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Leverages silicon innovations to deliver massive bandwidth
where it is needed most, offering industry-leading speed, services support and
power efficiency
Paris, July 16, 2009 — To help service providers around the world
meet the massive bandwidth demands caused by explosive growth in video traffic
and sophisticated consumer and business IP services, Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext:
Paris and NYSE: ALU) today introduced the industry’s first 100 Gigabit Ethernet
service routing interface for the edge, where service providers need it most.
The new service interface leverages unique silicon innovations to deliver
massive bandwidth to support a wide variety of end-user services with
industry-leading speed and quality, while offering dramatic improvements in
power efficiency.
The edge of the network is critical because it's considered the 'command
center' where most of the intelligence in the network resides, and where
determinations are made about how individual services, such as high-definition
video, need to be handled to ensure an optimal experience for end-users.
Expanding capacity at the edge enables service providers to simultaneously
reduce the cost per bit of IP transport substantially, while also enhancing
their network to deliver increasingly sophisticated high value services.
Alcatel-Lucent’s groundbreaking new offerings are the first in the industry to
address these dual requirements.
“TELUS is committed to innovating and delivering new services for
residential, business and mobile customers in all our markets focused in
Canada. These new services and the traffic they generate require a combination
of speed, scale and high availability,” said Eros Spadotto, Executive VP,
Technology Strategy, TELUS, a leading national telecommunications company in
Canada. “Selecting advanced platforms that enable us to evolve our network to
support 100 Gigabit Ethernet gives us the assurance that we can continue to
introduce the most sophisticated services and meet the needs of our customers
now and far into the future.”
Through the introduction of a 100 Gigabit service interface on its 7750
Service Router (SR) and 7450 Ethernet Service Switch (ESS), the Alcatel-Lucent
service router portfolio will deliver 100 Gigabit performance while continuing
to support the full scope of broadband services – speed, services and
scalability with no compromise. This is an essential requirement for operators
carrying premium managed services such as business VPNs and IPTV alongside
“over-the-top” traffic such as web-based video.
“Traffic keeps growing, but service providers need to make money. For this,
they not only need higher speeds and capacities, but they need service
flexibility at the same time,” stated Michael Howard, principal analyst at
Infonetics Research. “We’re encouraged to see Alcatel-Lucent support 100
Gigabit Ethernet with services enablement for the edge and the metro, as well
as high-speed transport in the core. The fact that these products use the
Alcatel-Lucent FP2 silicon that’s been shipping for over a year helps reduce
risk as service providers move to 100 Gigabit interfaces within their
networks.”
At the heart of the 100 Gigabit Ethernet capability is Alcatel-Lucent’s
award-winning, home-grown FP2 silicon. Shipping since July 2008, the FP2
silicon now enables the 7750 SR and 7450 ESS to support 100 Gigabit linecards,
a 2x increase in performance compared to today’s line cards, further building
on the company’s innovation and leadership position. This means that operators
who have deployed Alcatel-Lucent service routers since 2004 can simply add new
line cards and immediately multiply capacity up to 100 Gigabits per slot
without service interruption.
“Delivering higher performance networks and reducing power consumption per
bit is essential to meeting the needs of service providers worldwide. What sets
Alcatel-Lucent’s service routers apart from the rest of the industry is the
combination of speed, scale and multiservice flexibility – it’s these
capabilities which enable service providers to generate more revenue from their
networks,” said Basil Alwan, president of Alcatel-Lucent’s IP activities. “Our
focus on service performance and scale, not just capacity, is how we continue
to enhance the service routing proposition to deliver value and investment
protection to our customers.”
“The combination of high performance and intelligence is also absolutely
critical as operators evolve to what Alcatel-Lucent calls the ‘high leverage
network.’ This is a fully converged, scalable, next generation, all-IP
multiservice infrastructure that enables operators to deliver traffic more
reliably, efficiently and at the lowest cost, while also leveraging the network
to generate revenue from sophisticated managed services and applications,”
Alwan added.
For service providers, minimizing space and power requirements remain key
vectors for containing costs and maintaining an environmentally friendly
operation. Alcatel-Lucent’s FP2 silicon innovations and enhancements in
thermal efficiency reduce power consumption to levels approaching four watts
per gigabit with the new 100 Gigabit Ethernet interface modules, a
significant improvement compared to the 10 Gigabit and 40 Gigabit alternatives
widely deployed today. These enhancements further reduce the already low
power consumption profile of Alcatel-Lucent's router portfolio, which is among
the best in the industry.
For service providers needing greater than 10 Gigabit Ethernet density, but
not yet ready to move to 100 Gigabit speeds, Alcatel-Lucent also today
introduced a new 10-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet line cards for the 7750 SR and
7450 ESS. Based on the same FP2 silicon, these line cards deliver up to three
hundred 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports in a standard telecom rack, including support
for a full range of IP/MPLS services.
The new line cards will be available for demonstrations in 4Q 2009 and
commercially in mid-2010.
Alcatel-Lucent has shipped more than 35,000 IP/MPLS service router portfolio
systems since 2004, resulting in an installed base of more than 270 service
provider customers in 100+ countries. In 1Q09, Alcatel-Lucent took over the #1
position in IP Edge Routing in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region
according to Infonetics and reinforced its #2 global position at 20 percent.
For more information, please visit: www.alcatel-lucent.com/ipnews
Press Conference details
Alcatel-Lucent will hold a web press conference for this announcement
today, July 16, at 8am PST/ 11am EST/ 5pm CET, which will be
hosted by the president of Alcatel-Lucent’s IP Division and head of Carrier
Group Portfolio Strategy, Basil Alwan.
To access the audio session please dial:
PARTICIPANT TOLL FREE: 1-800-988-9362
PARTICIPANT TOLL (International): 1-312-470-7359
Participant Passcode: 8135800
To access the webcast URL click on:
 http://alcatel-lucent.na3.acrobat.com/ipstrategy/
If journalists would like to ask questions following the event please
contact sarah.miller@alcatel-lucent.com
or kurt.steinert@alcatel-lucent.com.
The press conference will be available for digital replay immediately
following the event on the Alcatel-Lucent website at the following link: http://alcatel-lucent.na3.acrobat.com/ipstrategyreplay/.
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