Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris; NYSE: ALU) today opened its cloud R&D center in Kfar Saba. In Israel for the opening Alcatel-Lucent CEO Michel Combes said, "Having world-class cloud facilities in Israel, as well as in Silicon Valley, gives Alcatel-Lucent two of the brightest centers in the world focused on excellence in cloud technologies. Their location, in global innovation hubs, underscores our commitment to cloud's evolution, which we see as one of the most integral and influential technologies shaping next generation networks, communications, business and the economy within the next five years."
To meet the unique requirements of operating telecom networks within a cloud infrastructure, Alcatel-Lucent's cloud facility in Israel operates in close collaboration with the company's Bell Labs innovation arm and is an incubation center for NFV activities and customer projects.
During the opening Combes outlined Alcatel-Lucent's Shift Plan to transform from telecom generalist to specialist in IP networking and ultra-broadband access to leverage new technologies that will accelerate the move to the cloud by service providers.
The focus of the Kfar Saba center's work is Alcatel-Lucent's CloudBand solution a pioneering open, multivendor NFV management platform enabling service providers to bring the benefits of the cloud to their own networks and business operations, while offering cloud services with the security, reliability and quality enterprises and consumers expect from telecommunications networks.
Alcatel-Lucent's cloud facility in Kfar Saba in Israel is working to help customers apply NFV to create a simpler, more agile and efficient operating model for meeting networking demands.
The Kfar Saba R&D center also has collaborative relationships with Tel Aviv University and the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa to research distributed cloud optimization. Alcatel-Lucent will also be investing in cloud development at Kfar Saba as part of its global investment in cloud, which is an integral part of the technology focus of the Shift Plan.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on October 1, 2013
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