In one of the world's fastest growing and most competitive telecom markets, Alcatel-Lucent stole the show at 15th Convergence India -South Asia's largest telecommunications events.  Alcatel-Lucent featured several product displays and co-sponsored Convergence 2007. The event attracted numerous participants from all over Asia, and some from Europe as well.

Alcatel-Lucent booth featured a lively demonstration of the auto-rickshaw - a local favorite in public transport, which became a favorite for all participants of the tradeshow! A symbol of 'Broadband for All', the auto-rickshaw was the perfect vehicle for representing the combination of Alcatel-Lucent's global WiMAX 16.e Infrastructure interoperating live with the C-dot Alcatel-Lucent End-User Equipment, demonstrating the end-to-end capabilities of our solution.  This End-User equipment, developed by the C-DOT Alcatel-Lucent Research Center in Chennai, is perfectly suited to offering access to voice or data services. The auto-rickshaw and its live WiMAX demo sent a strong message of the commercial availability of a global solution that caters to local market needs. "Emerging markets create the opportunity for Alcatel-Lucent to create new business models; and India is a key market for us to deploy these models with service providers," said John Giere, chief marketing officer, Alcatel-Lucent.

In addition to the live WiMAX demo, key solutions of Alcatel-Lucent targeting South Asia were also demonstrated, Competitive Transformation and Broadband for All: IMS community services, IPTV, IP MPLS as well as Unified Communications and IP Telephony for Enterprise.

Alcatel-Lucent had three speakers addressing three different subjects. The conference was inaugurated with John Giere discussing the how technological convergence can and should be deployed in the Indian context. Patrick Veron, CEO C-DOT Alcatel-Lucent Research Center presented Alcatel-Lucent's solution of WiMAX 16.e for the future needs of India - Urban and Rural. Rajeev Rastogi, executive director of Bell Labs Research India, delivered Thursday morning's session on Next Generation Telecom. 

The Key highlights of Live WiMAX Demo are as follows:

Alcatel-Lucent is the only WiMAX vendor to have a live WiMAX Rev.e demo in Convergence India 2007

· e-2-e WiMAX Rev.e set up include Alcatel-Lucent WiMAX base station (2.5GHz), WAC(ASN-GW), OMC-R(EMS), HA, CDOT ALcatel JV designed Indoor CPE in 2.5GHz,  Zyxel PCMCIA card & Zyxel indoor CPE in the 2.5GHz

· Three demo scenarios - Mobile Broadband, e-Governance & VoIP (PC to PC & using analog phone as well)
· Applications shown - Video streaming (both live video & video on demand), high speed internet access, VoIP & high speed FTP downloads.

· Mobile Broadband - Auto rickshaw with a laptop equipped with Zyxel WiMAX CMCIA data card showcasing mobile broadband connectivity to the visitors at Convergence India 2007.

·  e-Governance kiosk model- PC connected to C-DOT Alcatel Research Centre designed indoor CPE enabling high speed internet access for various e-Governance applications including access to some of the live e-governance applications on-Net.

· VoIP Demo - Voice Calls between (Analog phone +Zyxel Indoor CPE) to laptop equiped with Zyxel PCMCIA in auto rickshaw & Voice calls between (PC+PCMCIA) to (PC+PCMCIA) with mobility within the booth area using a SIP server through the WiMAX Rev.e Base station in access.

· Interoperability of Alcatel-Lucent WiMAX Rev.e Base station with three different form factors of WiMAX Rev.e CPE terminals from Zyxel & CDOT Alcatel JV was demonstrated

· Triple play services (Voice, Video & Data) were demonstrated successfully in an auto rickshaw on the Live WiMAX Rev.e platform operating in 2.5GHz using the PCMCIA equipped Laptop.

Sourced From: Mutual Public Relations