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Novell, Inc. will be one of the first companies to deploy Lucent's voice and IP
application solutions.
MAY 4, 1999, M2 Communications - MURRAY HILL, N.J. -- Lucent Technologies
(NYSE: LU) today announced the industry's most comprehensive, reliable and flexible
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) hardware and software products for enterprise
customers. This unique set of solutions allows customers the unprecedented ability to
manage and control their enterprise VoIP networks dynamically, Lucent said.
"Lucent is raising the bar on Voice over IP by doing much more than moving voice
packets over IP networks," said Karyn Mashima, vice president of enterprise networks
at Lucent. "We are tapping into the power of voice and data at a new level with VoIP
products that meet a business' changing priorities for high-quality, IP-smart
communications. In addition, with these new solutions, directory information can be
rapidly integrated into multiple voice and IP applications, making network management
highly efficient and cost-effective for IT managers."
This new package of software and hardware - collectively called Real World VoIP
NetworksSM - builds on nine existing Lucent voice, IP application and data networking
products, and on Lucent's market leadership position in PBXs, call centers and
messaging. These solutions offer customers benefits such as reliable and
high-performance voice calling, multivendor networking and investment protection in
their existing voice, data and IP application products.
Novell, Inc. will be one of the first companies to deploy Lucent's voice and IP
application solutions.
"Novell is deploying leading technologies within our organization to integrate and
streamline our business processes, especially those that touch the customer," said Dr.
Eric Schmidt, Chairman and CEO of Novell. "Lucent offers Novell outstanding
integration of voice and data services and is fulfilling its promise to deliver end-to-end,
feature-rich, directory-enabled VoIP solutions."
Implementation Timeline 1999 and 2000
Lucent is delivering on its implementation of Real World VoIP Networks products
today and will continue this implementation through 2000. In 1999, Lucent's enterprise
VoIP products, such as DEFINITY IP Solutions and IP Exchange Systems, label voice
flows using 802.1p, an extension of the IEEE standard and other standards-based
Quality of Service (QoS) parameters. Real-time queuing allows Lucent's Cajun Campus
switches to queue voice flows as indicated by the VoIP applications and to prioritize
these flows based on RealNet Rules, Lucent's new policy management application for
multivendor environments that will allow managers to drive network behavior that maps
to business processes and needs.
Lucent is delivering voice capabilities through its Cajun Campus portfolio of local area
network switches today, enabling customers to make reliable, seamless, end-to-end
calls across multivendor networks. The Cajun Campus switches, which have a
non-blocking architecture and real-time queuing, are engineered to carry VoIP calls,
and can inspect and classify voice packets at wire speed, which minimizes latency and
speeds voice traffic.
"Lucent's voice over IP products and services are targeted at branch offices or
headquarters locations where IT managers need to cut their costs dramatically and
improve the efficiency of their IP networks," said Tom Nolle, president of CIMI Corp.,
a market-research firm in Voorhees, N.J. "In fact, Lucent's VoIP architecture is
perfectly suited for organizations requiring reliable data networking fabrics, such as
Lucent's Cajun Campus products." According to Nolle's Netwatcher October 1998
report, over 800,000 locations in the U.S. alone are looking for sophisticated enterprise
VoIP applications.
Beginning in the first half of 2000, Lucent will be delivering a directory-based schema
for all user information. This schema, built on existing work being done in standards
groups, will be utilized by all of Lucent's enterprise applications, including the VoIP
products. These applications can be deployed using the Lightweight Directory Access
Protocol (LDAP), a universal directory services standard. Lucent's applications will
leverage this common repository of user information, allowing organizations to reduce
costs, streamline access to the network and deliver services to users based on Class of
Service and QoS parameters.
Also in the first half of 2000, Lucent will deliver multivendor VoIP networking,
seamlessly linking PBXs, gateways and data networking products by implementing
iNOW! (interoperability NOW!), an Internet Telephony interoperability profile that uses
the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) H.323 standard; QSIG (Q
Signaling), a universal PBX signaling standard; and DiffServ, a technique for tagging and
classifying packets across IP networks.
Real World VoIP Networks Products
Lucent's Real World VoIP Networks products - the market-leading DEFINITY IP
Solutions, IP Exchange Systems, MultiMedia Communications eXchange (MMCX),
CentreVu Internet Solutions, INTUITY AUDIX Multimedia Messaging System and
PacketStar Internet Telephony System (ITS) -- leverage Lucent's traffic-smart
networking, voice-enabled Cajun Campus switches, RealNet Rules Enterprise Policy
Manager and QIP Enterprise 5.0 IP address management services software, by
providing network managers with the tools to improve the reliability and performance of
their voice traffic -- combined with intelligent rules -- to prioritize voice traffic in the data
network.
Lucent Provides Directory-Enabled Enterprise Voice and VoIP Offers
Starting this fall, Lucent will begin beta trials of its next-generation directory-enabled
tools that will simplify and enhance LDAP-enabled management of the DEFINITY
Enterprise Communications Server, INTUITY AUDIX Multimedia Messaging System
and corporate networks.
These tools will utilize Lucent's real-time Directory Synchronization Technology (DST)
developed by Bell Labs. DST, combined with Novell Directory Services (NDS) and
directory gateway solutions from CCOM Information Systems, will enhance information
sharing, access and synchronization across converged networks. Telecom and network
managers can use these solutions that provide the value-added applications of single
sign-on, single point of administration, QoS through RealNet Rules, network security
and IP address management via QIP. Managers will be able to save time and simplify
execution of moves, adds and changes.
Novell, which is promoting directory-enabled networking standards with Lucent, will
trial Lucent's next-generation directory-enabled enterprise VoIP solutions with Novell
Directory Services at its headquarters. Novell will conduct the trial with the DEFINITY
ECS and INTUITY AUDIX Multimedia Messaging System.
Lucent will demonstrate its Real World VoIP Networking products at
NetWorld+Interop in Las Vegas, May 11-13, in booth number 4989. The company
will showcase how a simulated corporate office environment uses products such as
DEFINITY IP Solutions, IP Exchange Systems and INTUITY Message Manager,
combined with RealNet Rules and QIP, to make reliable voice calls over the Cajun
Campus network and dynamically reconfigure the network by applying rules to the most
critical voice applications in an organization.
Lucent's VoIP products are supported by Lucent NetCare services, providing the
people and expertise as well as IP address management, directory services, QOS,
policy, and security services.
Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., designs, builds and delivers a
wide range of public and private networks, communications systems and software, data
networking systems, business telephone systems and microelectronics components. Bell
Labs is the research and development arm for the company. Additional information
about Lucent is available on the company's Web site at lucent.com. |
