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CEO of Lucent's Service Provider Networks business. "The linkage of optical technology with Internet data centers in service provider networks will make possible the delivery of next-generation Internet services."
To: David J. Smith who started this subject
From: Gus Tuesday, Jun 6, 2000 2:12 AM ET
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EMC, IBM, Sun Microsystems and Lucent Technologies To Address Technology Needs of Emerging 'CyberCarriers'
Separate Technology Agreements Will Help Service Providers Speed Delivery of Internet Applications and Services over Optical Infrastructure
MURRAY HILL, N.J., June 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) today said it has reached agreement separately with EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW) to work with Lucent to enable an emerging generation of high-bandwidth service providers, called CyberCarriers, to speed delivery of next-generation digital content, applications and services to customers.
CyberCarriers are service providers who offer integrated high-speed networking and data center services, including web hosting, servers, storage and network transport, to Applications Service Providers, Internet Service Providers, web-hosting companies and others. Those companies in turn sell next generation services, such as hosted email or e-commerce applications, to enterprise and residential customers. CyberCarriers integrate high- performance Internet data centers with very high bandwidth optical backbone and wireless networks.
"According to industry estimates, CyberCarriers are expected to spend $133 billion on professional services and data center and network infrastructure over the next three years," said Pat Russo, executive vice president and CEO of Lucent's Service Provider Networks business. "The linkage of optical technology with Internet data centers in service provider networks will make possible the delivery of next-generation Internet services."
Today's announcement follows Lucent's May 31 unveiling of its initiative in the CyberCarrier market. That announcement included the Lucent CyberCarrier Reference Architecture, developed in conjunction with Sun, IBM and EMC, for data centers and networks, and a joint professional services offering for CyberCarriers, based on the complementary skills of Lucent's NetworkCare Professional Services and IBM's Global Services units, leaders in network and data center design, installation and management.
Today's agreements include plans by EMC, IBM, Lucent and Sun to develop and deliver software, server, storage and networking products to be used in the CyberCarrier reference architecture. Lucent will certify these multi- vendor offerings in order to speed deployment of integrated CyberCarrier solutions in the market.
To ensure that technology solutions meet the needs of CyberCarriers, Lucent will create and staff, with its partners, joint interoperability and demonstration labs around the world, where solutions can be demonstrated, staged and tested for customers. CyberCarrier technology solutions will be certified in Lucent's interoperability labs. Lucent products also will be incorporated into the labs of partners.
The first lab will be a $10 million facility reserved for CyberCarrier solutions at Lucent's Bell Labs in Holmdel, N.J. Other labs will be sited in Hilversum, The Netherlands; Nuremberg, Germany; and Tokyo.
The companies also agreed to optically enable data centers by embedding Lucent's OptiStar adapters into selected server and storage products and to launch joint marketing and sales programs to help CyberCarriers.
In a Memorandum of Understanding, CyberRoute -- a Netherlands-based ASP -- named Lucent as its prime contractor in its expansion of additional data centers for a highly scalable, reliable and secure application portal including service management facilities throughout Europe. CyberRoute facilitates Server Based IT services to dot-com companies, as well as medium- sized and large corporations ranging from i-business, virtual workplace solutions, computing, communications and IP network environment. "CyberRoute believes in offering the best technologies and IT services available on the market so our customers can concentrate on their core business," said Dr. B Zolfagharpour, CEO of CyberRoute. "In Lucent we found a technology leader with a comprehensive partnership based approach to the emerging CyberCarrier market."
EMC/Lucent Technologies Alliance
Lucent and EMC will work together to qualify EMC's intelligent storage systems -- including EMC's new Symmetrix 8000 series of enterprise storage systems, the EMC Celerra enterprise network file server and EMC Connectrix Enterprise Storage Network system -- as part of Lucent's offers for CyberCarriers. The combination of EMC systems and software will provide CyberCarriers with an electronic information infrastructure -- an E- Infostructure -- that will allow their customers to manage, share and protect their information in the most effective ways possible.
EMC and Lucent also will engage in joint interoperability development and testing to ensure compatibility between Lucent's OptiStar optical networking technology and EMC systems and software. The combination of these solutions will extend Lucent's optical network capabilities to EMC-based storage area networks, facilitating the creation of high performance virtual data centers through CyberCarriers.
