TechRepublic Resources
- Hilton Hotels in Africa Delights Guests With Specialist alcatel Voice Solution
- With 98 percent brand awareness worldwide, Hilton must surely be the best-known name in the hospitality business. It has become synonymous with the highest standards in luxury and service, delivered consistently across its global network of 499 hotels. To maintain that reputation, Hilton pays minute attention to perfecting every detail...
- Tags: Hilton Hotels Corp., Alcatel, Branding, VOIP, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Marketing, Networking
- Case studies
- Sogecable Evolves to IP Telephony
- The consolidation of Sogecable as an enterprise group was definitive for the high technical executives of the company to reorganise its Communication and Information Technologies (CIT) under a project frame of global streamlining. The CIT project from a more basic foundation, cabling and network electronics needed to give a high...
- Tags: Telephony, IP Telephony, IP, Alcatel, Sogecable, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking
- Case studies
- Brighton Pavilion/Dome Gets a Makeover and an alcatel Solution!
- The newly refurbished Brighton Dome, restored to its art-deco glory, after a multi-million pound renovation project is now the leading arts and conference venue in the South. With such an important restoration taking place, it was natural that only the best in modern technology was being sought. There was a...
- Tags: Alcatel, Brighton Pavilion/Dome, Call Centers, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies
- Ocala's alcatel Network Provides City and County Government With Non-Stop Services and Secure Communications
- The Ocala Electric Utility (Ocala), located in Marion County Florida, has been in operation since 1898. Ocala wanted to implement several services such as Internet access, voice over IP (VoIP), and wireless applications to enhance the operations of the public and private services within the county and the City of...
- Tags: Network, Alcatel, Ocala, Telephony, VOIP, Government, Telecommunications, Networking, Wireless
- Case studies
- Professional Services Security Success Story: Latin American Supermarket Chain
- As part of the Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance and review process, a large Latin American Supermarket Chain was required to confirm its level of security from external attacks. It had no clear information regarding its external exposure to and threats from Internet-based attacks. Lucent performed an in-depth assessment to...
- Tags: Lucent Technologies Inc., Payment, Professional Services, Alcatel, Internet, Operational Accounting, Security, Finance
- Case studies
- Chicago's Metropolitan Community Hosts Illinois's Largest Full-Service Health Care Company, Advocate Health Care
- As the second largest employer in Illinois, Advocate's 24,500 associates have been providing quality, caring, and compassionate medical services by creating one of the best health care networks in the United States. The challenge was to deploy a single telephony standard throughout the entire Advocate infrastructure without completely disrupting its...
- Tags: Illinois, Health Care, Alcatel, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
- Case studies
- Towards an Information Theory of Large Networks: An Achievable Rate Region
- This paper studies communication networks of arbitrary size and topology and communicating over a general vector discrete memoryless channel. The paper proposes an information-theoretic constructive scheme for obtaining an achievable rate region in such networks. Many well-known capacity-defining achievable rate regions can be derived as special cases of the proposed...
- Tags: Channel, Theory, Network, Alcatel, Networking
- White papers
- alcatel and NextiraOne Keep EU Ministers Talking During the Italian Presidency
- Telecom Italia, the official technology partner during the Italian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, chose NextiraOne, Alcatel's Premium Business Partner, to supply voice networks for a series of events taking place across Italy. Alcatel and NextiraOne were asked to implement voice networks to serve European Journalists and...
- Tags: NextiraOne, Alcatel, Networking
- Case studies
- Application and Infrastructure Challenges in Pervasive Computing
- The technological advances over the last few years has revolutionized the world of personal computing. Off late handheld devices exist that can function as a cellular phone, video camera and a PDA, all in one box. Also, wireless service providers have started offering numerous data services over their networks (e.g.,...
- Tags: Lucent Technologies Inc., Computing, Alcatel, PDAs, Handhelds, Hardware
- White papers
- Abstracting C With abC
- A conceptually simple and practically very useful form of data abstraction in model checking is variable hiding, which amounts to suppressing all information about a given set of variables. The abC tool automates this for programs written in the C programming language. It features an integrated demand-driven pointer analysis, and...
- Tags: Lucent Technologies Inc., C, Alcatel, abC Tool, C/C++, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers
- ACACIA: A Certificate-Based Access-Controlled Internet Architecture
- The current Internet architecture supports open connectivity, i.e., any host can send traffic to any other host. This has resulted in a number of security problems such as Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks, worms etc. This paper proposes ACACIA - A Certificate-based Access-Controlled Internet Architecture. In ACACIA, a source must first...
