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Paris,
February 10, 2009 – Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today
announced availability of the 7210 Service Access Switch, a family of next
generation, small footprint customer edge devices that extends Carrier Ethernet
to the enterprise site. Owned and managed by the service provider, the 7210 SAS
responds to the enterprise demand for richer service and application offerings
over Carrier Ethernet, supported by guaranteed quality of service (QoS) that
extends to the customer site.
Enterprises
globally have long deployed Ethernet for its scale and cost benefits, but have
demanded more reliability and quality of service to support mission-critical
applications – which is possible with the combination of MPLS and Ethernet in
the Alcatel-Lucent portfolio. With the addition of the 7210 Service Access
Switch, service providers have a powerful end-to-end portfolio to address the
transition to Carrier Ethernet from private line – a market which was valued at
approximately USD40 billion worldwide in 2008 according to analyst firm IDC*.
By deploying the Alcatel-Lucent portfolio, operators can offer enterprises
higher bandwidth services, with faster time-to-market and reduced IT costs,
helping operators to better address the Carrier Ethernet Services market which
is set to grow 22% per year and be worth USD12Bn by 2012 according to
IDC*.
Designed as
customer located equipment (CLE), the 7210 SAS will be deployed at the
enterprise customer site or multi-tenant unit (MTU), helping service providers
to increase revenue with a full suite of highly available, fully managed
Ethernet and IP virtual private network (VPN) services to support demanding
enterprise applications. In addition, the 7210 SAS leverages the Alcatel-Lucent
Service Router Operating System (SR OS), deployed in more than 30,000 switches
and routers by 260 service providers in 100+ countries since 2004. This
provides the operator multiple benefits that lower customer acquisition costs
including consistency of features, quality of service and management – from
network core to customer edge.
Alcatel-Lucent has played a pivotal role in the
evolution of Carrier Ethernet, and in understanding the distinct network
requirements of service providers based ontheir business and market objectives.
In response Alcatel-Lucent has developed its Carrier Ethernet framework, a
three-tiered structure that responds to a wide variety of operators, from
wholesale to retail, from MSOs to competitive carriers and
incumbents.
- The transport
layer helps reduce the cost of building and operating the network to carry high
volumes of business and consumer traffic, enabling the migration from legacy
circuit switching to Carrier Ethernet-based packet transport
- The services
layer helps expand the reach and scale of consumer and business services,
leveraging the Carrier Ethernet network for faster time to market and
simplified management. This layer is boosted by the addition of the 7210
Service Access Switch
- The
application enablement layer addresses operators’ desire to leverage their
network assets to develop new sources of revenue. Using this layer,
Alcatel-Lucent can help service providers to optimize specific applications
such as IPTV over their networks and tap into additional revenue opportunities
such as advertising
“IDC believes this is a good
product release for Alcatel-Lucent,” wrote IDC analyst Eve Griliches, in a
February 2009 report entitled Alcatel-Lucent Summons the Next Phase of
Carrier Ethernet Evolution. “The Carrier Ethernet framework helps define
the Carrier Ethernet challenges going forward, shows how they will address them
in this next year, and delivers a new product in a space that is emerging on a
timely basis. We believe that other vendors will begin to deliver products
similar to this but may or may not have the end-to-end SLA
management.”
“The
introduction of the 7210 Service Access Switch, and its extension of the
Carrier Ethernet framework into enterprise sites, gives service providers the
ability to better leverage their network assets as well as improve
profitability,” said Basil Alwan, President of Alcatel-Lucent’s IP activities.
“We’re providing a framework that offers a structured approach to exploit the
network for better user quality of experience and grow their revenue
opportunities. Operators can enhance network capacity to deal with high-volume,
low-value traffic, but also optimize network intelligence to deliver advanced
managed services and applications, monetizing their network investment and
reducing customer churn.”
*IDC,
Worldwide Telecommunications Market Trends, Doc # TB20080807, August
2008
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information visit: www1.alcatel-lucent.com/ipnews
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