In April 2013, Alcatel-Lucent formally announced the formation of a new venture, Nuage Networks, to facilitate the growth of Software Defined Networking (SDN).
Houman Modarres, senior director of marketing at Nuage Networks, explained to Enterprise Networking Planet that in the last year, just over 30 customer trials have been conducted using the Nuage technology. Some of the initial launch customers, including UPMC, are now using Nuage in production.