Overview: Alcatel-Lucent, a global leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband networking, IP technologies, applications and services offers end-to-end solutions for service providers, enterprises and governments to deliver voice, data and video to end-users.

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A Service Providers Guide to Accelerating and Monetizing Service Innovation by Alcatel-Lucent . September 2008 - A Service Delivery Environment (SDE) streamlines service creation, provisioning and management processes and enables efficient service agility, blending and personalization for a user-centric experience.

Achieve Eco-sustainable Innovation While Driving Profitable Growth by Alcatel-Lucent . September 2008 - Alcatel-Lucent's innovation engine explores new ideas and opportunities to address environmental concerns while solving business problems.

Alcatel-Lucent Next Generation Communications Center by Alcatel-Lucent . October 2007 - Alcatel-Lucent has developed the industry's most comprehensive and flexible approach to meet your individual needs for transforming network, services and business, and to ensure your success.

Analyst Paper: Preparing for Convergence: Network and IT Come Together by Alcatel-Lucent . August 2008 - This white paper discusses the convergence of IT and networking in the telecommunications industry.

Botniabanan AB, Sweden by Alcatel-Lucent . August 2008 - Botniabanan AB required a state-of-the-art communications solution for Sweden new high-speed line, Alcatel-Lucent is responsible for the design and deployment of radio communications solution for the Bothnia line 13 tunnels.

Building Triple-Play Services by Alcatel-Lucent . November 2008 - This SearchTelecom.com workshop looks at how to build business and technical plans to make sure all of the bases are covered for delivering highquality services that can be efficiently and consistently managed.

Converged Video Network Security by Alcatel-Lucent . August 2008 - Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) has created new opportunities for traditional voice and data carriers, the technology also comes with a high level of risk due to attacks by fraudsters and hackers. Read this paper and learn how to protect yourself.

Creating the Future Service Delivery Environment Mode of Operations’ Blueprint by Alcatel-Lucent . August 2008 - Service providers are combining conversational services with presence and digital television so an end user can see which friends are watching a particular TV show and subsequently chat with them and other viewers all on the TV screen.

E-Guide - IP Enables Service Creation by Alcatel-Lucent . September 2008 - IP technologies, including Web 2.0 and the emerging interactivity of the Web, can be combined with service provider APIs and hosted features to create new revenues and new partnerships for network operators.

E-Guide: Network Management and Applications Performance Services by Alcatel-Lucent . August 2008 - This E-Guide examines how telecom providers can exploit the growing desire for managed services by delivering the right network management and application performance services.

Episode 1: Trends and Transformation Impact within the OSS/BSS Marketplace by Alcatel-Lucent . June 2008 - Johanne discusses the current trends in the $20 Billion communication software market place with particular emphasis on business and operations support systems, also known as OSS/BSS.

Guidelines for Selecting the Right Services Partner to Bridge Business and Technology Innovation by Alcatel-Lucent . February 2008 - This paper is meant to help executive decision-makers at carrier and enterprise organizations understand the importance of business-, service- and network-level transformation.

How to Approach IPTV Solution Integration - A Framework on Lessons Learned by Alcatel-Lucent . August 2008 - This paper describes how to perform IPTV solution integration, blending end-to-end IPTV component technical knowledge with a strong business-focused approach to create closely integrated work packages.

IP Transformation and Stakeholder Engagement – Managing Stakeholders during Complex Change Programs by Alcatel-Lucent . November 2008 - This white paper examines the impact large change programs have on working relations
with external parties and discusses what strategies telecom companies can employ to
avoid the pitfalls associated with transformation and migration.

IPTV Business Strategies: A Perspective by Alcatel-Lucent . February 2008 - This paper provides a perspective on positioning IPTV within an overall market strategy and business model to increase the likelihood of commercial success.

IPTV Test and Measurement Best Practices by Alcatel-Lucent . August 2008 - This whitepaper focuses on providing a pragmatic set of test and measurement guidelines that can be implemented on a live operational IPTV service. The recommendations given in this paper are generally applicable to any IPTV system.

Is Your Network Ready? - Meeting the Challenges of Today's New Communications Environment by Alcatel-Lucent . August 2008 - Demand for new, blended services by consumers and enterprise customers is driving service providers to deploy next generation, IP-based networks. This paper examines the steps you’ll need to follow to ensure success in completing network transformation.

IT Briefing: Next-generation service provider platforms: What do service providers need? by Alcatel-Lucent . November 2008 - In this transcript from a SearchTelecom.com videocast, telecom expert Tom Nolle discusses what carriers need to embrace in order to save themselves from being marginalized due to drastically reduced "revenue per bit" pricing.

IT Briefing: Selling the CIO on Business Services by Alcatel-Lucent . October 2008 - This document is based on an Alcatel-Lucent/TechTarget webcast entitled “Selling the CIO on Business Services.”

Learn How to Take IPTV to the Next Level with TPSDA 2.0 by Alcatel-Lucent . September 2008 - This paper describes the challenges operators face in next generation service delivery and how TPSDA helps operators transform their networks to realize mass-market delivery of profitable blended voice, video and data services.

