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THE NEW CORPORATE NETWORK:

How Convergence Addresses Businesses’ Top Six Networking Challenges

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nterprises today are faced with significant challenges in delivery of real-time
applications, such as video, that increasingly demand more and higher quality
bandwidth. To complicate matters, virtualization changes everything. For the firsttime, even with a new generation of switching, it is no longer possible to add enough raw
bandwidth to solve this problem.
What is needed is a simplified, resilient, and secure network that provides
business agility and streamlines IT operations. The answer is a converged network
infrastructure that is application fluent. An application fluent network dynamically adjusts
for voice, data, andvideo applications while streamlining the number of required
platforms and delivering simplified management. This is convergence without complexity.
The result is increased simplicity and reduced cost,, with the flexibility and performance
needed to support critical business needs like collaboration, video conferencing, mobile
workers, and more.
In this way, an application fluent networkcan address the six major challenges businesses
face with their current network infrastructures: agility, quality of service, cost, staffing,
security, and return on investment (ROI).
Challenge 1: Enable Business Agility

Challenge 5: Enhance Security

Challenge 2: Meet Stringent Quality of
Service (QoS) Levels

Challenge 6: Maximize Return on
Investment (ROI)

Challenge 3: ContainSpiraling Costs

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Challenge 4: Attract and Retain Quality
IT Personnel

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n today’s always-on business environment, enterprises can’t afford to stand still. They must
move at the speed of business to capitalize onopportunities and swiftly respond to
competition, deploying assets in minutes not months while still providing a high quality
experience for users employing real-time applications.
An application fluent network can help businesses accomplish this and more by providing
streamlined operations with:
• Automation for provisioning of network elements and endpoints
• Carrier-class troubleshooting toolsfor monitoring actual application performance
• Automated control
• Automatically adapting to the requirements of users, devices, and applications.
An application fluent network delivers improved application performance, thus enhancing
the overall user experience. This increases employee productivity, and can have a positive
impact on an enterprise’s ability to achieve its financial andstrategic business goals.
By simplifying and automating the network, Alcatel-Lucent solutions deliver the flexibility
and agility businesses need to rapidly adapt to changing business requirements. With an
application fluent network from Alcatel-Lucent, your organization can easily support new
business needs, whether that’s adding new branch offices, enhancing mobile connectivity,introducing new collaboration tools, and more. You’ll have the scalability you need to support
business growth: Alcatel-Lucent’s comprehensive OmniAccess™ portfolio includes wireless
routing platforms and access points that can scale from a small to a large number of seats.
When combined with Alcatel-Lucent's market-leading OmniSwitch family of 10GigE switches
that can scale networks from 10 to tens ofthousands of Ethernet ports varying in speed
from 10 Megabit to 10 Gigabit and its newest family member, businesses get the agility
they need with no loss of application quality.

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