(Telecompaper) Alcatel-Lucent plans to highlight at the Mobile World Congress its portfolio of virtualized mobile network function applications, including evolved packet core, IP Multimedia Subsystem and radio access network functions in the cloud. The company said it's already working with 20 service providers to leverage NFV in their networks. Alcatel-Lucent and China Mobile will demonstrate in Barcelona voice and video delivered over a virtualized proof of concept LTE RAN Baseband Unit and virtualized EPC onboarded to the cloud. Alcatel-Lucent is developing its virtualized mobile portfolio as hardware independent, separating the functional software from the underlying hardware. This will allow it to leverage industry initiatives such as OpenStack, to operate with NFV platforms including management, orchestration, infrastructure and networking elements. The company is using its CloudBand 2.0 NFV platform at its Cloud Innovation Centre lab in the US to onboard and manage its virtualized applications. The 2.0 version has been expanded to support greater network control, broader open industry standard technologies, and virtualized network functions. It also integrates the Virtual Service Platform from Alcatel-Lucent's SDN venture, Nuage Networks.