If the Application Assurance
solution shows that network performance is affected negatively by employees
accessing non-business-related services during business hours, then access to
those applications can be limited or restricted to non-critical times and the
performance of the enterprise’s VPN will be improved.
With the Alcatel-Lucent Application
Assurance solution, our enterprise customers will have clear insight into how
much bandwidth various applications are using. This is a key element of our
-Smart Networking’ initiative, which is geared toward bringing greater
intelligence to our networks for the benefit of our customers,” said Tom Wuyts,
director WAN, Internet & Security (Enterprise Business Unit) at Belgacom.
Enterprises are increasingly
interested in cooperating with their service providers to enhance visibility
and performance of business-critical applications running over their
network. Alcatel-Lucent’s Application Assurance solution directly
addresses that need – Belgacom’s enterprise customers will always know exactly
how their services are performing and will be able to make critical adjustments
as needed,” said Luc Defieuw, CEO Alcatel-Lucent
Bell in Belgium.
Alcatel-Lucent’s Application Assurance solution is offered on top of the
Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router (SR) and 7450 Ethernet Service Switch (ESS). The
solution is based on the Multiservice Integrated Service Adapter (MS-ISA) –
which extends the intelligence of the 7750 SR and 7450 ESS – in combination
with the 5670 Reporting and Analysis Manager (RAM), which provides extensive
tools and capabilities to analyse and process detailed, application-level
statistics per-subscriber.