With an eye to rich services, reduced complexity and higher profits for service providers catering to their enterprise customers, Lucent Technologies Inc. has rolled out five new high performance, attractively priced IP services products for virtual private networks and integrated voice and data.
The solution is part of a series of solutions the Murray Hill, N.J.-based equipment maker will announce as part of its Flexent OneBits IP core architecture, said the company.
This architecture caters to GPRS/EDGE, TDMA GPRS, CDMA IS-95, cdma2000, UMTS and GSM/GPRS air interface technologies in an agnostic way.
So, mobile commerce, location-based services, virtual mobile office and mobile video conferencing can be provided across the technologies, said Lucent.
The products include the Access Point 300, VPN Firewall Brick 20 and 1000 and SuperPipe 170 and 175.
“This is another critical expansion of our IP services portfolio,” said Fred Kemmerer, vice president and general manager for Lucent interworking systems’ IP services group. “Lucent is the only company that can help service providers offer their customers a full range of revenue-generating IP services solutions through their choice of premises-based or network-based multiservice platforms.”
The access Point 300 provides service provider class-routing capabilities with access options for ISDN, dual T1/E1 and MSSI, with performance at 50Mbps for IP forwarding and up to 500 IPSec tunnels. The SuperPipe 170 and 175 target telecommuters and small office and home office customers who need integrated IP voice and data services solutions. The VPN Firewall Brick 20 and 1000 are aimed at small office and home office customers with three 10/100 Mbps Ethernet ports, 3Mbps 3-DES performance, and up to 50 VPN tunnels.
Lucent, which sees the path to third-generation services as a natural network evolution, identifies its new solutions as enhancing mobile VPNs, mobile business Internet access, wholesale wireless subscriber management, managed bandwidth services, multi-tenant Internet access and wireless access outsourcing.
“Service providers need the full breadth of Lucent’s IP services solutions-including fully integrated quality of service, advanced security, VPN and IP routing-to generate new revenue and reduce their capital expenditures right away,” said Michael Howard, principal analyst and co-founder of Infonetics Research, a San Jose, Calif.-based market research and consulting firm.
Based on its study, Infonetics says 10 percent of large, medium and small businesses in the United States and Canada plan to use on-net VPN services and 90 percent plan to use CPE devices by 2003.
Lucent says it has built a unified management software platform to combine its IP services portfolio to imbue its IP networks with intelligence.
