- New Bell Labs facility to be co-located with
Alcatel-Lucent's Nuage Networks and IP routing businesses will work
on exploring new approaches to cloud and software defined
networking
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California,
Sept. 8, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --
Alcatel-Lucent's (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) Bell Labs is to
open a new 'antenna' office in the heart of US technological
innovation – Silicon Valley. A team of Bell
Labs researchers will be co-located at Alcatel-Lucent's site
in Mountain View and will conduct
focused, globally-orientated research aimed at evolving networks to
deliver new cloud-based applications and services.
In the past networks have been designed only to deliver specific
and discreet services like voice and data. In the emerging
cloud-based services era, networks have to be designed and
optimized for both the delivery of traditional offerings but also
for new as-yet-unknown services. SDN will play a critical role in
the way networks of the future are built.
Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Labs
maintains a leading role in research and innovation with a focus on
how networks should evolve based on the changing behaviors and
demands of the end user. Research at 'antenna' locations such as
that in Silicon Valley contributes to this overall objective by
centering on one major industry issue. These smaller,
highly-specialized locations foster a more nimble 'start-up' like
environment to allow researchers to actively engage with
Alcatel-Lucent's businesses, other Bell
Labs researchers and external stakeholders such as
enterprises, universities and other research organizations.
The Silicon Valley center will be the third Bell Labs antenna office to open this year,
following the opening of the Cambridge video facility in the UK in
July, and the Bell Labs virtualization research facility in
Israel which opened in May.
The antenna will be led by Bell Labs Consulting SDN/NFV group
leader Sanjay Kamat who, in his
previous role, was responsible for strategy and operations of the
Bell Labs Advisory Services practice focused on techno-economic
issues related to emerging technologies. He has a PhD in Computer
Science from Texas A&M University
and MBA from Columbia University.
Marcus Weldon, President of
Bell Labs & CTO
Alcatel-Lucent said: "We know that the full impact of cloud
computing will radically change not only our industry but also the
way we live, work and communicate. As we add this third antenna
location to our existing Bell Labs
network we expect to tap both the innovative spirit of the rich
west coast-based technology community as well as the wealth of
real-world knowledge from Alcatel-Lucent's successful IP Routing
business and its SDN start-up, Nuage Networks, to significantly
change the course of the future."
Bell Labs continues to conduct
innovative and game-changing research around the big issues
affecting the ICT industry. Using its wide-reaching expertise and
collaborating with the global innovation community (both inside and
outside of Bell Labs), Bell Labs is focused on finding solutions that
offer a 10x (or more) improvement for the industry. These solutions
will then be used to create cross-discipline 'Future X' initiatives
that will shape the future communications landscape. To accelerate
innovation in this field, the Bell Labs Prize was launched in June.
The first winner will be announced in December of 2014. This prize
gives any researcher, in a participating country around the globe,
the chance to introduce their innovative idea to the world and
collaborate with Bell Labs
researchers.
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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