HP & Alcatel-Lucent partner to be one-stop shop to telcos and enterprises

Stuart Corner
Thursday, 18 June 2009 18:55

Business IT - Technology

HP and Alcatel-Lucent are forming a ten-year global alliance under which they plan to develop and jointly market solutions that will "transform communication networks into converged, next-generation infrastructures," for service providers and enterprises with the aim of generating billions of euros of new revenues. HP will also transform and manage Alcatel-Lucent's IT Infrastructure.

They claim that their partnership will enable service providers to efficiently deliver new, revenue-generating services. They also plan to offer services to manage both this new and existing infrastructures and to create a joint go-to-market initiative to provide communications solutions to mid- and large-size enterprises and public sector organisations.

For the enterprise market, Alcatel-Lucent products in areas such as IP telephony, unified communications, mobility, security and contact centres will be integrated with HP IT solutions and offered to enterprises through HP resellers or as managed services. The alliance will create new end-to-end customer solutions that take advantage of both companies' product portfolios for the enterprise and telecom markets.

For service providers, HP and Alcatel-Lucent plan to align their offerings and common solutions to create a "one-stop shop," relieving service providers of the burden and complexity of coordinating the transformation of IT and telecom infrastructures. Similarly, the companies plan to empower enterprises to effectively create and manage integrated communication environments.

For its next generation platform architecture, Alcatel-Lucent would take advantage of HP IT and telecom technologies as well as HP supply chain efficiencies. Alcatel-Lucent says it will then be able to offer service providers sophisticated solutions that are based on common technologies for carrier-grade and IT applications and to help service providers exploit the advantages of standards-based server, processor and operating system technologies.

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