Joseph Tucci, EMC's President and Chief Operating Officer, said, " In order to be successful in this emerging market, service providers must base their offerings on a world-class information infrastructure. Lucent and EMC are working together to ensure that CyberCarriers can capitalize on the market leading networking and storage technology so they can get to market quickly. These customers solutions and services provide a clear competitive advantage and assure critical information is always available and properly protected."
IBM/Lucent Technologies Relationship
As an acknowledged e-business leader, IBM plans to work with Lucent to certify IBM servers and software to enable CyberCarriers to launch world-class e-commerce solutions and revenue-generating data center applications quickly. IBM plans to leverage its enterprise industry applications and ISV relationships with CyberCarriers to make these applications network-enabled.
IBM's award-winning software solutions, used in 84 percent of the Fortune 100, including the WebSphere software platform, MQ Series, and DB2 middleware, Lotus' leading real-time collaboration software, and selected Tivoli technology management solutions, will be certified to support availability and performance of applications and data center services. As part of the relationship, Lucent and IBM also plan to work together to optically-enable IBM Netfinity, RS/6000 and S/390 servers. In addition, IBM and Lucent plan to work together on open data center solutions based on Linux.
"The worldwide adoption of e-business is dramatically transforming the requirements for reliability, quality and service from IT applications and the underlying infrastructure that supports them, " said Nicholas M. Donofrio, IBM senior vice president and group executive, Technology and Manufacturing. "Solution providers must find new, innovative ways to meet those demands. Combining Lucent's leadership in communications networking with IBM's leadership in software and servers will allow us to do this by creating an e- business technology foundation that will meet our customers' needs now and in the future."
Sun Microsystems/Lucent Technologies Agreement
Lucent and Sun agreed to extend to the CyberCarrier segment an existing alliance aimed at delivering carrier-grade communications networking and network computing infrastructure to support e-business applications. Lucent and Sun are now porting Lucent's OptiStar technology to the Solaris(TM) Operating Environment for use with Sun servers and storage, which will significantly increase the amount of IP data those servers can transport within a CyberCarrier data center.
Lucent and Sun also will work together to certify offers for use in CyberCarrier networks that include products such as Sun's server and storage systems, as well as application and web server software and messaging and e- commerce applications from iPlanet(TM) E-commerce Solutions, a Sun/Netscape Alliance. Sun and Lucent also will collaborate more closely on innovations that address the growing demand for bandwidth to interconnect local and remote offices throughout a CyberCarrier's domain.
John McFarlane, president of Sun's Network Service Provider Division, said, "Lucent and Sun are leveraging our leadership and expertise with service providers to bring light enabled technology to the CyberCarrier and to give ASPs a foundation for business for decades to come."
Technology Demonstrations
Demonstrations of Lucent, EMC, IBM and Sun Microsystems technology solutions for CyberCarriers will be on display at Lucent's booth (#6815 Hall G) at the SuperComm Trade show June 6-9, 2000, in Atlanta, Ga.
Company Information
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world leader in information storage systems, software, networks and services, providing the information infrastructure for a connected world. Information about EMC's products and services can be found at emc.com.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. IBM provides e- business, strategic outsourcing, systems, solutions integration services and develops and manufactures the industry's most advanced information technologies, including computer systems, software, networking systems, storage devices and microelectronics. The fastest way to get more information about IBM is through the IBM home page at ibm.com. Information about Tivoli Systems, an IBM company, is available at tivoli.com. Information about Lotus, also an IBM company, is available at lotus.com.
Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU), headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., USA, designs and delivers the systems, software, silicon and services for next- generation communications networks for service providers and enterprises. Backed by the research and development of Bell Labs, Lucent focuses on high- growth areas such as optical and wireless networks; Internet infrastructure; communications software; communications semiconductors and optoelectronics; Web-based enterprise solutions that link private and public networks; and professional network design and consulting services. For more information on Lucent Technologies, visit its Web site at lucent.com.
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network is The Computer[TM]" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW) to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that power the Internet and allow companies worldwide to ".com" their businesses. With $14.2 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 170 countries and on the World Wide Web at sun.com.
Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Solaris and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries.
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