Alcatel-Lucent Continues to Make Strides Globally And Regionally

Alcatel-Lucent placed as “Visionary” in the Magic Quadrant for Data Center Network Infrastructure

Bangkok, Mar 22, 2013 – (ACN Newswire) – Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise has been placed as a Visionary in Gartner Inc.’s “Magic Quadrant for the Data Center Network Infrastructure” report by Tim Zimmerman and Mark Fabbi, published on February 11, 2013. The report qualifies a Visionary by its demonstrated ability “to increase the features in its offering, to provide a unique and differentiated approach to the market. A Visionary has innovated in one or more of the key areas of data center infrastructure, such as management (including virtualization), security (including policy enforcement), SDN and operational efficiency, as well as cost reductions.”

The report comes as a result of growing focus on the core and data center segments of the network, which are expected to have low latency in their delivery of virtual applications.

Last year Gartner placed Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise’s Networking products in the Visionaries quadrant of its report, “Magic Quadrant for the Wired and Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure” published on June 13, 2012.

Sathit Panpaisan, Country Manager, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise said, “Being recognized as a Visionary by Gartner is proof of our commitment to delivering the most innovative solutions to our customers to allow them to realize the full benefits of technology. Since we launched our Application Fluent Network (AFN) vision in 2010, we have helped businesses uncover the full benefits of virtualization and workload automation.”

Alcatel-Lucent continues to make strides in the market with its Applications Fluent Network approach, gaining significant wins at a diverse set of customers, including the California State University system, DHL Belgium and Cap Gemini China.

To read the complete Gartner report, please go to:
http://enterprise.alcatel-lucent.com/?dept=Editorials&page=2013GartnerDataCenterMQ

– Alcatel-Lucent was the fastest growing Data Center Switching vendor in Q3’2012

In a report by Infonetics Research, titled “Data Center Network Equipment, Quarterly Worldwide and Regional Market Share Size and Forecast, 3Q12”, issued on December 10, 2012, Alcatel-Lucent outperformed all other vendors with its revenue growing by nearly 31% from Q2’2012, compared to a marginal market growth of just 0.7%.

According to Sam Barnett, Directing Analyst for Data Center and Cloud, Infonetics Research, “Alcatel-Lucent has the top spot among its competitors in terms of percentage revenue growth quarter-over-quarter worldwide in Q3’2012. Only one other vendor saw double digit growth from Q2 to Q3, with the rest in the low single digits or even negative.”

Contributing to this growth were Alcatel-Lucent’s market-leading data center and cloud solutions, including the award-winning OmniSwitch 10K Modular LAN Chassis, the OmniSwitch 6900 Stackable LAN switch, the OmniSwitch 6850E Stackable LAN switch and the OmniVista management platform.

– Alcatel-Lucent continues to grow market share in Wired and Wireless LAN Networking

The recently released Dell’Oro “Ethernet Switch Quarterly Report 3Q12” reveals Alcatel-Lucent as the fastest growing Ethernet LAN vendor for the Q3’2012 quarter in terms of port growth with an increase of 18% over Q2’2012. For the same period, the market saw growth of less than 1%.

According to the report, Alcatel-Lucent continues to improve their position in a very challenging and competitive environment, growing its revenue by over 2% while the industry declined nearly 5%.

Another report by Dell’Oro, the “Wireless LAN Quarterly Report 3Q12”, shows Alcatel-Lucent as the fastest growing supplier in the largest Enterprise-class segment of the Wireless LAN market; Dependent Access Points. According to the report, Alcatel-Lucent’s strong sales of Dependent Access Points pushed its overall revenue from Wireless LAN sales to exceed the industry average, growing at a rate of 11.5% against industry average growth of 4.5%.

About Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise provides communication solutions and services to businesses of all sizes. Currently serving more than 250,000 customers across its enterprise portfolio, Alcatel-Lucent enables enterprises to change the conversation that is being driven by consumers and the consumerization of IT in business.

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