-- Alcatel-Lucent is leading the market with strategies and
products to address the needs of both fulfillment and assurance
within its Motive Dynamic Operations portfolio solution
offerings
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California,
Jan. 28, 2015 /PRNewswire/
-- Based on its independent analysis of the service assurance
market, Stratecast | Frost & Sullivan recognizes Alcatel-Lucent
(Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) with the Stratecast 2014 Global
Visionary Innovation Leadership Award for Operations &
Monetization Evolution.
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In acknowledging its leadership in this field, Stratecast |
Frost & Sullivan has cited Alcatel-Lucent's work with
Telefonica to deploy a new global OSS architecture to transform
worldwide operations using a streamlined, automated process. This
project led to the development and introduction of the
Alcatel-Lucent Motive Dynamic Operations Portfolio in June 2014, which was first to address the unique
operational requirements of cloud networks.
Currently, the numerous O&M solutions that Tier 1
communications service providers (CSPs) have deployed are siloed by
nature in terms of network technology and business process support.
Many use proprietary management systems and require unique adapters
and interfaces to communicate. The integration issues inherent in
these systems have made it challenging to streamline the change
management process.
"Alcatel-Lucent's integrated dynamic service assurance OSS
platform will enable Telefonica to implement best practices and
processes in operations," said Tim
McElligott, senior consulting analyst at Stratecast. "It
also compelled Alcatel-Lucent to reconsider its software
architecture approach to the market, resulting in the creation of a
new portfolio built to simultaneously address the requirements for
IP-, NFV- and SDN-driven networks. Overall, the project now meets
Telefonica's longstanding need for change management, automation,
and optimized operations."
A key design change in Alcatel-Lucent's new operations software
model is the move away from inflexible embedded processes. The new
model provides an automated framework for describing the ways in
which physical and virtual networks should behave, offering a
unified view across the network as operators begin to implement NFV
technologies. This new service model is more in line with the
cloud/SDN approach demonstrated by companies such as Google that
fosters abstraction, automation and actionable analytics.
"Alcatel-Lucent has aligned its vision with Telefonica's desire
for a unified assurance model," McElligott noted. "Its portfolio
relies on an open-source, Web-scale, and big-data software
architecture to run more progressively than legacy OSS solutions
and tackle the nuances of high-volume cloud services."
Furthermore, the Alcatel-Lucent solution improves the efficiency
of operations service assurance processes with a 25 percent direct
cost reduction through automatic filtering. It can automatically
process and reduce over 200 million alarms per month to less than
82,000 trouble tickets and solve nearly 25 percent of them.
"This award recognizes the outstanding teamwork and
collaboration between Telefonica and the Alcatel-Lucent teams,"
said Arun Kohli, head of
Alcatel-Lucent's Operations Support Systems business. "Both
companies worked tirelessly to eliminate many of today's manual and
labor-intensive OSS challenges to introduce a more streamlined,
integrated and automated approach to service assurance management.
This enables Telefonica to better realize the full potential of its
all-IP network and the greater agility required for operating a
network in the cloud."
Each year, Stratecast | Frost & Sullivan presents this award
to the company that has demonstrated the ability to leverage global
Mega Trends and integrate the vision into processes to achieve
strategic excellence. The award recognizes the efficacy of the
recipient's innovative process and the impact it has on business
and society at large.
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