With its new-found focus on IP networking and fast broadband access, Alcatel-Lucent is poised to take advantage of a worldwide explosion in mobile devices and the rush of service providers and operators to the cloud, company executives said at the networking vendor’s tech symposium this week.
At the conference, ending Friday, Alcatel-Lucent executives fleshed out for analysts and media the strategy behind the “Shift” plan to morph the company from a general supplier of telecom equipment into what it has called an “industrial specialist.”