BARCELONA, Spain — Nokia’s (NYSE:NOK) acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent may still be quite young, but the vendor is already seeing growing opportunities to apply SDN and NFV wares to emerging applications like SD-WAN and combined IP and optical functions. The vendor is demonstrating all of its SDN, NFV and optical products and services here at the Mobile World Congress under the Nokia brand.
Apart from being renamed the IP/optical division, not much within the former Alcatel-Lucent optical and IP routing division has changed since the transaction was completed in January. Nokia also combined functions like the two separate packet core divisions under one common team.
