Telecom giant Alcatel-Lucent this week acquired privately held NetDevices, a maker of services gateways primarily for smaller, but increasingly feature-rich branch office networks.
NetDevices' Unified Services Gateway helps smaller enterprises and branch offices deliver a converged communications infrastructure encompassing voice, data and security services. By packaging up a "branch-office-in-a-box," NetDevices aims to deliver enterprise-class communications services while minimizing the deployment and management challenges.
Alcatel-Lucent's acquisition would seem to validate the opportunity in providing smaller enterprises with easy-to-manage voice- and data-switching capabilities.
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Subsea cable alternatives can provide a level of comfort for those concerned about disruptions. Realistically, they will continue to play a small, but critical role in the short term.
Maintaining existing network infrastructures often incurs huge technical debt before newer technologies are adopted over time.
Amid ongoing regional uncertainties, telecom infrastructure in the Middle East has expand to include terrestrial low-latency network infrastructure, which offers resilience and agility in navigating political complexities without relying solely on undersea networks.
