This white paper examines the following topics:
- The value proposition of LTE as a means to support next-generation train-to-wayside communications (TWC) for urban train operations
- The challenges involved in adopting LTE technology
- How the Alcatel-Lucent LTE-based TWC solution meets the requirements for next-generation TWC
- Strategies for overcoming the challenges involved in adopting LTE

Network Transformation with IP/MPLS
Main line and urban railway operators rely heavily on their communications networks to operate safely and efficiently. These railway operators have traditionally deployed separate networks to support different applications using Synchronous Digital Hierarchy/ Synchronous Optical Network (SDH/SONET)-based time division multiplexing (TDM) network technologies. Alcatel-Lucent delivers a converged IP/Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)-based communications network for railway operators using next-generation products and advanced management tools.

Virtual machine mobility management in an application fluent data center network.
This paper presents an overview of the Alcatel-Lucent VMware solution. It outlines the key features of the solution and the benefits it provides to enterprise data center operators. And it describes how the solution streamlines physical and virtual network management and maintenance by enabling more effective virtual machine location, motion, synchronization and tracking.

Scheduling with the Virtual Observer Community Workforce Management is one of the most powerful and competitively distinctive features within the product. Like all processes within the Virtual Observer Community solution, the scheduling pipeline is wizard driven.

A constellation of business requirements places new demands on IT professionals. The rapid speed with which the corporate operating environment moves has been well documented. Messaging middleware has transformed the way applications communicate and exchange information. Application integration has brought about significant advantages; however it has also brought about a need to track intangible, transient digital assets – business transactions. As the IT complexity grows, compliance and integration needs have also evolved.

Since IBM released two versions of WebSphere MQ in close proximity to each other, it is important to understand how to best utilize the benefits of both versions and how to get them to work together with previous versions. This white paper will give you a better understanding of how to get them to all get along.

In the Overview white paper, we discussed the key highlights of multiple version support for WebSphere MQ 7.1 and 7.5. In this paper, we are going to go into more detail. Let’s review the meaning of coexistence multiple installatioon. The key component is that you can install multiple versions of WebSphere MQ on the same server at the same time. This is something that you could not do in the past.

WebSphere MQ was developed in the early 1990’s to fill a need in many applications for Asynchronous Application to Application Communication. This concept is still a primary requirement of many applications, including Service Oriented Architecture and Cloud computing. Much like email provides asynchronous communication between individuals, WebSphere MQ provided the ability for applications on disparate platforms to communicate easier than ever before, even across companies. Many applications were designed to leverage the wealth of data stored on legacy systems without needing to rewrite the interfaces to that data or to disperse it to multiple systems.

Over 95% of the Fortune 1000 companies use WebSphere MQ for their messaging system. In fact, it is the most popular system for messaging across multiple platforms (85% market share). This paper reviews and summarizes the highlights of the recent releases of IBM’s WebSphere MQ 7.1 and 7.5. It is the first in a series of papers around the current changes in WebSphere MQ.

DevOps is a hot topic right now, and for good reason. Today’s application environments have become far too complex to deploy and manage with silo teams and stand-alone tools. Instead, they require coordination and collaboration across virtually all silos, and this is typically accomplished with teams of senior specialists with skill sets spanning Development and Operations. Tools play a key role in DevOps, as the right tools can be a bridge supplying a “common language” across teams with diverse skillsets and “technology languages.”

The complexity of one management system per messaging infrastructure is too costly and when these infrastructures are interconnected, the management systems become ineffective. These firms require one place to monitor, visualize and analyze the status of applications and services shared across the enterprise environment. However, the skill set required to manage each middleware technology is often different and a single business flow can traverse multiple different transports and support teams. This makes unified monitoring of messages across the infrastructure and the ability to track them and rapidly identify and correct problems anywhere in that flow an essential element in improving service and reducing cost—perhaps, even a necessity for survival