- New portfolio offers up to eight times the performance
compared to competitive solutions, allowing IP networks and
services to scale without limits
BASKING RIDGE, New Jersey,
Nov. 12, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- 2014
Alcatel-Lucent Technology Symposium -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext
Paris and NYSE: ALU) is delivering the industry's most complete IP
edge routing software portfolio built to meet the demands of any
carrier cloud environment. The Alcatel-Lucent Virtualized Service
Router (VSR) is an extensive suite of software applications that
will allow IP networks and services to scale flexibly as demand
grows. Based on Alcatel-Lucent's well-tested and proven non-stop
routing code, the portfolio - which is available now and will
continue to roll out in 2015 - will be a rich addition to the
company's routing hardware family.
With this expansion, Alcatel-Lucent gives service providers and
large enterprises both the router software and specialized hardware
necessary to build a flexible network with the right performance
and economics for the cloud era.
By deploying both hardware and software-based routing
functionality, providers will have the best of both worlds, able to
evolve networks at their own pace and choose the service delivery
to meet the specific needs of their customers. For example, they
could opt to support the ultra-high capacity and performance
service demands of large enterprises with hardware-based routers,
and meet the needs of smaller business customers with the flexible
VSR.
Early NFV deployments show a reduced time-to-market from several
months to a few weeks and Alcatel-Lucent is now bringing those
benefits to routing. With this model, Alcatel-Lucent enables the
telecommunications industry to take on a cloud-centric approach
towards building networks and delivering services. This simplifies
the process from ordering to delivery, while reducing the costs and
increasing agility, with the ability to scale up, down or out, as
required.
Key Facts:
- While others have focused on delivering one or two router
virtual network functions, Alcatel-Lucent has drawn from its
extensive experience in developing routing code to deliver the
industry's most complete suite of router applications.
- Alcatel-Lucent has architected its routing software to get the
best performance, resilience and reliability on general purpose
(x86) compute platforms. The company is demonstrating 320G half
duplex, or greater than 2x better than competitor offers, for a
virtualized Provider Edge routing application in a single x86
server.
- Tests for the new Virtualized Route Reflector application
achieved 8x the performance in the control plane over competitor
offers
- Alcatel-Lucent is continuing to innovate in routing hardware
giving providers and enterprises the best of both worlds - the
software and specialized hardware necessary for the carrier
cloud
- Services can now be introduced on a small-scale without huge
outlays in time, cost and support, and then scaled to meet growth
in demand.
- Because the VSR is supported by the same Alcatel-Lucent Service
Router Operator System (SROS) and managed by the 5620 Service Aware
Manager (SAM), providers and enterprises will be able to seamlessly
deploy the VSR alongside its hardware-based routers.
- It is underpinned by Alcatel-Lucent's five-years of NFV
expertise using the CloudBand™ 2.0 NFV platform and its extensive
Nuage Networks SDN capabilities and further builds on our NFV
strategy of delivering a full range of networking solutions for a
software-driven world.
Additional announcements
Alcatel-Lucent is collaborating with Intel to deliver
best-in-class performance and will demonstrate the functionality of
the VSR using Intel servers at the company's Technology Symposium
event.
The company is announcing an addition to its Nuage Networks
Portfolio at the event. The Virtualized Network Services (VNS)
solution extends the Nuage Networks SDN capabilities to enterprise
and service provider branch locations, giving organizations the
freedom to deliver network services to their workgroups
instantaneously and securely over any network infrastructure.
Virtualization realized: IP routing optimized - About the
VSR
Alcatel-Lucent's VSR is designed to operate in any virtualized
network environment and comprises:
- VSR-RR: The industry's highest performance virtualized Route
Reflector. Available now.
- VSR-SIM: The full IP-MPLS software-based router simulator.
Available now.
- VSR-PE: The Virtualized Provider Edge delivering Carrier
Ethernet and IPN services. Available for demonstration now and
commercially available during the first half of 2015.
- VSR-AA: The Virtualized Application Assurance delivers
application-based value added services and application-level
reporting and traffic management. Available for demonstration now
and commercially available during the first half of 2015.
