Alcatel-Lucent Expands Collaboration With Intel - Quick Facts

(RTTNews) - French telecom equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent SA (ALU) reported expanding its collaboration with Intel Corp. (INTC) to help global operators improve their time to market and operational efficiency, and to drive the creative development of new products and services for consumers and business customers with the use of cloud technologies. This global collaboration is aimed at accelerating the development and delivery of optimized virtualized cloud, wireless and IP Network Functions using Intel architecture.

According to the companies, Network Functions Virtualization or NFV appeals mainly to mobile service providers now as it allows them to innovate more quickly and easily whilst providing the best return on their investments in an all-IP network infrastructure such as LTE.

Particularly, the expanded collaboration would concentrate on 3 areas to accelerate the development of three Alcatel-Lucent platforms optimized on Intel architecture to enhance performance and scale: Virtualized Radio Access Networks, Cloud Platform, and high-performance Packet Processing for advanced IP/MPLS platforms and functions.