OPN Talks with …
Philippe Keryer
Executive VP at Alcatel-Lucent and OFC/NFOEC
Plenary Speaker
At each annual Optical Fiber
Communication/National Fiber
Optic Engineers Conference
(OFC/NFOEC), attendees and
exhibitors buzz about finding
new solutions for addressing the
ever-increasing global bandwidth
demand. This year, Alcatel-Lucent’s Philippe Keryer will
address this topic in his keynote
presentation titled “Beyond
Today’s Broadband Networks.”
Keryer is a long-time veteran
of the telecom industry and
a senior executive of Alcatel-Lucent with experience in
mobile access, GSM/WiMAX,
mobile radio and now carrier
products. He will describe
Alcatel-Lucent’s vision for how
current broadband networks
must evolve to become a full
IP multiservice network—what
Alcatel-Lucent calls its “High
Leverage Network.” He will also
focus on the critical role that
optical transport innovations,
technologies and solutions will
play in this transformation.
What are the challenges facing carriers and service providers in 2010?
Network providers must find innovative ways to generate additional revenue
streams for carrying ever-increasing
traffic on their networks. Currently,
they receive insufficient incremental
revenue for doing so. At the same time,
application and content providers have
very limited visibility over the network
capabilities that
could improve quality of experience and
strengthen relationships with end users.
Network providers
need to continuously
and cost effectively
scale bandwidth
across the network,
while leveraging the
“intelligence” of the
network to enable
new services and
business models.
In this context, the
innovation challenge for transport networks specifically is threefold: to meet
the market’s needs for capacity, cost and
eco-sustainability.
one that we are certain must provide
more than just increased bandwidth
at lower costs. It’s a service-oriented
approach to drive network transformation and embrace legacy and multiven-dor environments.
Evolving toward a High Lever-
age Network means collapsing today’s
complex, multiple
overlay and costly net-
works into a simpler,
multi-service, fully
optimized architec-
ture that reduces
both complexity and
cost. A High Lever-
age Network enables
continuously scalable
bandwidth, from the
access to the core,
while striving to
provide the lowest
possible cost per bit
transported.
At the same time,
it equips the network
with capabilities that
provide enhanced
quality of service and traffic optimiza-
tion. It enables the appropriate levels of
intelligence and control within the net-
work to deliver advanced services to end
users at the optimum cost and quality of
experience. It also puts eco-sustainability
at the forefront of the evolution of the
network to help reduce the carbon foot-
print of the telecom industry.
Evolving toward
a High Leverage
Network means
collapsing today’s
complex, multiple
overlay and costly
networks into a
simpler, multi-service,
fully optimized
architecture that
reduces both complexity and cost.”
“
What is the High Leverage
Network and how does it work?
The High Leverage Network is our
vision for the network of the future—
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