Alcatel-Lucent CEO Michel Combes Outlines Shift Plan Strategy - Quick Facts

(RTTNews) - Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) said its Chief Executive, Michel Combes, would outline how The Shift Plan, the firm's industrial transformation from telecoms generalist to specialist in IP Networking and Ultra-Broadband Access, would leverage new technologies to accelerate the move to the cloud by service providers.

Speaking at the opening of Alcatel-Lucent's cloud research and development center near Tel Aviv, Combes would explain the role cloud is playing in IP Networking and Ultra-Broadband Access, as well as talk on how these technologies would enable the high performance networks of tomorrow, supporting service providers, webscale companies and large enterprises, to meet consumer and business demands.

Particularly, Combes would talk about how Alcatel-Lucent is leveraging Network Functions Virtualization technology, and how it would help service providers meet the always-connected demands of their customers. NFV enables network services to be deployed on a shared cloud infrastructure instead of dedicated, purpose-built hardware. Further, Combes believes that new technologies such as NFV and Software Defined Networking are to massively change the networking landscape.

Additionally, Alcatel-Lucent is moving major parts of its portfolio to the cloud. As a result of this heavy lifting, Alcatel-Lucent is both creating a path to NFV technology and giving service providers choices on which key network services to deploy to the cloud.

Separately, Alcatel-Lucent is to advance industry adoption of Network Functions Virtualizationm, the consolidation of carrier network functions across distributed industry standard servers, by creating the CloudBand Ecosystem Program, the first open community of service providers, developers and vendors adopting NFV.