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United States : Third new Bell Labs research facility to open in Silicon Valley focused on cloud and SDN [TendersInfo (India)](TendersInfo (India) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Alcatel-Lucent s Bell Labs is to open a new antenna office in the heart of US technological innovation Silicon Valley. A team of Bell Labs researchers will be co-located at Alcatel-Lucent s site in Mountain View and will conduct focused, globally-orientated research aimed at evolving networks to deliver new cloud-based applications and services. In the past networks have been designed only to deliver specific and discreet services like voice and data. In the emerging cloud-based services era, networks have to be designed and optimized for both the delivery of traditional offerings but also for new as-yet-unknown services. SDN will play a critical role in the way networks of the future are built. Alcatel-Lucent s Bell Labs maintains a leading role in research and innovation with a focus on how networks should evolve based on the changing behaviors and demands of the end user. Research at antenna locations such as that in Silicon Valley contributes to this overall objective by centering on one major industry issue. These smaller, highly-specialized locations foster a more nimble start-up like environment to allow researchers to actively engage with Alcatel-Lucent s businesses, other Bell Labs researchers and external stakeholders such as enterprises, universities and other research organizations. The Silicon Valley center will be the third Bell Labs antenna office to open this year, following the opening of the Cambridge video facility in the UK in July, and the Bell Labs virtualization research facility in Israel which opened in May. The antenna will be led by Bell Labs Consulting SDN/NFV group leader Sanjay Kamat who, in his previous role, was responsible for strategy and operations of the Bell Labs Advisory Services practice focused on techno-economic issues related to emerging technologies. He has a PhD in Computer Science from Texas A&M University and MBA from Columbia University. Bell Labs continues to conduct innovative and game-changing research around the big issues affecting the ICT industry. Using its wide-reaching expertise and collaborating with the global innovation community (both inside and outside of Bell Labs), Bell Labs is focused on finding solutions that offer a 10x (or more) improvement for the industry. These solutions will then be used to create cross-discipline Future X initiatives that will shape the future communications landscape. To accelerate innovation in this field, the Bell Labs Prize was launched in June. The first winner will be announced in December of 2014. This prize gives any researcher, in a participating country around the globe, the chance to introduce their innovative idea to the world and collaborate with Bell Labs researchers. (c) 2014 Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by SyndiGate Media Inc. (Syndigate.info). |