MURRAY HILL, N.J-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it won a contract to conduct a threat assessment of Europe’s wireless, wireline and Internet networks.
The contract, which was awarded by the 25-member state European Commission, calls on Lucent to perform a comprehensive analysis of the factors influencing Europe’s communications infrastructure and propose recommendations to ensure reliability and security of the infrastructure. The results of Lucent’s study are expected to provide a foundation for action by European policymakers and telecom companies in order to improve robustness of communications and Internet backbones.
“Electronic communications infrastructures support core tenets of a stable thriving society, such as national security, governance, public health and safety, economy, and essential services, such as transportation and power,” said Luis Eguiagaray, managing director of Lucent Worldwide Services for Europe. “In this contract, we will leverage the network reliability and security expertise of Bell Labs, the research and development arm of Lucent Technologies, and the multi-vendor network transformation expertise of Lucent Worldwide Services.”
Lucent said Bell Labs is currently performing a related project with the U.S. government’s Sandia National Labs to support the Department of Homeland Security by modeling and simulating the impact of significant communications disruptions on U.S. critical infrastructures.
“We are continually focused on designing and engineering next generation networks to the highest levels of robustness,” said Rati Thanawala, vice president of Bell Labs network planning, performance and economic analysis. “We are working on many advanced methods for improving network reliability and security. Some of these have been accepted as international standards and industry best practices and applied to European customers.”
