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Chinese Operators Select Alcatel-Lucent to Enhance Mobile Network Intelligence
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Alcatel-Lucent has been selected by Jiangsu Mobile, a subsidiary of China Mobile, and Ningxia Telecom, a unit of China Telecom, to deploy its 9900 Wireless Network Guardian (WNG) solution in the operators’ 3G network and operations centres. By providing advanced wireless data analytics, Alcatel-Lucent will enable the two Chinese operators to gain insight into the performance of their subscriber devices, applications and networks in real time. The information can be then used to improve the customer experience of mobile broadband data services.

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE : ALU)  announced today that Chinese operators Jiangsu Mobile, a subsidiary of China Mobile, and Ningxia Telecom, a subsidiary of China Telecom, will deploy the Alcatel-Lucent 9900 Wireless Network Guardian (WNG) in their 3G network and operations centre. By providing advanced wireless data analytics, Alcatel-Lucent will enable the two Chinese service providers to gain in-depth knowledge of how their subscriber devices, applications and networks are performing in real time.

By understanding these dynamics and their effect on wireless broadband data, Alcatel-Lucent gives Jiangsu and Ningxia the ability to detect anomalies before they impact the network or its users, ensuring a new level of control and predictability. The contracts were signed by Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell, Alcatel-Lucent’s flagship company in China.

With the growth of data-intensive devices such as smartphones, tablets and dongles, it is crucial for operators to have the capability to manage the end-to-end performance of these devices on their mobile network. The 9900 WNG allows operators to efficiently and optimally accommodate demanding data applications through strategic network expansion.

The Alcatel-Lucent 9900 WNG will provide Jiangsu Mobile and Ningxia Telecom with valuable intelligence into the usage of IP data on their 3G network, helping them better understand the subscriber experience of mobile data on their networks, diagnose subscriber issues and provide application and network statistics for network dimensioning and network expansion. The Alcatel-Lucent 9900 WNG gives operators detailed understanding of the complex relationship between application traffic, network performance and subscriber experience.  By providing comprehensive visibility into the mobile data traffic, the 9900 WNG assists the operators in many key areas including network operations and planning, device and application qualification and customer care.

“The 9900 WNG makes it possible for carriers to monitor and engineer their wireless data network with the level of granularity needed to understand how subscribers, applications and network elements interact and their impact on every area, including the radio access network. As such, it fully aligns with our High Leverage Network vision and network transformation strategy,” said Rajeev Singh-Molares, president of Alcatel-Lucent’s activities in Asia-Pacific.

The Alcatel-Lucent 9900 WNG provides unique, real-time insight into the bandwidth, signalling and airtime the wireless network.  The 9900 WNG provides both per network element and network link and per user, per application context from and end-to-end network perspective.  The 9900 WNG can also identify a wide range of security and network issues.

The Alcatel-Lucent 9900 WNG is a major component of the Alcatel-Lucent Intelligent Traffic Management (ITM) solution recently launched at the Mobile World Congress 2011. The ITM solution allows service providers to automatically deal with anomalies in the network and act to minimize potential impact to the customer.

About Alcatel-Lucent

The long-trusted partner of service providers, enterprises, strategic industries and governments around the world, Alcatel-Lucent is a leader in mobile, fixed, IP and Optics technologies, and a pioneer in applications and services. Alcatel-Lucent includes Bell Labs, one of the world's foremost centres of research and innovation in communications technology.
With operations in more than 130 countries and one of the most experienced global services organizations in the industry, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with global reach.

The Company achieved revenues of Euro 16 billion in 2010 and is incorporated in France and headquartered in Paris.