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Performance Management for Enterprise WANs
Exponential-e A³ (A-Cubed) service is based on Alcatel-Lucent’s Application-Assured Business Networking solution. By enabling cloud-based application performance assurance for business VPN and Internet services, Exponential-e has clearly differentiated its corporate network service offering.
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Service Providers can see the benefits of Alcatel-Lucent’s AA-VPN solution to effectively address the enterprise application-centric requirements and differentiate their Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPN VPN and Internet service offerings.
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Today, to offer application-based VPN solutions to an enterprise, a service provider would probably have to deploy appliances at every one of their locations – and that means labor-intensive work with significant capital expenses, not to mention slower service introductions.
With Alcatel-Lucent’s Application-Assured VPN offering, however, services can be enabled using a "cloud-based" model, yet with the security, privacy and quality of service enterprises would expect from a premises-based solution.
This opens the way for you to create substantial new revenue opportunities by offering application assurance for voice, video and business critical data applications such as SAP, Citrix, email, voice over IP (VoIP), videoconferencing, Instant Messaging, NetMeeting and more – all while leveraging your existing network assets, without incurring significant capital costs.
“With the Alcatel-Lucent Application Assurance solution, our enterprise customers will have clear insight into how much bandwidth various applications are using – this is a key element of our ‘Smart Networking’ initiative, which is geared toward bringing greater intelligence to our networks for the benefit of our customers. On the whole, enterprises are very concerned about the performance of applications they access from the cloud – this new solution will help eliminate those concerns, and put enterprises in a better position to take advantage of the cost and flexibility benefits that the cloud has to offer. As importantly, our customers can take advantage of the service quickly and cost effectively, because there is no need for on-site equipment.” |
Tom Wuyts
Director WAN, Internet & Security (Enterprise Business Unit) at Belgacom |
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“The Alcatel-Lucent Application Assured VPN solution has allowed Exponential-e to hit a sweet spot with its ”A3” capability for customers looking to gain application level visibility inside their WAN environment and to apply the desired quality of service for each application” said Mukesh Bavisi, Director of Network Operations. “Exponential-e can clearly differentiate its corporate network service offerings and enable cloud-based application performance assurance for business VPNs and Internet service.” |
“There has been a lot of interest from service providers in providing these ‘application-aware’ services. The Alcatel-Lucent solution addresses this interest, but in a somewhat different way in that the capabilities are in the network so it is potentially lower cost to end-users, more highly scalable, and easier to provide for Service Providers.” |
Peter Hall
Principal Analyst, Ovum Enterprise |
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Differentiate your VPN offering
Stand apart from the rest of your competitors by offering your enterprise customers far better network planning, usage, billing, and reporting capabilities, thanks to visibility of all application traffic over their wide area network at an incredibly granular level.
Enterprises working with you will also experience enhanced performance of business critical applications over their Carrier Ethernet and IP VPN services. They’ll be able to focus on their core business and rely on you for managing their network and applications.
High performance capabilities
Our AA-VPN makes available to your enterprise customers a dedicated Web Portal that provides visibility of their applications across the network. Using the portal, enterprises can also manage application prioritization and bandwidth optimization, enabling significant improvements in network planning, usage and application performance.
Our powerful and robust AA-VPN solution lets your customers move from inconsistent application performance to consistent application performance over the WAN. It generates comprehensive reports that illuminate the application traffic mix and identify usage trends, allowing IT Directors to optimize applications to align with their company’s business priorities and empowering them to monitor and control applications traversing their VPN.
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