector Mover.
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Mobile Broadband Can Improve Lives
Alcatel-Lucent's Asia-Pacific president - Rajeev Singh-Molares joins us to talk about the World Economic Forum's (WEF) Davos meeting.
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GreenTouch & Alcatel-Lucent Save Energy in Wireline
GreenTouch Consortium aims to improve the energy efficiency of information & communications technology (ICT) networks by a factor of 1,000.
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