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The marriage of mobility and the Internet promises to define the way people view connectivity forever. As devices become intelligent personal mini-computers, consumers will have the full power of the Internet at their fingertips anywhere and anytime, dramatically shaping the way they manage their everyday lives. No more clearly is this playing out than in mobile commerce, giving our highly mobilized society the ability to pay bills or purchase goods and services on the go. This has the potential to unleash an entirely new economic model, and mobile operators are well positioned to take advantage of this lucrative market, which represents billions of transactions and revenues going forward.
The telecom industry is inarguably moving toward all-IP to meet user and enterprise demand for always-on services and capitalize on the cost savings available from a converged, common infrastructure. Alcatel-Lucent has formalized a vision for this transformation and converted that vision into a practical, comprehensive methodology resulting in the Transformation Advantage Framework™
It's not too soon to start talking about 100 Gig networks, but Verizon's director of backbone network design says it's only worth using where it actually reduces the cost per bit
