PARIS -- Thanks to new capabilities from Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) enterprises can now make it easier for their employees to use their personal devices – such as smartphones and tablets – to access both personal and professional content and services while at work, with a high quality experience and without compromising the integrity of their corporate networks. The company’s expanding converged network solution is now able to identify what kinds of applications are being used by employees at different times, and give the most critical services priority to ensure a high quality user experience.

These new developments bring to life an entirely new approach to enterprise networking that Alcatel-Lucent refers to as “Application Fluency”. Application Fluency provides a network the ability to identify what device and application are being used – and by whom - and recognize if it is a critical business application which requires a specific level of quality of service (QoS), reserved bandwidth or if it can simply be given “best effort” treatment.

The Alcatel-Lucent Converged Network Solution is expanding today with the introduction of the Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch™ 6450, substantially increasing the access capacity of enterprise networks, and the introduction of new capabilities for enterprise networks to more effectively manage network resources.

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