CHICAGO—Lucent Technologies Inc. kicked off the Globalcomm trade show with an early morning press conference to introduce its new next-generation network architecture called “Acuity.”
Speaking to a group of analysts and media, Lucent Chief Marketing Officer John Giere explained that Acuity delivers high-bandwidth Internet Protocol-based services like voice, data and video to business, residential and wireless subscribers by flattening the network, or taking IP end-to-end asymmetrically.
Giere said Acuity is a service-aware network architecture that dynamically adjusts bandwidth and quality-of-service parameters simultaneously, managing network resources to provide an optimum quality-of-experience, or QoE, for services such as Voice over IP, video conferencing, Ethernet access, high-definition video/IPTV and multi-party video gaming.
Lucent’s John Leonard, vice president of marketing and offer management for the company’s Network Solutions Group, pointed out that Acuity enables operators to deliver profitable 3G blended services in part because the architecture has open interfaces, supporting both IP Multimedia Subsystem and non-IMS service and application domains.
The new Acuity offering follows succeeds Lucent’s IMS product line, which Giere said has brought in eight contracts for Lucent by blending IP services using multiple Session Initiation Protocol sessions.
Overall, Giere stressed that Lucent is focusing on end users, expanding its quality of service network capabilities to include the quality of experience.
