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Multivendor Network Integration

The way to IP

Internet Protocol (IP) technology has created a vast number of opportunities for business users and consumers, powering the Internet, and causing mobile and media revolutions. Now IP is pervading all forms of mobile and fixed networking technology, for end users, through the core, to suppliers and partners. Service providers and enterprises must acquire a new, open, yet secure, network where systems, applications and other related technologies from a mix of vendors interoperate harmoniously in a scalable fashion.

To meet this challenge, it is paramount to form an Alcatel-Lucent High Leverage Network™ (HLN) predictably and quickly. An Alcatel-Lucent HLN can help reduce operating expenditures (OPEX) and generate new revenue streams through new applications, media, partnerships and business conditions. The High Leverage Network™ offers both a model for the network of tomorrow and a framework for evolving to it while tackling the urgent challenges of today.

Given the scope and scale of most Alcatel-Lucent HLN transformations — even if undertaken incrementally — a number of different vendors, suppliers and partners need to be engaged and managed, dependencies considered, and accountabilities upheld. This requires a fairly extensive mix of IP integration skills and experience, as well as the ability to handle large-scale multivendor transformation with minimal risk.

Multivendor network integration involves a range of technology and service types including IP-Multi-Protocol Label Switching (IP-MPLS), IMS, cable, Long Term Evolution (LTE) and Evolved Packet Core (EPC). To this end, Alcatel-Lucent also works with a set of strategic ecosystem partners for projects ranging from network integration to cloud-computing initiatives.

Multivendor network integration helps speed network rollouts, pivotal upgrades and major transformations, ensuring capitalization of your network investments and enablement of applications.

Speeding IP implementation

Quick execution of your move to IP is key to a successful transformation. Partnering with an integrator who possesses a strong set of people, tools, centers and processes is crucial. These skills enable you to deploy, integrate and migrate fixed and wireless networking solutions quickly and simply. Some key multivendor network-integration services to evaluate are:

  • Business-scenario planning services: Strategies, processes and tools that enable you to cut new service launch intervals significantly. Early consultation and dedicated design that uses cost algorithms can save significant capital expenditures (CAPEX) and OPEX over the long term while building next-generation access, core, voice and media networks. Integration planning can save you considerable cash outlays over several years, freeing up valuable resources.

    With Alcatel-Lucent, you are partnering with a company that has experience planning more than 70 IP transformations and that owns patent-pending design tools for IMS, MPLS, LTE, Ethernet, optical and other IP technologies.
  • Multivendor deployment, implementation and testing: Uses automated tools that address IP configuration as well as capacity and equipment requirements. Leveraging integration methodologies that tackle telecommunication and IT technologies, business practices and industry standards can cut integration timelines and ensure long-term Quality of Service (QoS). Alcatel-Lucent has experience integrating multivendor products from all top-tier vendors and thousands of network- and system-element types.

    With specially designed tools for modern network testing, you can cut acceptance testing more than 50-percent compared to less automated means for popular IP technologies such as IMS. Speedy and reliable regression tests, which finish in hours rather than several days or weeks, help accelerate implementing new networks, managing upgrades and launching new applications over IP.

    For deployment and implementation, customers benefit from what the industry has recognized: “Network and systems integration is a stronghold of Alcatel-Lucent.” – Yankee Group, December 2009.
  • Proof-of-concept verification, device testing and large-scale integration: Alcatel-Lucent has made multimillion-dollar investments in regional transformation-service-delivery centers, such as the IP Transformation Centers (IPTCs), providing essential services that include QoS validation, reliability and scalability. These centers help to manage transformation risks and multivendor interoperability.

“We were impressed with the IPTC's capabilities … that’s really nuts and bolts transformation stuff.”
Jerry Caron and Sandra O'Boyle, Current Analysis, September 2010

Reap the benefits of IP

By simplifying and speeding up network integration for new technologies, Alcatel-Lucent supports your transformation to IP networks and services. Working closely with you, we build an HLN that provides opportunities, adds value and cuts costs immediately. Tailored consulting, human-resources collaboration, and leading tools, methods and global centers pave the way for improvements in time-to-market and reliable networks.