Alcatel-lucent Pushing New Enterprise Wares

摘要

Alcatel-Lucent last week was expected to unveil a range of enhancements to its large enterprise product portfolio, including an upgraded data center switch and IP telephony extensions. The enhancements are designed to help Alcatel-Lucent customers tackle projects such as data virtualization, unified communications and application and business process integration. The company says these objectives are in keeping with its "dynamic enterprise" vision of aligning networks, people, processes and knowledge to simplify communications and improve performance. It appears to be sticking. Alcatel-Lucent says it has signed on 5,000 new customers over the past two years, and that despite the current economic challenges and forecasts of lower IT spending globally contract sizes in the first half of 2008 have increased in the $1 million to $10 million-plus range.