Alcatel-Lucent Exposed to Developers

Alcatel-Lucent wants to be the enabler of your new relationship with the application developer community. This week it introduced a trio of solutions to facilitate that relationship.

A new Application Exposure Suite, an Open API Service and a set of transformation services make up the company’s approach to content creation and application development. It provides a secure environment to help service providers open their networks to application developers and content providers in order to speed the creation of innovative Web 2.0 services for consumers and enterprises.

It plays on the trust factor service providers hold with their customers to expose information to app developers to create personalized services. These capabilities provide access to key service information, such as location, service preferences, billing relationships and more that make it easy for developers to create “mash-up” applications. These are apps that combine the functionality of service provider networks with Web-based capabilities.

The Exposure suite builds on Alcatel-Lucent's High Leverage Network architecture to help address the business, technical and operational challenges faced by service providers, developers and enterprises as they create, manage and market new applications.

Elisabeth Rainge, director at IDC, said Alcatel-Lucent has found an elegant way to help service providers and application and content providers benefit from the new model of application development, merging network capabilities with the agility and ingenuity of thousands of Web developers. "The company’s holistic end-to-end approach to application enablement can help service providers to reassert their value proposition in the Web 2.0 value chain and beyond," she said.

Johnson Agogbua, vice president of Global Application Enablement solutions at Alcatel-Lucent, said exposing a set of capabilities and intelligence within their network and their systems to developers allows them to rapidly mash up information from different sources and deliver new experiences to users. “There is a very trusted relationship between the service provider and user. They already have extensive billing relationships and deliver several services so already show they have trust when sharing information with developers,” he said.