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. |