- VSR-SEGW: The Virtualized IP Security Gateway will be available
for demonstration during the first half of 2015.
- VSR-WLGW: The Virtualized Wireless LAN Gateway will be
available for demonstration during the second half of 2015.
- VSR-BNG: The Virtualized Broadband Network Gateway will be
available for demonstration during the second half of 2015.
Industry Quotes:
"NFV is very important for us in enabling new service
opportunities and efficiencies and we're in the process of
transforming our network to a more flexible architecture," said
Mathieu Bonnin, Responsable
Architecture, Direction Reseau, Axione, an affiliate of Bouygues
Energie. "As part of this transformation we tested Alcatel-Lucent's
Route Reflector application and were very impressed by its
performance. We have measured that the virtual Route Reflectors are
eight times faster than the Route Reflectors currently used in our
network. We look forward to testing more of Alcatel-Lucent's VSR
applications as they continue to roll out in 2015."
Michael Howard, Co-founder and
Principal Analyst, Infonetics Research said: "The telecom industry
has been waiting to see how router vendors will play in the new
reality of an SDN/NFV software focused world. Alcatel-Lucent is the
first major router company we've seen that has clearly defined a
complete hardware-software strategy to deliver routing in this new
era. Carriers will like the fact that the new Virtualized Service
Router software is built on Alcatel-Lucent's long-in-the-field SROS
carrier routing code. We know from our research that a majority of
service providers want to move some edge router functions off of
hardware onto software, and VSR gives them the flexibility to
quickly deploy new services on a new cost basis through a
combination of virtualized and purpose built edge routers."
Michel Combes CEO of Alcatel-Lucent said: "Virtualization is at
the heart of the second chapter of the Shift Plan, which sees us
focused on driving the future of communications through innovation,
transformation and growth. With the announcement of the most
complete portfolio of virtualized IP Edge router functions,
Alcatel-Lucent asserts its technological leadership and creates a
seismic industry-shift. We know that NFV is a key part of how the
router business will evolve and we have leveraged our IP networking
expertise to deliver this extensive software portfolio. Together
with our class-leading hardware router portfolio we are able to
deliver the most comprehensive router-centric offer on the
market."
Basil Alwan, President of
Alcatel-Lucent's IP Routing & Transport business line said:
"There is lots of industry interest in NFV, and for valid reasons.
With this announcement we can offer customers the best of both
worlds; industry leading performance on accelerated hardware
platforms as well as "quick turn-up" solutions running on standard
hardware. This flexibility is key as the choices for which
functions to virtualize and at what time will vary. And in many
cases, both solutions will coexist. With our NFV, SDN and
orchestration product suites we can help customers take advantage
of any system choice on their schedule, and with complete
compatibility."
For the latest updates on Alcatel-Lucent's announcement follow
the company's Technology Symposium Twitter hashtag: #ALUTech14 and
visit the event website for executive presentations and other
corporate news.
Additional Information
- Virtual Service Router website:
http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/solutions/ip-edge-routing
- Blog from Basil Alwan:
http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/blog/2014/virtualization-here-hardware-still-has-its-place
- Tech Symposium website:
http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/technology-symposium-2014
- The Shift Plan:
http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/the-shift-plan
- Virtualization realized. IP Routing optimized brochure:
http://resources.alcatel-lucent.com/asset/182575
- VSR-Route Reflector app note:
http://resources.alcatel-lucent.com/asset/182617
ABOUT ALCATEL-LUCENT (EURONEXT PARIS AND NYSE: ALU)
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ultra-broadband fixed and wireless access to service providers and
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world. Underpinning us in driving the industrial transformation
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well as being named by MIT Technology Review as amongst 2012's Top
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the 2014 Dow Jones Sustainability Indices review, for making global
communications more sustainable, affordable and accessible, all in
pursuit of the Group's mission to realize the potential of a
connected world.
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in 2013, Alcatel-Lucent is listed on the Paris and New
York stock exchanges (Euronext and NYSE: ALU). The company
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