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Alcatel-Lucent: Generating revenue from the customer experience

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Alcatel-Lucent’s Ajay Pande and Peter Spencer talk to Telecoms.com about why operators are increasingly interested in customer experience management solutions, and their importance to operators’ bottom lines.

Alcatel-Lucent: Automating operations recovery

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Jeff Griffith, senior VP of Alcatel-Lucent Professional Services, explains how the vendor’s automated operations and recovery platform helps monitor the network for faults as well as initiating recovery options.

Du extends 100G transport network in UAE

Huawei has signed an MoU with Etisalat to help set the foundations for an intensive internship program

Du, one of the two major telcos in the United Arab Emirates, has awarded a contract to Alcatel-Lucent to build the second phase of its high-speed 100G coherent optical transport network throughout the country.

Alca-Lu: “We will have a strong emphasis on broadcast and carrier aggregation, and also VoLTE”

Glenn Booth, Alcatel-Lucent

We speak to Glenn Booth, VP of wireless portfolio & strategy at Alcatel-Lucent, about winning last year’s Broadband InfoVision Award for ‘Best Broadband Access – Fixed’ for its lightRadio solutions portfolio.

Alcatel-Lucent passes 1 mil. shipments of VDSL vectoring tech

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Paris-based telecoms equipment vendor Alcatel-Lucent has passed the milestone of one million line shipments of its VDSL2 vectoring technology, which boosts broadband speeds to near-fibre levels by eliminating line noise between multiple copper lines.

Telefónica trials 100Gbps, 200Gbps and 400Gbps data transmissions over Spanish network

Telefónica has completed a field trial of “flexible optical networking” technology, to more than double’s existing fibre capacity

Spanish operator group Telefónica has completed a field trial of “flexible optical networking” technology, that it hopes could more than double its existing fibre capacity.

Getting to Nirvana

Marcus Weldon, CTO, Alcatel-Lucent

In the first of our series of features on Software Defined Networking, Marcus Weldon, CTO at Alcatel Lucent and Bell Labs, gives Telecoms.com his take on the buzzword of the moment.

KPN asks Alca-Lu to transform fixed network

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Alcatel-Lucent has won a five-year managed services agreement with Dutch telco KPN to transform the latter’s fixed network in the Netherlands, including migrating its existing voice and transport networks to new technology.

After sales, service

A while ago I was told by an executive from one of the big network equipment vendors that he had seen proof that a Chinese competitor was spoofing network performance in a competitive trial to try and win business. One conclusion can be drawn from this accusation, valid or not: Things are getting desperate in the infrastructure supply sector. Falsifying performance data would be a drastic act, after all—but then so would slandering the opposition.

du migrates to single IP network to boost convergence

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UAE telco du has tapped Alcatel-Lucent for IP-routing technology to consolidate all its telecoms services onto a single network, with big gains in speed and performance expected, along with simplified network operation.

Alca-Lu to build new super-fast broadband network in Tunisia

ZTE has signed an extension to its agreement with CBD

Tunisiana, the largest provider of wireless communication services in the north African country of Tunisia, has awarded a four-year contract to build, manage and maintain a high-speed wireline broadband network to Paris-headquartered equipment vendor Alcatel-Lucent.

NSN poaches ALU’s Vodafone account manager

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Alcatel Lucent’s vice president for the global Vodafone account has jumped ship to Nokia Siemens Networks, where he will perform the same function. In an internal memo to senior management seen by Telecoms.com, NSN’s head of European customer operations René Svendsen-Tune announced that Wolfgang Hackenberg had joined the firm to assume control of the Vodafone account, which has been under interim management since the middle of the year.

Lay your bets – Prediction #4

Bengt Nordstrom, founder of industry consultancy NorthStream, shares a series of predictions for the mobile industry in 2013. In this fourth instalment he says that the managed services market will consolidate next year, down to a three-player market, as competition intensifies.

BT adds big data analytics to its toolkit

The new trials will add flexibility to BT's FTTP rollout

UK telco BT has chosen Alcatel-Lucent to strengthen its customer service capabilities by using a new set of data collection and management solutions in its broadband and IPTV support departments.

Alca-Lu ships over 1mil GPON ports

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Alcatel-Lucent may be in the middle of an onerous cost-cutting programme amid continued quarterly losses, but its network equipment division continues to perform well: the company has revealed that it sold over 1mn GPON ports in the second quarter of this year, driven by rapid expansion of its business in China and the US.

Korea’s SK Broadband orders 100G fibre network

SK Broadband is deploying 100G technology in Seoul

Paris-based telecoms equipment vendor Alcatel-Lucent has won an order for its 100G fibre optic technology from Korean service provider SK Broadband, as part of efforts to deliver a wider variety of consumer and business broadband services in the country.

Broadband Infovision Awards: Best Broadband Access Award (Wireless)

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With just five weeks to go until the winners of this year’s Broadband InfoVision Awards are announced, we preview the shortlisted entries for the category Best Broadband Access (Wireless).

Alcatel-Lucent to axe 5,000 jobs

Alcatel-Lucent to cut 5,000 jobs as part of cost reduction programme

Network infrastructure vendor Alcatel-Lucent plans to cut 5,000 jobs as part of a cost reduction process. The firm is eyeing cost savings of €1.25bn after posting a net loss of €254m in its 2Q12 earnings result. The vendor has already committed to cutting €500m costs but has now launched a Performance Program in a hope to bring total savings to €1.25 billion by the end of 2013.

Telstar and the Bell System’s Forgotten Anniversary

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If you watched Wimbledon’s epic showdown live on television, then you have Telstar to thank. Launched 50 years ago, the Telstar-1 satellite, brainchild of Bell Labs, made international live broadcasts possible. On July 10, 1962, the age of global communications truly began.

Telkom SA to expand super-fast broadband across South Africa

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South Africa’s Telkom SA is to dramatically expand the availability of super-fast broadband services across the country, as part of its strategic ‘Network Transformation Initiative’.

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