- Tags: Lucent Technologies Inc., Alcatel, Access Control Infrastructure, Internet, Security
- White papers
- HP Case Study: alcatel
- HP and Alcatel have combined their experience and communication/application solutions to create a single integrated package that allows service providers to offer a complete end-to-end system to the enterprise market. This HP-Alcatel solution, Easy Office, enables service providers to confidently launch value-added services to address the communication and IT needs...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Alcatel, Smb/Sme, Business Services, Data Centers, Service Level Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, It Operations, It service Management
- Case studies
- Information-Theoretic Multi-Hopping for Relay Networks
- Recent advances in multi-hopping are extended to relay networks having multiple antennas and multiple sources. As for the single-antenna and single-source case, one can achieve the ergodic capacity of wireless relay networks with phase fading if the relays are in a region near the source terminal, and if phase information...
- Tags: Lucent Technologies Inc., Network, Alcatel, Networking
- White papers
- The BEST Challenge for Next-Generation Ethernet Services
- Service providers are starting to offer next-generation E-Line (point-to-point) and E-LAN (multipoint-to-multipoint) Ethernet services over their existing SONET/SDH networks. While Ethernet typically is "Best-effort", these emerging services are expected to be "Carrier-class" with strict bandwidth guarantees. Consequently, spanning tree creation, critical to any Ethernet network is fundamentally changed; each tree...
- Tags: Lucent Technologies Inc., Alcatel, Service, Ethernet, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers
- Joint Channel Assignment and Routing for Throughput Optimization in Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks
- Infrastructure Wireless Mesh Networks (IWMNs) are increasingly been deployed for commercial use and law enforcement. These deployment settings place stringent requirements on the performance of the underlying IWMNs. Bandwidth guarantee is one of the most important requirements of applications in these settings. For these IWMNs, topology change is infrequent and...
- Tags: Lucent Technologies Inc., Bandwidth, Optimization, Goal, Alcatel, Mesh Networking, Networking
- White papers
- alcatel e-Business Networking Division Achieves 50% Inventory Reduction in a Declining Revenue Environment by Changing to Direct Order Fulfillment Business Model
- Alcatel e-Business Networking Division (Alcatel eND) delivers standards-based IP communications solutions to a global customer base of over 500,000 companies. Alcatel eND faced an increasingly competitive business environment that required the company to transform its business model from traditional manufacturing to pure outsourcing. As it switched from a build-to-forecast approach...
- Tags: Revenue, Oracle Corp., Network, Environment, Alcatel, Alcatel e-Business Networking Division, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Online Communications, Outsourcing, Enterprise Software, Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
- Case studies
- BMCC Selects alcatel to Aid Network Recovery After 9/11
- Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) opened in 1964 as a small, primarily business-oriented community college. Located in New York City, BMCC was directly affected by the attacks on the World Trade Center. When the twin towers collapsed, BMCC suffered damage to a building on campus, losing its data network....
- Tags: Recovery, Network, Alcatel, 9/11 Commission, BMCC, LANs, Networking
- Case studies
- Gordon College Deploys the alcatel OmniAccess 4100 WLAN
- Gordon College, founded in 1889, is located in Wenham, Massachusetts on nearly 500 acres of lakes and woodlands. Gordon College found itself being outpaced by high schools that had deployed wireless networks. The solution implemented had to be flexible to facilitate future upgrades and support of new products. The college...
- Tags: Network, WLAN, Alcatel, Networking, Wireless LANs, Wireless, Wi-Fi
- Case studies
- Bank Leader Chose to Converge Voice and Data Networks Onto a Single Platform to Greatly Improve Client Care
- Credit Agricole offers the most diverse banking services found anywhere in the Pyrenees/Gascogne region. Such responsibilities is one of many reasons CA selected a converged voice and data network to improve reliability, manageability and information access of its communication network. Because of its steady growth over the past years, CA...
- Tags: Bank, Data Network, Network, Voice, Alcatel, Credit Agricole, Banking, VOIP, Networking, Telecommunications, Financial Services
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- Effective Computation of Biased Quantiles Over Data Streams
- Skew is prevalent in many data sources such as IP traffic streams. To continually summarize the distribution of such data, a high-biased set of quantiles (e.g., 50th, 90th and 99th percentiles) with finer error guarantees at higher ranks (e.g., errors of 5, 1 and 0.1 percent, respectively) is more useful...
- Tags: Lucent Technologies Inc., Computation, Alcatel
- White papers