Leveraging Hosted Applications Solutions to Enhance Customer Value by Alcatel-Lucent . August 2008 - This paper defines the capabilities of hosted application solution providers, explores the value proposition for service providers and describes the characteristics that service providers should look for applications and hosted application solution.

Making a Smart Choice: Leveraging the Right Services Partner for Competitive Advantage by Alcatel-Lucent . August 2008 - This paper helps executive decision-makers at carrier and enterprise organizations understand the importance of business, service and network-level transformation in achieving differentiation, and to help them address the complexities.

Managing Video Networks in a Metro Environment by Alcatel-Lucent . April 2008 - Next generation networks are a key enabler of an effective end-to-end security solution. Preventing disruptive elements is both a public duty and a key business requirement to entice passengers and generate the associated revenues.

New Strategies for Revenue-Generation and IP Transformation by Alcatel-Lucent . September 2008 - IP technologies can help service providers create new revenues and In this podcast, Tom Nolle and Kate Gerwig discuss IP transformation and how it relates to the network as an application platform.

Next-generation service provider platforms: What do service providers need? by Alcatel-Lucent . October 2008 - In this SearchTelecom.com videocast, telecom expert Tom Nolle discusses what carriers need to embrace in order to save themselves from being marginalized due to drastically reduced "revenue per bit" pricing.

Podcast: Next-generation service provider platforms: What do service providers need? by Alcatel-Lucent . October 2008 - In this podcast, telecom expert Tom Nolle discusses what carriers need to embrace in order to save themselves from being marginalized due to drastically reduced "revenue per bit" pricing.

Podcast: Selling the CIO on Business Services by Alcatel-Lucent . September 2008 - This podcast with enterprise expert Gary Audin is designed to help service providers sell beyond connectivity.

Podcast: Service Delivery Best Practices: Translating Customer Needs into Network Services by Alcatel-Lucent . November 2008 - This podcast will look at the methodology associated with creating optimally profitable services while also optimizing infrastructure and operations investments.

Selling the CIO on Business Services by Alcatel-Lucent . September 2008 - Selling the CIO on business services will help telecom service providers improve their RFP responses and increase business services revenue, no matter what the size of the business. This videocast with enterprise expert Gary Audin is designed to help.

Solving the NGN Data Migration Challenge by Alcatel-Lucent . August 2008 - The costs associated with data inaccuracy have emerged as a fundamental issue. This white paper outlines a new approach to help operators optimize the total costs for subscriber data validation during IP Transformation.

Strategies for Supporting Next-generation Networks: Proactive, Predictive & Preventive by Alcatel-Lucent . August 2008 - This white paper dimensions the two-stage evolution from today’s prevalent product level support model to network-level support and ultimately to service-level support.

Subscriber Data: How Service Providers Can Mine the Gold Buried in Their Networks by Alcatel-Lucent . August 2008 - This white paper discusses how customer information or subscriber data is an important asset to be managed. Learn how service providers can use subscriber data as a foundation to generate new revenue streams and strengthen their brand.

Supporting Operations Transformation with Service Modeling Methodology by Alcatel-Lucent . June 2008 - Service Operations Modeling is a technique to characterize the operations of communication services and to establish a series of measurable and important indicators which span the entire lifespan of a service.

Telecom Providers look to managed services to differentiate from the competition by Alcatel-Lucent . August 2008 - Telecom providers need to embrace higher-margin value-added services and guarantee network service quality to distinguish themselves from the competition and position themselves for growth.

The Business Value of the Network Integrator by Alcatel-Lucent . November 2008 - Read this white paper to learn how the Network Integrator is responsible for managing subprojects within the context of multivendor agreements with the appropriate third parties and service providers.

The Enterprise Network Partner – Management and Transformation by Alcatel-Lucent . November 2008 - This paper addresses the benefits of working with a managed service provider with the right experience to handle the management and transformation of enterprise voice and data networks and bring powerful strategic advantages to today’s businesses.

The Future Carrier Network: Adopting New Outsourcing Business Models by Alcatel-Lucent . November 2008 - This paper is meant to help operators embrace a new strategy for differentiating and competing successfully in a market characterized
by flux.

The Need for IPTV End to End Solution Integration - Learned the Hard Way by Alcatel-Lucent . August 2008 - E2E SI define as a “golden thread” that elegantly ties together all deployment lifecycle phases, weaving project work packages and workflows together for maximum efficiency and making IPTV deployments and enhancements predictable.

Top Threats to Mobile Networks – And What to Do about Them by Alcatel-Lucent . November 2008 - This white paper describes the most common attacks on mobile networks and what to do about them.

Triple threat or trip to success? by Alcatel-Lucent . October 2008 - This podcast examines the status of triple-play services among telecommunications service providers and what needs to happen to increase revenue.

Webcast: Service Delivery Best Practices: Translating Customer Needs into Network Services by Alcatel-Lucent . November 2008 - This webcast will look at the methodology associated with creating optimally profitable services while also optimizing infrastructure and operations investments.

Wind, Italy: Transforming The Business to Deliver Triple Play Services To Customers by Alcatel-Lucent . November 2008 - Alcatel-Lucent introduced a business transformation program, enabling the delivery of a turnkey integrated triple play solution, for which it provided the design, testing, integration, deployment and maintenance.