Alcatel-Lucent is set to enter the $4bn-a-year market for Internet core routers with technologies that provide enhanced capacity and connectivity, improved energy consumption and dramatically lower costs for the world’s communication networks. The Company has unveiled products that modernize the global backbone of the Internet to deal with the new era of video and cloud-based services.
Ben Verwaayen, Chief Executive, Alcatel-Lucent, said, “The new digital economy demands constant and rapid evolution of the networks that manage and deliver data traffic, connecting the hand of consumers with their content and applications in the cloud. Our market entry is the data equivalent of revolutionizing telephone exchanges. It will enable our customers to optimize the delivery of Internet video, gaming, photo sharing and data-hungry business applications. The new technologies had been pioneered by the company’s fast-growing IP division, which has already secured more than 25 percent of the market for service provider ‘edge routers’ – the systems that network operators deploy to manage broadband connections and service quality for residential and business users.”
Basil Alwan, President, Internet Protocol division said, “For over a decade we have invested in advanced silicon and software technology, most recently demonstrated by our breakthrough network processor chipset, FP3, announced in June 2011. Now we are applying this technology to the largest nodes in the Internet, core routers. Our 7950 XRS core router systems sit at the massive intersections of the Internet, where billions of individual messages are directed to the correct destinations every second. Our technology will provide more capacity and more flexible traffic management with reduced energy consumption, helping to ensure better performance from global broadband networks.”
