In acquiring Alcatel-Lucent last year for $16.5 billion, Nokia garnered a significant number of telecommunications software-based assets, including the firms Nuage Networks division.
Alcatel-Lucent launched Nuage in early 2013, with a focus on software-defined networking. Nuage’s first product was virtualization for data centers, although the company also announced plans to target SDN solutions for health care, banking, utilities and other enterprise verticals, as well as large internet-based companies and telecom service providers.
