Key trends and new challenges in Enterprise Network

Infrastructure However, new devices and new visual/multimedia collaboration applications such as OpenTouch Suites are putting tremendous pressure on current network infrastructure. While the world is talking about Software Defined Network (SDN) to optimize delivery of real-time multimedia applications over network infrastructure, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise has been winning customers and delivering SDN with the Application Fluent Network (AFN) approach to converged LAN campus and Cloud- ready Datacenter especially in Government and Large Enterprises.
"Customers can embrace Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) and transform Data center with a fraction of the cost they used to pay. All Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise AFN features are available now on entry-level switches instead of just the high-end LAN switches. Alcatel Lucent's customers do not need to pay premium to derive maximum productivity in a converged voice, video and data infrastructure, but this may not be the case for Alcatel Lucent's competitors," said BG Poon -- Vice President of Enterprise Network, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise APAC. "In a converged Voice and Data environment for example, our switch will automatically configure itself when a desktop phone is connected to the network, saving manual and time consuming configuration by the IT administrator. We called this network configuration -- ZERO-TOUCH. Alcatel-Lucent switches has saved our customers at least one million dollar in operational cost over a five-year period with the lowest power consumption and little rack spaces," he added.

"Alcatel-Lucent was the fastest growing Data Center Switching vendor in Q3'2012[1], fastest growing Ethernet LAN vendor in port shipments[2], and fastest growing vendor in WLAN-Dependent Access Point revenue[3]. The worldwide growth we have seen in Q3 in data center and cloud categories indicates that our solutions are important for our customers as they continue to build and expand their networks," said FL Leow -- Senior Vice President of Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise APAC, at the conference.
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Notes:
1. Infonetics Research report "Data Center Network Equipment, Quarterly
Worldwide and Regional Market Share Size and Forecast, 3Q12", issued Dec. 10,
2012
2. Dell'Oro "Ethernet Switch Quarterly Report 3Q12" 3. Dell'Oro "Wireless LAN Quarterly Report 3Q12". SOURCE Alcatel-Lucent.