Build business with a trusted foundation

As service providers expand their business and relationships, the network needs to keep pace. It must support today's demands and tomorrow's goals.

An Alcatel-Lucent IMS network gives service providers a solid base to grow and innovate. It is:

• Agile, to foster innovative IMS application development.
• Scalable, to support more customers, apps and services.
• Secure, to protect assets and reassure consumer and enterprise customers.

Embrace service agility

Open innovation helps service providers differentiate and grow in the new conversation value chain. They can build communities for services creation. Services flow seamlessly across networks.

Alcatel-Lucent IMS solutions support strategies for Application Enablement. Service providers can:

• Securely expose IMS APIs to their own development teams and to trusted application and content provider partners to create personalized new services.
• Use IMS APIs to experiment with different types of service development and become more agile.
• Quickly add innovative services that inspire new conversations.

Scale to support more customers, apps and services

Alcatel-Lucent IMS solutions come in configurations to fit every network size — from compact for smaller or getting-started networks to large for distributed networks with tens of millions of subscribers.

Scalability goes beyond subscribers. It's also about supporting new network environments and extending new services to reach the masses. With Alcatel-Lucent IMS solutions, service providers can:

• Take advantage of IMS efficiency and scalability to bring the network and IT worlds together. Deployment models that virtualize new services in data centers increase flexibility and reduce costs.
• Take new services farther. As part of a High Leverage Network™, Alcatel-Lucent IMS solutions support fixed, mobile and web access. And they support HD multimedia services across all access networks.
Now any service can scale to a nationwide service as easily as voice calling.
• Accelerate IMS deployments — especially when Alcatel-Lucent experience in services supplements service provider expertise.

Secure assets and reassure customers

As IP services and traffic increase, service providers must maintain availability, security and quality for consumer and enterprise customers — while keeping costs and risks in check. They cannot afford any loss of reputation or revenues.

Security risks affect service providers at two levels:

• At the customer level, service providers must implement the strictest security rules to ensure customers' personal information and privacy is never compromised.
• At the network level, service providers must ensure there are no service interruptions due to increasingly sophisticated malicious attacks.

Alcatel-Lucent IMS solutions build in security at the product, solution and services levels. A security life cycle ensures hardening at all stages of design, development, deployment and maintenance. IMS security is based on Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs innovations and established security standards.

Partner with our security experts at every phase of the evolution to an IMS network.