Alcatel-Lucent
Enterprise Network Infrastructure Solutions
With an Alcatel-Lucent application fluent network, enterprises are able to meet today's demand for performance-optimised bandwidth with reduced complexity. Alcatel-Lucent network infrastructure products provide network solutions that dynamically adapt to optimise real time application delivery.
Customers benefit from this application fluent network through streamlined operations, creating a resilient and low-latency network while delivering a high quality user experience.
Network Convergence Solutions
Your network is facing unprecedented challenges caused by three trends: the need to deliver mission-critical, real-time applications; the explosion of new devices and integration of employee devices not under corporate control; and virtualisation.
Today, you need a network that can cost-effectively:
- Deliver a high-quality user voice and video experience through a resilient architecture, with fast re-convergence time, minimal jitter and latency, and selective bandwidth allocation to specific applications.
- Accommodate user and device mobility with a high degree of integration between the wired and wireless LAN.
- Simplify management and maintenance.
The Alcatel-Lucent Application Fluent Converged Network Solution
This application fluent converged network solution is based on a robust 10GigE core and includes market-leading resiliency, switching capacity, high port density and low power consumption.
It delivers innovation with a simplified, flatter network and virtualization technology to remove complexity, improve resiliency and optimise network resource utilization. It enables enterprises to provide a high-quality user experience for real-time applications across all devices and streamline operations while significantly reducing costs. And it already supports IPv6 and is ready to support 40GigE, 100GigE, and the continued convergence of LAN and WLAN without changing out hardware.
The Alcatel-Lucent solution offers unique automatic tuning of network performance for quality application delivery and built-in security. It provides low touch operations, automated provisioning of edge switches and endpoints and integrated carrier-class troubleshooting tools. It reduces costs with a flatter network that requires less equipment, makes better use of switch and network links through network virtualisation technology, and market-leading low power consumption that cuts operational costs.
Simplified Application Fluent Network
The application fluent network as defined by Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise provides an innovative solution to meet the demands of rich media applications and virtualisation within the enterprise. This network transforms the way an enterprise delivers applications across all its global operations, improving application performance while minimising capital and operating costs.
It features a resilient architecture, streamlined operations, and automatic control, which together meet the challenges facing enterprise IT groups today. With tangible benefits such as a high-quality user experience, reduced demands on IT staff, and a faster time to ROI, the application fluent network represents market leading innovation in network design and operation.
Alcatel-Lucent is leading the migration to the application fluent network with solutions that:
- Provide choice with industry-leading, award-winning solutions
- Allow the enterprise to tailor the network to business requirements
- Maximise existing investments with a systematic multivendor approach
Elements of Application Fluent Networks
Architecture: A simplified, optimised and resilient network with market-class leading capacity, resiliency, virtualisation, and built-in security
Control: Provides unique dynamic tuning of network performance that is auto-sensing and profile and policy driven, to ensure high quality real-time application delivery
Operations: Reduced complexity through automatic provisioning, converged management, consistency of OmniSwitch features, and market-leading low power consumption, cooling and space requirements.
Data Center Switching Solutions
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Data Center Switching Solution provides a complete network infrastructure for the modern data center of any size.
This solution extends the Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise vision of application fluency to the data center with a unique services-based approach that transforms the data center into a private cloud that can seamlessly co-exist with public cloud services. Virtual data centers can be defined for specific corporate work groups. A services approach means that the network is fluent in understanding what is needed to ensure that an application will perform as required.
Our Data Center Switching Solution provides a high quality user experience with new mission-critical real-time applications and improves agility in deploying new applications while significantly reducing data center costs. With this solution, customers can relieve the current stress of antiquated network architectures and management tools by taking advantage of new virtualization and management technologies to consolidate as well as to prepare for storage convergence.
With our modular, highly scalable architecture, customers of all sizes can deploy a fully functional and cost-effective data center switching solution, whether they need a data center fabric to interconnect as little as one hundred servers or for 1000's of servers.
To give customers greater flexibility in building affordable, best-of-breed data center solutions, Alcatel-Lucent has expanded is partner ecosystem with leading storage-area network (SAN), network interface adapter, and virtualisation software/cloud infrastructure solution providers.
Components/Features
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Application Fluent Data Center Switching Blueprint is composed of four elements: The Virtual Network Profile (vNP), The Pod, The Mesh and Management Tools.
The Virtual Network Profile (vNP) is unique to Alcatel-Lucent enterprise and allows applications to be managed as services where the network understands each application and the network can automatically adapt to optimise application performance, including automating the movement of virtual machines within the fabric.
The new 40GigE Pod brings unmatched high bandwidth and low-latency server to server traffic capacity to the Alcatel-lucent Mesh, enabling enterprises to deploy new real-time applications and expand cloud services usage. In each Pod, 40GigE links directly connect 2, 4, 6 or more top of the rack OmniSwitch 6900 switches. A single Pod can be a complete data center for smaller enterprises or be grown to a full Mesh in larger enterprises that wish to transform their data center following a staged approach.
The Mesh is created by connecting Pods to each other and to core switches. It scales linearly to from several hundred to over 14,000 server facing ports and provides resilient and low latency any to any connectivity. The Mesh is designed using the market-leading OmniSwitch 10K for the core of the fabric, the OmniSwitch 6900 for top of rack with 10GigE servers, and the OmniSwitch 6850E for top of rack with 1GigE servers.
Management Tools provide complete management for all devices in the Mesh. The suite of management tools includes OmniVista 2500 Virtual Machine Management (VMM) for management of VM mobility and integration with standard hypervisors, OmniVista 2500 NMS for Mesh Provisioning and Management, VitalQIP for IP Address Management, and 8950 AAA (Authentication, Authorization and Accounting) for security. Application delivery visibility is provided by VitalSuite ensuring that users experience the quality of service that is desired.
Visibility Tools include VitalSuite for end to end service level management, ensuring that users experience the quality of service that is desired.
