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Asia
Pacific Watch
May
30, 2003
Juniper, Lucent ally to deliver unified solutions
HONG
KONG -- Juniper Networks Inc. and Lucent Technologies
recently announced a partnership to deliver unified
solutions dedicated to helping service providers evolve
today's networks to tomorrow's full-service IP infrastructure.
Leveraging the companies' combined expertise in networking,
this unique partnership delivers market-ready solutions
through a strong channel relationship. In addition,
the companies are collaborating on joint development
to enable service providers to transform their networks
smoothly and profitably.
The
two companies are introducing a set of unified solutions
for deploying core, data, broadband and metro optical
networks that support a range of revenue-generating
services. Lucent Navis integrated network management
software will improve efficiencies and reduce operating
costs. Focused on equipment market segments that combined
will grow from an estimated $8.5 billion dollars in
2003 to $12.2 billion in 2005, these solutions will
help service providers maximise the return on their
existing infrastructure, optimise future network investments
and simplify the service delivery process.
Leveraging
its multiprotocol (TDM, FR/ATM, IP/MPLS) and multivendor
capabilities, Lucent Worldwide Services (LWS) will support
each one of the solutions with network design, deployment
and maintenance services to increase speed-to-market
and reduce operational costs for service providers.
Lucent's services organization will integrate the solutions
to make them easier and faster for service providers
to deploy.
Paul
Lacouture, president of Network Services for Verizon
Communications, said: "This partnership makes sense
to us and gives us a path to leverage our embedded base
of data networks. We are very interested in how quickly
they can meet the challenge of provisioning and managing
new IP-based services end-to-end across our networks."
Pat
Russo, chairman and CEO of Lucent Technologies, added:
"We will provide our customers with a clear blueprint
for an intelligent network evolution that protects today's
service revenue streams, while laying a foundation for
capturing revenue from tomorrow's next-generation broadband,
optical Ethernet and IP services. This is a partnership
that works for our customers because of the combination
of our strengths."
Scott
Kriens, CEO of Juniper Networks, noted: "Service
providers looking to transform to more cost-optimised
networks need companies that excel in providing leading
voice, frame relay/ATM and optical networking solutions,
as well as companies that excel at providing full service
IP networking solutions. This partnership combines those
capabilities now. A significant differentiator for our
partnership is Lucent's strength as a network integrator.
Together, we will have a powerful capability to provide
customers with integrated, next-generation solutions
that leverage their existing investment, an integrated
network solutions roadmap for the future, and a single
point of contact for network services providing design,
implementation and on-going customer support."
Janet
Davidson, president of Lucent's Integrated Network Solutions
group, said: "These unified solutions add value
to the systems and software already deployed in service
provider networks by increasing network scalability,
manageability, and ease of migration to new architectures.
Our joint development work will ensure that our unified
solutions will keep pace with changing customer needs
and market opportunities."
The
unified solutions include:
- IP
VPN (available now) -- a cost-effective solution based
on existing products that enables service providers
to offer a full range of VPN services over a common
IP/MPLS core network.
- Multiservice
MPLS core (available Q1 2004) -- a cost-effective
solution to grow ATM/Frame Relay revenues and add
IP services onto a converged IP/MPLS core.
- IP
Centrex (available now) -- a solution that enables
service providers to deliver business-quality IP Centrex
services to thousands of enterprises over a flexible,
cost-effective, packet-based network.
- Enhanced
DSL (available now) -- a scalable, efficient, enhanced
services xDSL solution that will enable service providers
to address mass-market xDSL service rollout.
- Optical
edge (under joint development) -- a solution designed
to help expand the enterprise market for high-value
Ethernet services over existing service provider networks.
Contact:
Juniper Networks
Tel: 852-2587-6863
Email: ringlis@juniper.net
Web: www.juniper.net
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