The High Leverage Network™

The High Leverage Network (HLN) is a near-term network vision developed by LGS Innovations’ parent company, Alcatel-Lucent; it focuses on the transformation to an all-IP network that enables the delivery of new services to agency personnel as well as the citizens they serve, while increasing capacity and reducing costs. An HLN enables continuously scalable bandwidth at the lowest cost per bit while simultaneously building in the network intelligence to create and deliver new real-time multimedia services. At the same time, HLN leverages the embedded intelligence in the network to enable the creation and delivery of differentiated services that optimize network traffic and provide enhanced end-user Quality of Experience (QoE).

HLN offers both a model for the network of tomorrow and a framework for evolving to it while tackling the urgent challenges of today. The HLN architecture:

The improved Web experience delivered by an HLN is secure, reliable, and collaborative, and provides a high level of QoE over any device, anywhere, anytime.

• Offers an all-IP network with embedded intelligence, optimized to support continuous bandwidth scaling and expansion combined with lowest cost-per-bit delivery
• Provides a consistent, optimized network foundation that delivers differentiated services to any device via any mode of access – anywhere and at any time — with the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO), reduced time to market, and faster return on investment
• Leverages leading innovations in broadband (wireline and wireless), IP, and optics, and embraces legacy and multivendor environments to provide an integrated approach to respond to changing networking and communications needs

HLN anticipates that most U.S. Federal Government agencies will move to an IMS (IP Media Subsystem) infrastructure at some point in the future, in which case Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) can be reduced even further through the use of common session control and subscriber data. Hidden costs associated, for example, with floor space and the real estate occupied by legacy network equipment can be dramatically reduced.

An HLN provides the U.S. Federal Government with the following network and communications benefits:

• • High bandwidth: Delivering the applications and content government agency end-users want, where they want – over wireline and wireless infrastructures and in a way that scales for future growth
  • Scalability and elasticity: Expanding and contracting dynamically to meet government agency and end-user requirements at minimum marginal cost
  • Reliability and resilience: Enabling always-on, nonstop services and applications that work transparently around failures with no disruption to end-users
  • Cost effectiveness: Providing maximum capability at optimum CAPEX while reducing OPEX through the greatest possible operational efficiencies and technical innovations
  • Eco-sustainability: Realizing bottom- and top-line benefits across the network while dramatically reducing the environmental footprint
  • Multi-service capability: Supporting multiple and concurrent customized services over a single, flatter, higher-performance IP architecture enabling dynamic service creation, delivery, and assurance
  • Openness and interoperability: Accelerating service creation and monetization by exposing network capabilities in a managed and controlled way to enhance end-user QoE
  • Intelligence: Identifying different users, services, and applications and providing appropriate quality of service (QoS) and traffic optimization based on pre-configured or dynamic profiles
  • Security and privacy: Protecting the assets and intellectual property of all parties, and the personal and contextual information of end-users