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Alcatel-Lucent Unveils Enhanced Cloud-DVR & CDN Platform to Support Growth of Video Content

Alcatel-Lucent Unveils Enhanced Cloud-DVR & CDN Platform to Support Growth of Video Content Image Credit: Alcatel Lucent

Alcatel-Lucent, this week has unveiled the enhanced version of its IP video storage, Cloud DVR platform and the new Elastic Content Delivery Network to help service providers to manage network capacity more dynamically as they deal with ever-growing customer demand. The UK TV, broadband, phone and mobile provider, TalkTalk, has already tested components of the enhanced Cloud DVR in a live network environment, said Alcatel-Lucent.

According to Alcatel-Lucent, the enhanced Cloud DVR platform incorporates a number of advances in storage resulting from Alcatel-Lucent’s collaboration with Intel Corporation, and using the Intel Intelligent Storage Acceleration Library (ISA-L). At the same time, the new cloud-based Elastic CDN allows resources to be allocated more flexibly, such as during a major sporting event or incident, where the provider can dynamically provision virtualized machines quickly and cache popular content closer to users to better manage video traffic over the networks. 

Bev Crair, Vice President Data Center Group, General Manager Storage of Intel
The digital service economy ushered in by the agility and efficiency of cloud computing is driving great demand for innovative storage solutions. Intel’s collaboration with Alcatel-Lucent on Cloud DVR is an example of our work with the industry to ensure that efficient storage solutions fully optimized for Intel architecture are fueling the next generation of digital service innovation.

Paul Larbey, head of Alcatel-Lucent’s IP Video business
Our IP Video portfolio help customers better manage the changes in traffic that they are seeing as their subscribers move away from the set top box to viewing on demand video over a variety of connected devices. Using in-house expertise and working with market leaders such as Intel, we can help providers deliver video content more intelligently and efficiently to dramatically improve the end-user experience in line with demand without increasing costs.

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