Interested article in Alcatel Lucent : Connected cars to the Internet, Is it going to replace smart phones?

It’s a question that service providers want to solve. What would the world be like without your smart phone beside you for 24 hours? What if instead, your own car was able to not only communicate with you, but the world around it.  Machina Research predicts that there will be 1.8 billion machine-to-machine (M2M) vehicle connections that can do just that. This will involve 700 million connected cars and 1.1 billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices that will interpret real-time information and bring them to you. The platform will provide services such as real-time traffic navigation, Pay As You Drive (PAYD) insurance, parking services. In fact, the report predicts that 90% of new cars will feature such a platform by 2020, growing from less than 10% today.

Today’s primary decisions in making car purchases are pricing and gas mileage, without a doubt. However, when the M2M players and service providers join forces to bring connected cars to end users, they will have to realize the challenges of bringing M2M to the masses. These challenges include simplifying the use of technology and creating an experience where they consistently feel connected to their everyday lives. There will be more to purchasing decisions than pricing and gas mileage – the means of having voice over LTE (VoLTE), push notifications, customer self-support, and mobile data will be major players in the decision. All of the services of the connected car I mentioned have two important elements: they further connect us to our everyday lives and enhance the customer experience. This enables us to have our cars become our smart phones. Just imagine, making payments right from your car, having your car find the best available parking spots and not having to worry about the maintenance of your car as there are automatic vehicle system checks, firmware updates and data management services. What else could you ask for? 

Open Touch Conference application from Alcatel Lucent

It is an audio conferencing and screen sharing application designed to eliminate the frustrations of traditional conference calls allowing employees to set up and attend multi-user voice calls simply  in order to hold better, more productive meetings. Besides, it allows users to just click the invitation link, type in a phone number and get an instant callback connecting them to the conference bridge, on whatever number or device they prefer. The easy-to-understand user interface is intuitive. This application makes rich forms of collaboration like screen sharing obvious and accessible. So instead of needing help from IT support, in one click, workers can share their desktops with each other independently. 

Cisco 1001 X ASR router gives High-Performance WAN Aggregation

It  is a 1-rack-unit (1RU) platform targeted towards the low to medium Enterprise and Managed Service Provider use cases. Its compact form factor has a built-in Route Processor.

Advantages and capabilities:

-High-performance security for crypto, firewall, and Network Address Translation (NAT).

-Robust deep packet inspection performance at high throughputs for Cisco Application, Visibility, and Control.

 -The ASR 1001-X Router provides Data Center Interconnect (DCI) Services to       support Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV), Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN), Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP) and Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS).

 -Route reflector to increase network scaling

 -Rich, feature-scalable Cisco Unified Border Element (CUBE) services for the enterprise

Mi Voice from Mitel offers an effective complete range of unified communication platforms

Mi Voice platforms are flexible and designed to  range from modular on-premise solutions to a single, cloud-ready software stream that supports a package of deployment models. Besides, Mitel UC is addressed for both small and large businesses needs via two applications Mi Voice Office and Mi Voice Business.

Mitel Unified Communication solutions advantages:

-Simplicity to manage and deploy

-Improves business and employee productivity

-Adapt with your existing infrastructure

-Flexibility and future proof

MiCloud solution from Mitel company is a very comprehensive program used to deliver its core product in the cloud

These solutions are a perfect fit for all organizations—from the SMB to large enterprises as well as service providers:

Increasingly, large organizations are delivering business and communications technology to their employees via public and private networks from the cloud. Smaller organizations are also taking the trend by purchasing cloud-based offerings from service providers.

Whether for on premises or on cloud, the benefits of the cloud are the same: economies of scale, increasing flexibility and the capability of easier access to ongoing technology advances and greater productivity.

Cisco Small Business 500 Series Wireless Access Points gives high security and high performance

Easy-to-deploy these access points give 802.11n wireless connectivity with a dual concurrent radio or a selectable single radio. So that your small business can manage access guests without controller easily high-capacity WLAN that are highly secure and reliable without a controller.

Nuage Networks from Alcatel Lucent is useful for all companies

It is based on (SDN) Software defined networking since 2013 as many vendors are speaking about their SDN plans for most companies.

One company has consistently delivered working SDN products and solutions with a strong commitment to advancing open and multi-vendor SDN:this company is Alcatel Lucent.And from the Alcatel Lucent official site, the Nuage Networks Virtualized Services Platform (VSP), lays the foundation for a dynamically controlled cloud network with a powerful, multi-handled policy and service engine backed by analytic. When VSP is combined with the Nuage Networks 7850 Virtualized Services Gateway (VSG), CIOs can establish policies to be instantiated and enforced across all of the company’s assets, within and across private and shared data center facilities, regardless of whether the servers or appliances are virtualized.