Alcatel-Lucent Unveils Motive Big Network Analytics Solution

Alcatel-Lucent's Kindsight Security Analytics, which analyzes network traffic patterns to detect malware on customer's devices.

Alcatel-Lucent's Big Network Analytics Data Miner combines WNG analytics with circuit-switched voice and SMS data sources and select IT/OSS/BSS data — such as subscriber data plans, profile, and billing information — into a Big Data analytics infrastructure. It generates analysis useful to improving application and network performance; to answering marketing's questions about service usage; and to enhance customer care.

With ultra-broadband networks growing increasingly complex and virtualized to meet the always connected demands of customers, operators need to understand the impact of network changes. This might include introducing advanced services such as Voice-over LTE (VoLTE), addressing requests to access cloud applications and data, altering network congestion patterns, or optimizing video delivery. Motive Big Network Analytics can reveal how decisions will impact operators' resources, services and customers. Intelligence can be used to identify new customer, business and market opportunities. And its unique forensic services expertise can help operators capture, extract and analyze the data required to meet their individual requirements.

Andrew McDonald, President, IP Platforms Division, Alcatel-Lucent, said: "Our Motive Big Network Analytics solution combines key characteristics of Big Data and mobile network analytics. It allows service providers to internally leverage their greatest asset -- network data – to make better informed decisions about future deployments, service enhancements and network optimization. Leveraging this data complements operator Big Data projects by allowing them to more easily identify 'sweet spots' for market differentiation. In turn, it introduces more exciting services and a better experience for customers."

The Alcatel-Lucent Motive Big Network Analytics portfolio is already pre-integrated in a range of Alcatel-Lucent solutions:

Security Services: Kindsight Mobile Security enables operators to offer value-added, network-based security services to customers.

Customer Care: Motive ServiceView for Mobile cuts service call times and proactively solves issues to enhance the customer service experience.

Selective Traffic Optimization: Intelligent Traffic Management identifies congestion and selectively optimizes traffic to improve service quality and network efficiency.

Innovative Service Plans: Smart Plan enables subscribers to more easily discover, purchase and manage ultra-broadband services.

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