Telecom Lead Asia: Several telecom operators have
welcomed Alcatel-Lucent’s entry into the $4 billion Internet core router
market.
The operators who welcomed include BT, NTT and Verizon.
Karl Penaluna, president, BT Global Networks and Systems
BT is constantly improving our network to deliver new and
better broadband services to our consumer and business customers. We’ve been
using Alcatel-Lucent’s 7750 Service Router for many years as part of the
rollout of the 21CN program across the UK. As we deal with increasing traffic
volumes and deliver the growth in cloud services from our data centers, we’ll
need platforms for our national and metro core networks that scale to 100G
links and beyond. We’re also constantly seeking to reduce our physical
footprint and power per bit, so we’re very encouraged to see Alcatel-Lucent
meeting these challenges with the 7950 XRS.”
Fumio Ito, vice president Network Services Technology of
NTT Communications
The success of our broadband services worldwide is
resulting in rapid traffic growth in our IP network. As we carry more traffic,
we have to improve the power and space efficiency of our network
infrastructure. We are pleased to see innovation from Alcatel-Lucent that
brings enhancements to the IP network in terms that might be able to address
our operational challenges and costs.
Ihab Tarazi, vice president of Global IP and Transport
Planning and Technology at Verizon
Verizon is experiencing tremendous growth in metro
Ethernet services. Platforms such as the Alcatel-Lucent 7950 XRS will help us
efficiently scale to support higher speeds and new capabilities while offering
efficiency and flexibility. We applaud Alcatel-Lucent for its bold approach to
router value and performance.
Alcatel-Lucent said its new Internet core router products
will deliver a five-fold improvement in capacity and performance as well as
energy savings of 66 percent compared with today’s IP core routers. The combined
global energy consumption of core routers has been estimated by Bell Labs to
exceed 1.8 Terawatts by 2016, the equivalent of 128,000 homes.
Cisco leads in core router market
Recently, Synergy Research Group said Cisco showed the
strongest momentum in the Core Router market in Q2 2011 where they gained
market share quarter-over-quarter and year-over-year as well as over a
four-quarter rolling average. North America, which represents the largest
portion of the Core Router market, saw the biggest share movements with Cisco
gaining 4.94 market share points versus Juniper losing 6.22 market share
points.
“Our 7950 XRS core router systems sit at the massive
intersections of the Internet, where billions of individual messages are
directed to the correct destinations every second. Our technology will provide
more capacity and more flexible traffic management with reduced energy
consumption, helping to ensure better performance from global broadband
networks,” said Basil Alwan, president of the company’s Internet Protocol
division.
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