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Lucent Technologies Unveils Subscriber Data Management Solution to Support 'Blended Lifestyle' Services

Posted on: Monday, 14 March 2005, 09:00 CST

NEW ORLEANS, March 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- At the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA) Wireless 2005 trade show and exhibition today, Lucent Technologies unveiled the latest version of its Bell Labs-developed Super-Distributed Home Location Register (SDHLR), part of Lucent's Accelerate(TM) Next Generation Communications Solutions portfolio. The new Lucent SDHLR -- an integral element of Lucent's IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) solution -- enables service providers to manage subscriber data across a variety of wireless and wireline networks, supports the delivery of "lifestyle" services that blend voice, data and video capabilities, and helps service providers deliver an unparalleled end-user experience, increase customer satisfaction and reduce customer churn.

The Lucent SDHLR maintains critical information such as subscriber profiles and user location, and manages tasks such as user authentication for both voice and data services. It also enables a single sign-on for all services and applications, supports simple provisioning of new services and ensures that subscribers always have access to all of their services when they roam outside of their home network.

"Our objective is to help service providers make communications simple, seamless, secure, personal and portable for their customers and this newest version of the SDHLR plays a critical role in delivering on that promise," said J.J. Lhospital, vice president, Applications Solutions product management, Lucent Techologies. "By leveraging the new SDHLR, as well as our recently announced IMS 'Service Enhancement Layer,' Lucent is providing operators with a powerful, simple and cost-effective IMS platform that stands above the competition, and makes it easy for service providers to integrate existing applications into the IMS environment and introduce new Value Over IP(TM) services."

The SDHLR enables the establishment of unified customer profiles and centralized subscriber authentication -- independent of what type of access method is used -- and therefore can support global roaming across multiple network types including third-generation (3G) CDMA2000(R) and UMTS/W-CDMA and 2G mobile networks, as well as WiFi and wireline networks. It also provides the Home Subscriber Server (HSS) functionality for networks incorporating IMS, can provide the HLR functionality in new and legacy networks, and supports the authentication, authorization, accounting (AAA) capabilities required for WiFi networks. For service providers with mixed overlay networks, the SDHLR allows for roaming without requiring external gateways.

"Our recent Bell Labs innovations have taken the product well beyond the traditional HLR functionality to providing critical mobility management and unified subscriber profile data across both circuit-switched and packet-based networks," said Krishan Sabnani, senior vice president of Bell Labs Networking Research. "This will enable service providers to easily offer services across multiple access networks and multiple devices, including emerging dual-mode Wi-Fi/3G handsets."

The SDHLR's single, open interface for subscriber management, administration and back-office support also can help service providers realize savings of up to 50 percent on operational costs. Competing solutions offer AAA, HSS, and HLR products as independent entities with separate management and administration capabilities, thereby forcing service providers to deploy multiple platforms to maintain subscriber information across wireless, wireline and IP networks. The SDHLR, in contrast, provides very large database capabilities, and also can access other data stores elsewhere in the network in a centralized fashion, offering significant operational and capital efficiencies.

The SDHLR runs on Lucent's new MiLife(R) Application Server, a combined server and service node that enables network operators to bring innovative, IP-based communications services to market quickly and cost-effectively. The MiLife Application Server supports a wide range of service modules, making it easy for existing Lucent SDHLR customers to upgrade their solution to support new features.

To complete the offering, Lucent Worldwide Services, one of the world's leading network solutions integrators, can support the seamless migration of a service provider's existing network to the new SDHLR with its network integration services to enable consistent management and administration of subscriber data.

Lucent is conducting demonstrations of the new SDHLR in its booth (#2245) at the CTIA Wireless 2005 show, taking place in New Orleans, March 14-16.

About Lucent Technologies

Lucent Technologies designs and delivers the systems, services and software that drive next-generation communications networks. Backed by Bell Labs research and development, Lucent uses its strengths in mobility, optical, software, data and voice networking technologies, as well as services, to create new revenue-generating opportunities for its customers, while enabling them to quickly deploy and better manage their networks. Lucent's customer base includes communications service providers, governments and enterprises worldwide. For more information on Lucent Technologies, which has headquarters in Murray Hill, N.J., USA, visit http://www.lucent.com/.

Lucent Technologies

CONTACT: Ichiro Kawasaki, +1-973-386-3479 (office), or +1 973-477-4793(mobile), kawasaki@lucent.com, or Kurt Steinert, +1-973-386-8438 (office),+1-908-285-1641 (mobile), ksteinert@lucent.com, both of Lucent Technologies

Web site: http://www.lucent.com/

Source: PRNewswire-FirstCall

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