Alcatel chases dynamic enterprises

Alcatel-Lucent is aggressively ramping up its enterprise play, this week unveiling its Dynamic Enterprise strategy. The pitch is that unified communications and real time networks will help unleash the knowledge that is often locked in large firms because of their disparate systems and said legacy processes. CEO Pat Russo told a Paris conference that Alcatel-Lucent was focusing on tools and applications that help firms tap the information they have in a timely and relevant way.

Russo said knowledge and expertise was too often confined to certain key employees and processes; Alcatel-Lucent was focusing on network and web services to help firms "use the knowledge that already exists in companies to best effect." The push to engage corporates in a major up grade of their networks and IP applications comes as telco hardware spending is rapidly slowing.

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