Business VPN Services

Service providers: More than ever before, your enterprise customers want to minimize costs, reduce complexity, improve service quality and add new functionalities. They are also asking you to help them meet the growing bandwidth, reach and reliability requirements for today’s voice, data and video traffic.

Alcatel-Lucent’s full line of Business VPN Solutions and Services present many excellent ways to do all of that.

The Alcatel-Lucent IP/MPLS solution supports your needs as you undertake IP transformation projects and evolve to packet-based network architectures with converged IP voice, data and video running over Layer 2 and/or Layer 3 business VPNs. Once deployed, you can tailor your Business VPN service offerings to each of your enterprise customers’ unique requirements.

Alcatel-Lucent Layer 2 and Layer 3 Business VPNs are complementary in your service portfolio, leveraging a common IP/MPLS network and service-aware management, to fully address the enterprise market's VPN service needs.

And both feature our Application-Assured VPN (AA-VPN), so you can deliver quality and performance and deploy new “cloud-based” revenue-generating services.

Alcatel-Lucent's Service Router and Service Switch IP/MPLS portfolio includes:

• IP VPN - multipoint Layer 3 VPN for multi-site IP networking, with our breakthrough Application-Assurance features to avoid VPN commoditization and give your enterprise customers greater visibility, reporting and control at application level.
• Carrier Ethernet VPNs, bothVirtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) - multipoint Carrier Ethernet VPN (also referred to as an E-LAN Carrier Ethernet service by the Metro Ethernet Forum [MEF]) and Virtual Leased Line (VLL) - point-to-point Carrier Ethernet VPN (also referred to as an E-Line Carrier Ethernet service by the MEF), also with our breakthrough Application-Assurance features
• IPSec VPN for secure extension of a corporate VPN over uncontrolled or untrusted private and public networks

Additionally we offer a VPN Consultative Marketing Program to help you develop and grow your Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPN services business. Our dedicated team of experts will provide market data, business strategies, and joint marketing opportunities to accelerate the go-to-market process.

The Alcatel-Lucent IP/MPLS-based business services solution enables service providers to offer a choice of secure, scalable, flexible and always-on managed business VPN services, which meet enterprise business-critical communications requirements efficiently and cost-effectively, and provide a guaranteed, flexible evolution path with predictable costs. Alcatel-Lucent Business VPN Services solution enables:

• Provide superior performance, scalability and availability to your enterprise customers with Layer 2 Carrier Ethernet VPNs (VLL, VPLS) and Layer 3 Premium VPNs (IP VPN and IPSec).
• Avoid VPN commoditization thanks to theApplication-Assured features of both our Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPNs, which allow you to give your enterprise customers greater visibility, reporting and control at the application level.
• Ethernet/Frame Relay/ATM pseudowire Interworking - Interworking with legacy technologies like Frame Relay and ATM, so transparent LAN services (TLS) can be migrated in a structured manner onto a converged IP/MPLS network
• Dual IPv4/IPv6 capability - The solution provides a comprehensive IPv4/IPv6 capability, giving operators the flexibility to migrate seamlessly, on a per-customer basis, from an IPv4-based virtual private routed network (VPRN) to the more scalable IPv6 VPRN, while preserving the virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) instances
• Five nines availability - An always-on infrastructure is essential for on-demand, business-critical applications. With non-stop routing and non-stop services ensures that VPN services are not affected during a control plane failure as the secondary control module is fully aware of the services and sessions so there is zero downtime during a control plane switchover. This fully ensures service level guarantees are maintained at all times and that carrier Ethernet VPNs can offer rapid and better then SONET-like restoration.
• Predictable, superior performance - With a sub-50 ms failover guaranteed without exceptions, using MPLS fast reroute technology SLAs without compromise, thanks to a deterministic, connection-oriented solution architecture that ensures predictable business VPN service delivery, while a flexible H-QoS implementation enables service providers to customize SLAs per customer, VPN service or application.
• Superior scalability - Industry-leading service scaling, offering cost savings to service providers and their customers. The solution supports tens of thousands of services per node, with thousands of sites per VPN and hundreds of thousands of VPNs per service provider. Provides the service providers with the flexibility of any service over any interface that encompasses multiple businesses. The solution also offers the industry first integrated PBB and MPLS/VPLS to increase scalability and service flexibility for carrier Ethernet business VPN services. The integrated approach greatly improves scalability, both in terms of connectivity and addressing.
• Full suite of OA&M tools - Minimize OPEX and facilitate new revenue streams. Service-aware management leverages a unique set of integrated layer 2 and layer 3 VPN OA&M tools for granular service control of customer, service and transport allow providers to simplify service activation, enable end-to-end service assurance, provide rapid troubleshooting and better reporting capabilities. As well as enabling the service provider to provide the enterprise customer self-care portal capability for SLA monitoring.
• Full standards compliance:
  
• MEF Specifications for E-Line and E-LAN Carrier Ethernet services: the Alcatel-Lucent solution is an MEF 9 and MEF 14 Certified Carrier Ethernet Solution
• Point-to-point VLL in accordance with Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF®) RFC 3916
• Multipoint VPLS in accordance with RFC 4762 and H-VPLS
• IP VPN in accordance with RFC 4364
• Provider Backbone Bridges in accordance with Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE®) 802.1ah; (Alcatel-Lucent is an early adopter of standards-compliant PBB) 
• Partnering with the Service Provider - Alcatel-Lucent understands that each service provider has unique requirements. The VCM program lets service providers choose the type and duration of consultation from a short introductory session to understand goals and issues, to a more involved series of sessions that will address multiple issues related to your VPN services business.