Alcatel-Lucent has announced a new platform, the 7210 Service Access Switch, which creates new revenue opportunities for service providers. The family of next generation, small footprint customer edge devices extends Carrier Ethernet to the enterprise site, giving enterprises richer service and application offerings, supported by guaranteed quality of service (QoS) that extends to the customer site.
Enterprises globally have long deployed Ethernet for its scale and cost benefits, but have demanded more reliability and quality of service to support mission-critical applications – which is possible with the combination of MPLS and Ethernet in the Alcatel-Lucent portfolio. With the addition of the 7210 Service Access Switch, service providers have a powerful end-to-end portfolio to address the transition to Carrier Ethernet from private line – a market which was valued at approximately $40 billion worldwide in 2008 according to analyst firm IDC*. By deploying the Alcatel-Lucent portfolio, operators can offer enterprises higher bandwidth services, with faster time-to-market and reduced IT costs, helping operators to better address the Carrier Ethernet Services market which is set to grow 22% per year and be worth $12Bn by 2012 according to IDC*.
Alcatel-Lucent has played a pivotal role in the evolution of Carrier Ethernet, and in understanding the distinct network requirements of service providers based on their business and market objectives. In response Alcatel-Lucent has developed its Carrier Ethernet framework, a three-tiered structure that responds to a wide variety of operators, from wholesale to retail, from MSOs to competitive carriers and incumbents.
"IDC believes this is a good product release for Alcatel-Lucent," wrote IDC analyst Eve Griliches, in a February 2009 report entitled Alcatel-Lucent Summons the Next Phase of Carrier Ethernet Evolution. "The Carrier Ethernet framework helps define the Carrier Ethernet challenges going forward, shows how they will address them in this next year, and delivers a new product in a space that is emerging on a timely basis. We believe that other vendors will begin to deliver products similar to this but may or may not have the end-to-end SLA management."
Read the report: Alcatel-Lucent Summons the Next Phase of Carrier Ethernet Evolution
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The transport layer helps reduce the cost of building and operating the network to carry high volumes of business and consumer traffic, enabling the migration from legacy circuit switching to Carrier Ethernet-based packet transport
The services layer helps expand the reach and scale of consumer and business services, leveraging the Carrier Ethernet network for faster time to market and simplified management. This layer is boosted by the addition of the 7210 Service Access Switch
The application enablement layer addresses operators’ desire to leverage their network assets to develop new sources of revenue. Using this layer, Alcatel-Lucent can help service providers to optimize specific applications such as IPTV over their networks and tap into additional revenue opportunities such as advertising
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