Alcatel-Lucent End-to-End IMS Solution
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Cost-effective IP transformation
The Bell Labs Total Cost of Ownership Study (2008)
compared Alcatel-Lucent IMS, Alcatel-Lucent softswitch
offers and competitors’ softswitch offers, and demonstrated
that Alcatel-Lucent IMS is the most cost-effective offer. The
Alcatel-Lucent IMS Solution provides the following benefits.
RedUCTIon In ReCURRIng oPeX
Alcatel-Lucent IMS offers a highly concentrated and
efficient subscriber-provisioning engine whose automation
and low provisioning fallout rate offer better recurring OPEX.
It provides one element management system (EMS) on
a single server connecting and coordinating subscriber
translations for the entire core networks, and a single
system for all fault and performance information also
lower OPEX.
gReATeR CAPeX SAvIngS
Alcatel-Lucent IMS needs fewer servers at most network
sites and provides improvements in security hardening
procedures and single access point EMSs, improving
installation and turn up and thereby providing greater
capital expenditure (CAPEX) savings.
HIgHeR PeneTRATIonS oF IP-To-IP TRAFFIC
ACCenTUATe THe IMS ARCHITeCTURe’S beTTeR
ToTAL CoST oF owneRSHIP
The Bell Labs study examined a single application: VoIP.
Multiple and multimedia applications further tip the
customer-expenditure scale in favor of IMS solutions over
softswitch or point solutions.
The Alcatel-Lucent IP Transformation Solution is a suite
of services that enables wireline and wireless network
operators to transform an existing legacy network and
services portfolio to a next-generation technology and
services offering in a controlled and managed way.
According to the Bell Labs Study, this solution reduces
OPEX by up to 12 percent per year and CAPEX by
5 percent to 30 percent, depending on the size of the
network, and increases revenue in established, complex
legacy networks, generally spread over dispersed geographic
boundaries. If you have wireline and wireless assets, you
can leverage the IP Transformation Solution to evolve the
two networks into a single, converged infrastructure.
The transformed core network then provides the foundation
for realizing cost reductions — through the transition to a
more efficient IP-based network, and enabling new services.
Alcatel-Lucent can help you design and deploy a hybrid
migration strategy that leverages existing network infra-
structures to enable a new generation of services. These
services will offer consumers and businesses the ability to
mix and match capabilities at will: voice, data and video
over broadband wired or wireless infrastructures.
Alcatel-Lucent delivers the capability to migrate
current infrastructures to an all-IP network,
potentially reducing the OPEX up to 26%
(Source: Bell Labs modeling)
