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• Verizon looks to Alcatel's new core router for capacity, efficiency

  By Stephen Lawson | 23 May, 2012 07:45

  Verizon Communications on Tuesday became the first service provider to say it will use Alcatel-Lucent's upcoming 7950 XRS core routing system, which will bring the French-American equipment vendor into the carrier core routing business for the first time in about a decade.

• 10 years later, Alcatel-Lucent revisits Cisco and Juniper in the core

  By Jim Duffy | 23 May, 2012 03:33

  If at first you don’t succeed…

• Alcatel-Lucent offers managed service to improve mobile network performance

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 22 May, 2012 02:35

  Mobile operators that want help keeping their subscribers happy can get it through a new managed service from Alcatel-Lucent, the company said on Monday.

• Does standardized interoperability in data center fabrics matter?

  By Jim Duffy | 21 May, 2012 20:32

  Despite interoperability trials and demonstrations involving alternative data center fabric standards, a non-standard fabric technology is said by proponents to be at the front of the pack.

• 10 top reasons for integrating Wi-Fi radios in small cellular cells

  By Ajay Kumar Gupta, team lead at Wesley Clover Communications Solutions | 16 May, 2012 00:47

  With the growing demand for mobile data, cellular service operators are increasingly turning to small cells -- picocells, microcells, metrocells and femtocells -- to deal with the capacity crunch in dense urban areas and to add coverage in areas with low or zero cellular signal levels, such as indoors and in remote rural locations.

• Largest Illinois healthcare system uproots Cisco to build $40M private cloud

  By Jim Duffy | 12 May, 2012 00:30

  LAS VEGAS -- A healthcare network in Illinois is investing $40 million in Alcatel-Lucent switches to consolidate data centers into a private cloud.

• Telstra switches on network intelligence for Next IP

  By Spandas Lui | 10 May, 2012 15:25

  Telstra has launched the first phase of its intelligent reporting service on its Next IP network.

• Cisco nemesis Huawei to demo 96-port 100G Ethernet switch

  By Jim Duffy | 08 May, 2012 05:39

  Huawei, Cisco's toughest competitor in networking, will debut its entry into enterprise data center switching at this week's Interop 2012 conference in Las Vegas.

• Alcatel-Lucent brings 40G to the core

  By Jim Duffy | 07 May, 2012 20:33

  Alcatel-Lucent this week at Interop will flesh out its data center fabric vision with 40G Ethernet and higher-density 10G Ethernet capabilities on its core switches, as well as enhanced software for its top-of-rack and core switches.

• Alcatel-Lucent's revenue takes a hit in Q1

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 26 April, 2012 20:25

  Telecommunication equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent reported an operating loss for the first quarter, as revenue fell 12.3 percent year-on-year. Just like its competitors, the company puts some of the blame on the dire economic situation in Europe.

• InterDigital software will help make cell vs. Wi-Fi choices on phones

  By Stephen Lawson | 25 April, 2012 07:23

  Having both cellular and Wi-Fi available for mobile data may be the best of all possible worlds, but software that helps your phone make the right choice between them is even better, according to InterDigital.

• Alcatel-Lucent lets iPads go from IM to voice and video without hanging up

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 27 March, 2012 04:34

  Alcatel-Lucent's OpenTouch Conversation software will allow enterprise users to switch among different ways of communicating -- including instant messaging, voice calls and video conferencing -- without interrupting their conversations. The software will first be available on Apple's iPad, the company said on Monday.

• Cisco offers virtualized video surveillance

  By Ellen Messmer | 21 March, 2012 23:50

  Cisco today announced a virtualized version of its Video Surveillance software for use on its Unified Computing System platform for enterprise- or government-operated video-camera deployments.

• 7 ways Alcatel-Lucent hopes to change the conversation

  By Jim Duffy | 21 March, 2012 06:42

  A favorite marketing tagline for Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise is "Change the Conversation."

• LTE will help make in-flight data access cheaper, vendors say

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 16 March, 2012 04:00

  Deutsche Telekom, Alcatel-Lucent and Airbus have tested data communication between an aircraft and the ground, using LTE, which helps make in-flight data access cheaper, the three companies said on Thursday.