Case Study
Alcatel-Lucent
Telecommunications company powers
next-generation cloud environments with
Citrix® CloudPlatform™
A global telecommunications company that helps service providers
migrate their networks to the cloud offers a highly scalable, reliable and
secure solution based on Citrix CloudPlatform.
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“CloudPlatform gave us the best of both worlds: a strong open
source community, and the support of a proven company like Citrix.”
Idan Mor
Senior Director, Strategic Alliances, Cloud Business Unit, Alcatel-Lucent
“CloudPlatform eliminates the need for unique, dedicated
hardware. Because applications aren’t dependent on a specific
type of hardware, commodity servers and other devices can be
replaced easily without disrupting operations—in effect, replacing
the airplane’s engine without ever having to land.”
Idan Mor
Senior Director, Strategic Alliances, Cloud Business Unit, Alcatel-Lucent
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Industry
Telecommunications
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Key benefits
• Reduces costs for cloud services
and environments
• Introduces new services more
quickly, at lower risk
• Maximizes customer value through
an open, flexible cloud platform
Alcatel-Lucent is at the forefront of global
communications. The company provides
products and service innovations in Internet
Protocol (IP) and cloud networking, as well as
ultra-broadband fixed and wireless access. Its
customers include service providers, enterprises
and institutions throughout the world. The
Alcatel-Lucent Cloud Innovation Center (CIC) in
Naperville, Ill., helps telecom service providers
meet the demands of their customers for new
features and increased network capacity.
The challenge: Eliminating the need for
dedicated, service-specific telecom hardware
To avoid the cost and maintenance of
dedicated hardware environments for each of
its partners, Alcatel-Lucent needed an efficient
cloud orchestration solution to power its virtual
network platform, Alcatel-Lucent CloudBand.
This would make it possible to run multiple
services on a common platform, allowing for a
more efficient operational model and a
reduction of service innovation cycles.
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The solution: Providing rapidly deployable,
open cloud environments with
virtualization technology
Alcatel-Lucent chose to integrate Citrix
CloudPlatform with its CloudBand solution to
build the open, vendor-neutral platform its
customers needed. “CloudPlatform gave us the
best of both worlds: a strong open source
community, and the support of a proven
company like Citrix,” says Idan Mor, senior
director of strategic alliances at the Cloud
Business Unit at Alcatel-Lucent. Citrix
CloudPlatform makes it possible to deploy a
distributed cloud, connected into a single
holistic network with a unified management
experience. With Citrix CloudPlatform, an
automated, structured rack of servers providing
a complete cloud environment can be
unpacked and provisioned in less than two
hours to support a fully automated productionlevel deployment.
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Key benefit: Reducing costs for cloud
services and environments
Citrix CloudPlatform helps Alcatel-Lucent and
its customers reduce expense and complexity
by making it possible to run any kind of service
on the same common infrastructure.
“CloudPlatform eliminates the need for unique,
dedicated hardware. Because applications
aren’t dependent on a specific type of
hardware, commodity servers and other devices
can be replaced easily without disrupting
operations—in effect, replacing the airplane’s
engine without ever having to land,” says Mor.
The solution also reduces operating expenses
by simplifying management. “With
CloudPlatform, a single IT person can manage
thousands of servers because they’re all the
same, compared with the 1:10 ratio you would
need to manage apps running on dedicated
servers,” says Mor.
seamlessly. Alcatel-Lucent developers use the
platform to experiment with their own services
and identify new features and refinements to
better meet customer needs. To promote the
deployment of platforms and solutions on
CloudBand, Alcatel-Lucent launched the
CloudBand Ecosystem program, which provides
a common, open environment for collaboration
by Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
vendors and service providers.
Key benefit: Introducing new services more
quickly, at lower risk
In the past, launching new telecom and cloud
services required providers to provision
dedicated hardware scaled for peak capacity,
an acquisition process that could take six to
nine months. “In the cloud world, service
providers need to be able to create new
services quickly, scale them if they work, and
shut them down if they don’t,” says Mor. “With
CloudBand and CloudPlatform, any service can
be deployed on the same common platform
and commodity hardware, speeding time to
market and scalability.” If a service fails to meet
expectations, its supporting infrastructure can
be reallocated to a new service quickly and
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Key benefit: Maximizing customer value
through an open, flexible cloud platform
“Forcing customers to run their cloud operation
on a specific platform would undermine much
of the value of moving to the cloud. With
CloudBand and CloudPlatform, we can offer an
end-to-end solution that leverages the full
power of the open source community,” says
Mor. Citrix CloudPlatform complements this
openness with a high degree of flexibility and
control over the placement of individual cloud
workloads based on network loads as well as
policies, such as the need for a given workload
to reside within a specific geography.
Looking ahead
To extend the capabilities of its CloudBand
platform and meet new customer needs,
Alcatel-Lucent is evaluating the deployment of
solutions such as Citrix NetScaler® and Citrix
ByteMobile®. “Other solutions couldn’t meet the
demands of telecom service providers,” says
Mor. “With Citrix, we can stay true to our
customers by offering the features, performance
and open source flexibility they require.”
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