{"id":7017,"date":"2013-04-17T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2013\/apr\/17\/alcatel-lucent-enterprise-expands-its-cloud-vision\/"},"modified":"2013-04-17T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T14:30:00","slug":"alcatel-lucent-enterprise-expands-its-cloud-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/alcatel-lucent-enterprise-expands-its-cloud-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise expands its cloud vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Brian Riggs, Principal Analyst, Enterprise<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Through 2013 Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (ALU-E) will roll out a set of solutions on which its partners can offer a range of hosted unified communications (UC) services. The company&rsquo;s strategy is different to those of its competitors in that it will deliver separate solutions for enterprises and SMBs, as well as a set of application services. <\/p>\n<p>These will be offered to operators, and also sold to value-added resellers and distributors that want to compete not only against telcos&rsquo; managed services but hosted services as well.<\/p>\n<p>ALU-E&rsquo;s hosted UC platform for enterprise-grade services became available earlier this year, with a handful of partners offering services based on it. The SMB platform and application service are in a less mature state; both are still in development, and no service provider partners are associated with them as yet. ALU-E is in a similar position to Avaya, which &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Riggs, Principal Analyst, EnterpriseThrough 2013 Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (ALU-E) will roll out a set of solutions on which its partners can offer a range of hosted unified communications (UC) services. The company&rsquo;s strategy is different &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}