PARIS, April 16, 2014 /PRNewswire/
-- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) and
Elisa, Finland's leading provider
of mobile and fixed broadband services, today announced a
significant network upgrade that will give Elisa the
ultra-broadband capacity needed to meet the demands of
next-generation bandwidth-hungry services and applications.
Finland has one of the highest
mobile penetration rates and customer usages in the world.
Deploying the industry's most advanced end-to-end IP/MPLS
network solution, including Alcatel-Lucent's class-leading core
router, will provide a highly scalable and agile network
architecture allowing Elisa to continuously improve the customer
experience both inside and outside the home or enterprise by
offering significantly better performance. Enhancements include
smoother video downloads, improved service redundancy for increased
reliability and greater responsiveness as well as the ability to
offer new and more personalized services.
Key Facts:
- Elisa's new network supports the explosive growth in mobile
broadband and offers a convergence of fixed and mobile services to
both business and private customers
- Alcatel-Lucent technology being deployed includes: 7950
eXtensible Routing System (XRS) core router, 7750 Service Router
(SR) , 7210 Service Access Switch (SAS) family for aggregation,
5620 Service Aware Manager (SAM) for management and a service
portal for provisioning
- Alcatel-Lucent will also be supplying installation and
commissioning, lifecycle program management, operations support and
consulting and will manage a seamless migration of network elements
and services from its global Migration Operations Centre
Quotes:
Timo Katajisto, Executive Vice President of Elisa said:
"Finns use the most mobile data per capita in the EU, which
requires us very high standards for being able to fulfill all
future needs our customers have. The world of our customers
will become even more digital as data centers evolve into cloud
services and the use of IPTV services continues increasing.
Upgrading our core network to the new generation IP/MPLS network
will ensure enough capacity and speed for our customers also in the
future"
Luis Martinez Amago, President
Europe, Middle East and
Africa of Alcatel-Lucent said:
"Under The Shift Plan, Alcatel-Lucent's repositioning as a
specialist in IP, cloud and ultra-broadband access technologies is
enabling the company to support operators like Elisa in addressing
their operational challenges. We are providing Elisa with a highly
scalable and agile IP/MPLS network architecture. Second, we are
empowering Elisa with the safest and strongest migration capability
through our Migrations Operations Centre."
Additional Resources:
- Product web site: http://bit.ly/12MByki
- Photos: Alcatel-Lucent 7950 XRS family:
http://bit.ly/Z3c4ib
- General ALU Flickr link:
http://bit.ly/Z3cKEg
- Blog: Alcatel-Lucent's New Core Router: off to a big start
http://bit.ly/Vnibkj
About Elisa:
Elisa is a telecommunications, ICT and online service company
serving 2.3 million consumer, corporate and public administration
organisation customers. Elisa provides services for communication
and entertainment, and tools for improving operating methods and
productivity of organisations. In Finland Elisa is the market leader in mobile
subscriptions and fixed broadband subscriptions. Cooperation with
Vodafone and Telenor enables international use of services. Elisa
is listed on NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Large Cap with over 200 000
shareholders. Elisa's revenue in 2013 was 1.55 billion euros and it employed 4,200 people.
www.elisa.com
Elisa press contact:
Corporate Communications, +358 50 305 1605,
communications@elisa.fi
About Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE:
ALU)
We are at the forefront of global
communications, providing products and innovations in IP and cloud
networking, as well as ultra-broadband fixed and wireless access to
service providers and their customers, and to enterprises and
institutions throughout the world. Underpinning us in driving the
industrial transformation from voice telephony to high-speed
digital delivery of data, video and information is Bell Labs, an integral part of the Group and one
of the world's foremost technology research institutes, responsible
for countless breakthroughs that have shaped the networking and
communications industry. Our innovations have resulted in our Group
being recognized by Thomson Reuters as a Top 100 Global Innovator,
as well as being named by MIT Technology Review as amongst 2012's
Top 50 "World's Most Innovative Companies". We have also been
recognized for innovation in sustainability, being named Industry
Group Leader in the Technology Hardware & Equipment sector in
the 2013 Dow Jones Sustainability Indices review, for making global
communications more sustainable, affordable and accessible, all in
pursuit of the Group's mission to realize the potential of a
connected world.
With revenues of Euro 14.4
billion in 2013, Alcatel-Lucent is listed on the
Paris and New York stock exchanges (Euronext and NYSE:
ALU). The company is incorporated in France and headquartered in Paris.
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