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.

                                                                                                                           

Completing the wonderful features and useful products of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) from Alcatel Lucent

Completing the wonderful features and useful products of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) from Alcatel Lucent

This technology appeals especially to mobile networks as it enhances the mobile network backbone and increases the functions and ability on one network, decreasing the Total cost of Operation (TCO) but Alcatel Lucent announced that mobile network operators can increase their investments on all IP networks through using the LTE. This can be achieved through threse products announced by Alcatel Lucent using the capabilities of Intel architecture to deliver the most usage of IP\MPLS features:

- Virtualized Radio Access Networks (RAN):this product enables mobile operators to use the LTE and LTE advanced in wireless networks to carry and transmit the secure mobile data through it easily and this helps in decreasing the TCO.

-High-performance Packet Processing for advanced IP/MPLS platforms and functions

The Alcatel Lucent team used the Intel architecture and put on it the IP\MPLS platform for the full usage of this High Performance Packet Processing.

This leads us that Alcatel Lucent is the leader in these on-cloud products and the first IP partner to enhance the whole VoIP technology and specially this part of virtualization.  

-Wonderful release from Alcatel Lucent: Mobile networks virtualization (NFV)

Personally I consider Alcatel Lucent as the leadership company in VoIP in the market technology, I have read about this new software release from Alcatel Lucent and admired it is creative idea as the theme in itself leverages the virtualization concept in the VoIP technology.

Alcatel Lucent is the good and trusted partner for mobile network telecoms as it introduces the right Network Function Virtualization (NFV).

The widening in mobile services and systematic new versions, increases the dynamic challenges and opportunities in market and puts more burdens on mobile services companies to progress and keep in the race of continuous progress.

Features and benefits from this new software released by Alcatel Lucent (NFV) are:

-Creation of flexible network environment that supports more rapid service for innovation and expansion.

-Decreasing the business\ROI issues when introducing new services in the network.

-Scale and utilize the current network resources and evaluate the needed costs without any customer's experience compromising due to recorded customer previous attitude on the network.

-Acquiring and full benefit of the virtualization technology.

What is Software Defined Network (SDN)?

It is a technology used to decoupling between networks , controlling and forwarding sections in networks. Plus it is used too to apply programmatic interfaces.

Major amalgamation and usage for this technology is in data centers.  

VoIP technology enhances the efficiency of packet switching networks

Packet switching is a tool used to transmit data across networks and enhance the sharing of data in one place. Using VoIP with   packet switching networking increases the benefits of this technology due to VoIP benefits that saves call costs as to make calls only need an Internet connection and a PC to PC or PC to phone.

Secondly, with VoIP packet switching you can make calls and access easily anywhere, anytime all what you need is Internet broadband.

Network threats and how to face them?

There are huge percentage increase in network security threats. Besides, the wideness in the use of multi- access devices such as laptops,  smart phones and tablets, there are  many opportunities for a business's  corporate network to be compromised resulting in business downtime and  potential loss of money.

Content Filter Solutions for Business:

There are increasing network threats coming from internal sources because employees can unknowingly browse websites that contain dangerous software like Trojan horses, spy wares or worms that could infect the corporate network. 

Finding ways to prevent internal users from surfing dangerous websites is therefore an important issue for businesses. Content Filter services can be used to screen and determine the web access to pages that are related to the business fields and exclude access to sites that have malicious software included in.

A good Content Filter solution can help business:

-  Minimize exposure to malicious sites and

-  Improving employee productivity