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Exhaustive, industry first independent tests confirm
a best-in-class solution with superior scalability and resilience
Paris, June 25, 2008 − Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE:
ALU)today announced that Isocore Internetworking Lab, the leader in validation
and interoperability of emerging and next generation technologies, presented a
comprehensive report confirming the scalability and resilience of
Alcatel-Lucent’s industry leading IP/MPLS portfolio for mobile backhaul. The
independent performance verification by Isocore is an industry first and
designed to evaluate the ability of Alcatel-Lucent’s solution to meet the needs
of mobile service operators for backhauling disparate cellular networks across
common IP/MPLS networks under the most demanding conditions.
“The overall results indicate that the tested solution is one of the most
comprehensive mobile backhaul solutions available in the industry,” said Dr.
Bijan Jabbari, President of Isocore. “Isocore feels comfortable in stating the
scalability and feature richness of the Alcatel-Lucent mobile backhaul solution
and believes, based on verifiable results, that the solutions evaluated during
this testing series deliver comprehensive industry-leading mobile backhaul
services.”
The independent performance verification conducted by Isocore was
commissioned by Alcatel-Lucent to confirm the scalability and resilience of its
end-to-end IP/MPLS RAN aggregation and backhaul solutions within the
Alcatel-Lucent Mobile Evolution Transport Architecture (META). Multiple
iterations of each test were conducted with special emphasis being placed on
resilience mechanisms. Tests confirmed that voice calls can be maintained by
the Alcatel-Lucent MBH solution even in catastrophic node failure scenarios
because the recovery mechanisms and features were able to successfully preserve
the integrity of calls.
“These excellent results confirm our ability to deploy best in class IP
mobile backhaul solutions that are now setting new industry standards for
better scalability, higher availability, and superior resilience,” said Basil
Alwan, President of Alcatel-Lucent’s IP activities. “As mobile backhaul
networks transition to all IP networks, validating the scalability, resilience,
and clock synchronization capabilities of an end-to-end all IP MBH solution is
essential for wide-scale market adoption. Our willingness to subject our IP MBH
solution to rigorous third party testing by Isocore reflects our commitment to
bring the most robust and independently validated solutions to the market.”
Isocore’s evaluation focused on the Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router and
Alcatel-Lucent 7705 Service Aggregation Router as Systems Under Test (SUT) for
CDMA/EVDO and GSM/UMTS/HSPA backhaul as well as for transport of Circuit
Emulated Services (CES) and timing distribution over IP/MPLS. These tests
certify that IP / MPLS solutions to the cell site fully support today’s 2G and
3G technologies and that the solution satisfies and exceeds the requirements
for resilient voice services, network timing, and high availability mobile
backhaul transport. The tests also verify the readiness of the IP/MPLS mobile
backhaul solution to support tomorrow’s 4G, LTE, and enhanced packet core
solutions as they move to complete end to end IP.
The rigorous tests were conducted by Isocore with support from
Alcatel-Lucent engineers in March 2008 using the Agilent Technologies N2X
Multiservice Test Solution to simulate the demanding deployment realities of
mobile operators for the foreseeable future. Agilent’s N2X was selected for the
test bed because of its capability to provide accurate real-time statistics in
a scaled test environment.
About Isocore
Isocore provides technology validation, certification and product evaluation
services in emerging and next generation Internet and wireless technologies.
Isocore is leading validation and interoperability of novel technologies
including MPLS, Carrier Ethernet, IPv6, IP Optical Integration, wireless
backhauling and Layer 2/3 Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), IPTV service
deployment architecture validation, and certification of other provider
backbone technologies. Major router and switch vendors, Service Providers, and
test equipment suppliers participate in Isocore activities. Isocore has major
offices in the USA (the Washington DC area), Europe (Paris, France) and Asia
(Tokyo, Japan). For more information on the test, visit http://www1.alcatel-lucent.com/bnd/mobile/
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