Experience Personal Cloud with OpenTouch and Application Fluent
Network
DANANG, Vietnam, Feb. 21, 2013
/PRNewswire/—After the European Executive Partner Day in Rome,
Alcatel Lucent( http://www.alcatel-lucent.com )
Enterprise (ALUE) has come to Danang, Vietnam on 7 February for
APAC Executive Partner Day. This year’s event
focused on sharing the joint strategic directions and “Move
Forward” for the Common Success with business partners, from
Alcatel Lucent executives and from industry experts Capgemini,
Channel Enablers.
Over 100 Enterprise partner executives gathered from all of
APAC to hear more about ALUE direction for 2013, “How to be an essential player
in the Cloud Era”.
Alcatel-Lucent OpenTouch Suite brings more visual conversations
to mid and large enterprises that enables businesses to make the
experience of the many new faces of conversations available to
customers, partners and employees
The reach of consumer technology into the workplace has changed
the conversation and caused businesses to examine the next steps in
deploying flexible and performance enabling communications tools
that support the day to day routine of employees.
The OpenTouch Suite 1.2 offers more visual collaboration and
mobility experiences with flexible deployment to meet the needs of
today’s businesses.
Alcatel-Lucent OpenTouch Suite 1.2 revolutionizes visual
communications, providing new user experiences. With OpenTouch,
conversations are naturally continuous and persistent over time.
The latest update OpenTouch Suite 1.2 enriches communication
before, during and after the conversation, so that employees can
plan, record, store, share conversations and “socialize” them
afterwards.
“The explosion of applications is changing how we work, lending
to more collaborative and visual conversations both in our personal
and professional lives. As a result, our devices are becoming
remote controls of our lives. The Alcatel-Lucent OpenTouch Suite
and applications are making it possible for enterprises to maximize
this new way of working and reduce costs, while improving the
ability to make changes without difficulty,” said Michel
Emilienoff—Head of Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise.
“The new visual features on OpenTouch go beyond basic video
conferencing to bring in collaboration, before, during and after
the meeting. Its solutions like these that will help Alcatel-Lucent
Enterprise become an essential player in enterprise communications
globally and a brand that sets the standard for the user
experience,” said Jan Zuubier—Head of Global SALUEs & Marketing
of Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise.
The technology of OpenTouch is also driving the shift to the
Personal Cloud, as more customers and Business Partners’ recognize
the benefits of a service based offer:
- OpenTouch is VMware certified enabling virtualization of
all elements of the OpenTouch architecture deployment and helping
create new business models which are more flexible to suit the
needs of mid and large enterprises. The virtualization capabilities
reduce costs while improving the ability to make changes without
headaches. The OpenTouch Suite is hardware agnostic, and deployable
in data centers running VmWare 5.0, ESXi 5.0 or the complete
vSphere solution.
- New pricing of the OpenTouch
Multimedia system software enables existing customers to “taste”
and adopt the new user experience.
“Alcatel Lucent is key cloud enabler from both Opex and Capex
solutions and go-to-market partner perspective in ACE Cloud Business Model: Opex for true XaaS cloud
services from Capgemini and Capex for building enterprise private
cloud solutions and the two solutions can be mixed per customer
needs,” said Dr. HAN Jun—General Manager of
New Technology Business, Capgemini China.
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 Q3’20121,
fastest growing Ethernet LAN vendor in port
shipments2, and
fastest growing vendor in WLAN-Dependent
Access Point revenue3.
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.
ABOUT ALCATEL-LUCENT (EURONEXT
PARIS AND NYSE: ALU)
The long-trusted partner of service providers, enterprises and
governments around the world, Alcatel-Lucent is a leading innovator
in the field of networking and communications technology, products
and services. The company is home to Bell Labs, one of the world’s
foremost research centers, responsible for breakthroughs that have
shaped the networking and communications industry. Alcatel-Lucent
was named one of MIT Technology Review’s 2012
Top 50 list of the “World’s Most Innovative Companies” for
breakthroughs such as lightRadio™, which cuts power consumption and
operating costs on wireless networks while delivering lightning
fast Internet access. Through such innovations, Alcatel-Lucent is
making communications more sustainable, more affordable and more
accessible as we pursue our mission – Realizing the Potential of a
Connected World.
With operations in more than 130 countries and one of the most
experienced global services organizations in the industry,
Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with global reach. The Company
achieved revenues of Euro 15.3 billion in 2011 and is incorporated
in France and headquartered in Paris.
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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”
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