NI Deployments [120]: Belgacom [Belgium] Uses ALU 7750 to Provide Application Visibly to Enterprises

Alcatel-Lucent announced that "Alcatel-Lucent and Belgacom, are offering enterprises a new tool to enable them to improve operations and identify potential cost savings. Alcatel-Lucent’s ‘Application Assurance’ solution provides unprecedented visibility into which applications are using up the most resources on enterprise networks at any given time as well as how these applications are performing – critical information that can be used to enhance business operations .. Belgacom’s deployment of Alcatel-Lucent’s Application Assurance solution will help give enterprises the confidence that the applications they rely on – from both their own dedicated network and the cloud - are operating at optimum efficiency".

Tom Wuyts, director WAN, Internet & Security at Belgacom said: “With the Alcatel-Lucent Application Assurance solution, our enterprise customers will have clear insight into how much bandwidth various applications are using – this is a key element of our ‘Smart Networking’ initiative, which is geared toward bringing greater intelligence to our networks for the benefit of our customers.

"Alcatel-Lucent’s Application Assurance solution is offered on top of the industry-leading Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router (SR) and 7450 Ethernet Service Switch (ESS). The solution is based on the Multiservice Integrated Service Adapter (MS-ISA) - which extends the intelligence of the 7750 SR [see  "Alcatel Lucent 7750 DPI Technology"-  here] and 7450 ESS - in combination with the 5670 Reporting and Analysis Manager (RAM), which provides extensive tools and capabilities to analyse and process detailed, application-level statistics per-subscriber".

See "Alcatel-Lucent and Belgacom help enterprises improve operations by tracking the use and performance of applications on their networks" - here.