Alcatel-Lucent Unveils Industry's First, Most Comprehensive Architecture for Evolving Mobile Transport Networks to All-IP
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Introduces three new cell site aggregation platforms that reduce cost and complexity of transport
BERLIN, Broadband World Forum, Oct. 8 / / -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced its Mobile Evolution Transport Architecture (META), the industry's first and most comprehensive architecture for profitably evolving mobile networks from TDM to all-IP. As demand for multimedia services is increasing*, the META architecture enables mobile network operators (CDMA/EV-DO, GSM/UMTS and WiMAX) to aggressively expand the scale of their networks to more efficiently and cost effectively support the transport of voice and data traffic from the cell site to the core.
META supports the most diverse set of transport alternatives to enable the evolution to all-IP across any media (copper, fiber, wireless). META also provides for dramatic network simplification with integrated management across fixed and mobile technology domains delivering significant operating expense (OPEX) reductions of as much as 44%**. META bridges the bandwidth and revenue gap, enabling providers to increase ARPU in the face of rapid subscriber growth.
META leverages Alcatel-Lucent's leadership in fixed, mobile, network management and services domains, to deliver an evolutionary approach that enables providers to leverage existing infrastructure-ATM, TDM, DSL/GPON, IP/MPLS, SONET (including pseudowire technology), for the profitable migration to all-IP. This initiative is the first major architecture announced since the merger of former Alcatel and Lucent Technologies.
"With the dramatic surge in mobile subscribers from today's nearly 3 billion to more than 5 billion within 3 to 5 years, and the ramp up of data traffic for new multimedia services, mobile operators face a major challenge. META provides our customers with a staged evolution to an all-IP infrastructure while significantly reducing the complexity and cost of their transport network," said Michel Rahier, President of Alcatel-Lucent's carrier business activity.
To fulfill the promise of META, Alcatel-Lucent also is announcing three new cell site aggregation products that support the diversity of "first mile" access types, while greatly simplifying the aggregation and backhaul of broadband traffic. Alcatel-Lucent's 9500 Microwave Packet Radio (MPR), 1850 Transport Service Switch (TSS)-5, and 7705 Service Aggregation Router (SAR) enable the aggressive and profitable evolution from existing microwave, TDM and ATM infrastructures to all-IP.
"With these three new cell-site aggregation products, Alcatel-Lucent can support mobile transport evolution to all-IP from cell site to core for CDMA or UMTS access, and across microwave, copper, or fiber backhaul networks," said Patrick Donegan, senior analyst at Heavy Reading. "META is one of the industry's most comprehensive end to end frameworks for mobile transport evolution to all-IP supported by management integration across wireline and wireless technology domains and designed to deliver the simplified management, end to end OAM, and QoS that mobile service providers require."
* According to Yankee Group's research in February 2007, the aggregate
annual usage for mobile packet data services in the US should see a
600% growth between 2006 and 2009.
** Source: Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs Business Case 2007.
META builds upon Alcatel-Lucent's leadership in the IP transformation of fixed networks, based on its successfully deployed triple play service delivery infrastructure (TPSDA). Leveraging the service-aware capabilities of MPLS and the economies of Ethernet, META provides the scalability, high availability, quality of service (QoS) and operation administration and maintenance (OAM) capabilities that mobile operators require. With end-to-end, seamless "Service Aware Management" across the fixed and mobile domains, META enables mobile operators to dramatically simplify network operation and reduce costs. This unique capability allows mobile providers to manage across base stations and transport infrastructure in a single view.
META leverages Alcatel-Lucent's unmatched expertise in end-to-end IP network transformation, and leadership in CDMA, 2G/3G mobile, microwave, IP/MPLS, DSL/GPON, SONET/SDH, network management, and services.
More than 150 mobile operators have recognized Alcatel-Lucent's leadership in mobile transport evolution, including SFR.
About Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) provides solutions that enable service providers, enterprises and governments worldwide, to deliver voice, data and video communication services to end-users. As a leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband networking, IP technologies, applications, and services, Alcatel-Lucent offers the end-to-end solutions that enable compelling communications services for people at home, at work and on the move. With operations in more than 130 countries, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with global reach. The company has the most experienced global services team in the industry, and one of the largest research, technology and innovation organizations in the telecommunications industry. Alcatel-Lucent achieved adjusted proforma revenues of Euro 18.3 billion in 2006 and is incorporated in France, with executive offices located in Paris. [All figures exclude impact of activities transferred to Thales]. For more information, visit Alcatel-Lucent on the Internet: http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/
Source: Alcatel-Lucent
CONTACT: Dick Muldoon of Alcatel-Lucent, +1-908-582-1616, rpmuldoon@alcatel-lucent.com
Web site: http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/
