The Ultimate Wireless Broadband End-to-End LTE solution is the industry's most comprehensive solution to unleash wireless broadband innovation. Our industry leading solution enables you to successfully evolve your business model and realize the revenues, reduced costs, and increased efficiency delivered by Long-Term Evolution (LTE). It provides an integrated, pre-tested end-to-end LTE network, an open ecosystem of devices, content and application partners, plus transformation and integration services. This solution enables you to fully harness the advantages of wireless IP service delivery and evolve to an open Web-based business model.

Capture the next wireless broadband opportunity

The wireless market is reaching a tipping point, driven by consumer demand for a seamless multimedia experience, an increasingly diversified competitive landscape, exponential traffic growth — and flattening subscription revenues.

• Mobile data usage surged in 2008, fueled by the success of 3G-enabled laptops, ultra-mobile PCs and innovative handsets, plus online video and social networking applications.

• End users are demanding enriched, personalized services with a guaranteed Quality of Experience (QoE).

• Subscriber growth rates are slowing and traditional user-paid revenues are flattening.

To address these changing market conditions, you need an innovative business model that can generate additional revenue from content providers, application providers and other new sources. You also need a next-generation wireless broadband network that can support sky-rocketing demand for bandwidth and QoE, while reducing your total cost of ownership (TCO).

LTE technology enables you to meet these requirements by providing unprecedented bandwidth, latency and capacity. As the next evolution for all wireless radio access technologies, LTE opens new opportunities to offer enriched wireless broadband services, expand your business significantly, and achieve a stronger competitive position. LTE all-IP infrastructure provides enhanced service agility allowing you to augment current business models. You can strengthen user-paid revenues with new IP services, such as multi-screen video and location-based offerings — and generate additional revenues from nontraditional services, such as targeted advertising, content brokering and e-commerce transactions.

The Alcatel-Lucent (News - Alert) Ultimate Wireless Broadband solution provides you with the key elements for success in the new wireless broadband market:

Integrated LTE and IP products meet growing demand for bandwidth cost effectively, while supporting an enriched end-user experience. The Alcatel-Lucent solution combines flexible, software-defined LTE radio access with a flat-IP service-aware network — including a purpose-built all-IP Evolved Packet Core (EPC), IP transport solution, and field-proven Service Delivery Environment (SDE). You gain:

• Unprecedented scalability, cost efficiency, service agility and QoE for end users

• Smooth evolution and seamless service continuity from any wireless access technology (GSM, UMTS, CDMA, EV/DO, TD-SCDMA and WiMAX (News - Alert))

An open ecosystem of devices, content and applications enables innovative business and operational models — and speeds the launch of new services. The ng Connect Program, led by Alcatel-Lucent, brings together a non-traditional mix of partners, including device, content and application developers from the telecommunications, Web, media and consumer electronic industries. By working together on innovative new services, proof of concept development and integration with the end-to-end LTE network, you benefit from:

• Innovative service creation and new business models

• Reduced time to market

A full suite of IP transformation and integration services promotes smooth evolution to LTE, while minimizing risk. With these consulting, project management, multivendor integration, operations and managed network services, you can:

• Minimize the duration and cost of transforming to all-IP wireless

• Maximize LTE operational efficiency

To help you profit from the LTE opportunity, Alcatel-Lucent provides a service-aware, agile, flat-IP wireless network that delivers unprecedented QoE — cost effectively.

• Outstanding QoE through world-class user bandwidth, coverage and seamless continuity with 2G/3G networks

• Reduced costs and smooth evolution through zero-footprint deployments, multi-standard, software-defined modules and unified management tools

• Enhanced service agility through flexible use of spectrum in any cell site

• Per-session, per-flow, per-subscriber QoS with advanced centralized policy management and distributed enforcement

• Seamless mobility and interoperability with all 2G/3G architectures

• Purpose-built EPC platforms with highly reliable and secure data and control plane scalability

• Advanced service-awareness and session management features (including Deep Packet Inspection)

• The industry's first comprehensive framework for mobile transport evolution to all-IP

• Full-packet transport with fine-grain QoS features and end-to-end service-aware management

• All-IP integrated backhaul, aggregation and transport of 2G, 3G and LTE traffic

• Delivery of rich SIP services with personalized, interactive and context-aware QoE — which can blend telecom IP communications, Web 2.0 and subscriber data federation services with proven billing solutions

• Agile (News - Alert) service creation and flexible configuration

• Converged SDE that allows a consistent multiscreen experience for communication and entertainment services

Alcatel-Lucent LTE solution is based on our leadership in wireline IP broadband plus our expertise in wireless access.

• To enhance network scalability, service agility and Quality of Service (QoS), we offer expertise in IP service routing and dynamic policy management gained through successful deployment of over 55 Triple Play Service Delivery Architecture (TPSDA) networks.

• For LTE radio access with high performance, smooth evolution and interworking with 2G/3G networks, we draw on our innovations in OFDM/MIMO, software defined radio, flat-IP femto, mobile VoIP and market leadership across all wireless access technologies.

• For successful LTE uptake, we draw on global experience with IPTV (News - Alert) operators — helping create a complete ecosystem of content providers and applications, with innovative service delivery and business models.

• We provide industry-leading expertise in IP transformation, based on our experience with Tier 1 service providers worldwide.

To make the LTE ecosystem a reality, Alcatel-Lucent is spearheading the ng Connect Program, which brings together key stakeholders from telecom, consumer electronics, content, advertising, applications and retail industries. These partners are building a robust, open ecosystem of LTE-enabled devices, content and applications — pre-integrated with the end-to-end LTE network.

Alcatel-Lucent can assist you with each step of your LTE transformation — evolving your business with strategic planning, end-to-end network integration, and managed services. Our full suite of IP transformation services supports a streamlined, secure evolution from 2G, 2.5G, and 3G to flat-IP LTE, backed by a proven methodology and transformation centers for pre-integration and testing. Drawing upon 2300 multi-vendor migration projects, including IMS and wireless access plus best practices gained in wireline broadband transformation and integration projects, Alcatel-Lucent enables a smoother and more efficient LTE deployment.

• Our multi-standard base station facilitates efficient cell site evolution and reduces operational, maintenance and services costs.

• A flat all-IP network reduces operating expenses across the entire network.

• Market-leading Mobile Evolution Transport Architecture (META) shrinks costs — despite broadband traffic growth.

• Transformation and integration services minimize expense, end to end.

• Network agility and an open LTE ecosystem accelerate service deployment.

• Smooth introduction of LTE and IP technologies enables service continuity.

• Comprehensive services support secure evolution to LTE.

• A robust LTE ecosystem enables non-traditional wireless business models.

• Enriched QoE increases uptake of legacy and next-generation offerings, including personalized services, targeted advertising and fulfillment.

• Unmatched policy management, service routing and rich IP communications enable end-to-end QoE.

• Self-optimized LTE radio access delivers high-performance and enriched broadband services that can generate additional revenues and reduce customer churn.

• The ng Connect Program enables a seamless wireline-wireless experience over a wide range of devices.

For more information, visit Alcatel-Lucent.com/LTE