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Brazoria Telephone Deploys Alcatel-Lucent's Triple Play Service Delivery Architecture

Posted on: Tuesday, 17 June 2008, 09:00 CDT

LAS VEGAS, June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- NXTcomm -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) and Brazoria Telephone, an independent service provider in Texas, today announced that Brazoria Telephone has deployed Alcatel-Lucent's Triple Play Service Delivery Architecture (TPSDA) to deliver high-speed broadband voice, video and data services to residential and business customers in its service area south of Houston.

Alcatel-Lucent is providing a flexible and reliable infrastructure with nearly unlimited available bandwidth enabling Brazoria Telephone to deliver advanced broadband services including high-definition television (HDTV), video-on-demand (VOD), VoIP and high-speed Internet access. Alcatel-Lucent also will provide network integration services including project management, consulting, network design, installation, deployment, integration, testing and maintenance.

"Alcatel-Lucent's solution enables us to quickly develop exciting new service offerings based on what our subscribers want while delivering on the promise made by our company motto of providing exceptionally dependable services," said John Greenberg, president, Brazoria Telephone. "In addition, the Alcatel-Lucent solution gives us unprecedented control over subscriber services making it possible for us to automate our billing process and offer our subscriber's flexible Internet service that more efficiently manages bandwidth-usage based on pre-defined service packages."

A key requirement for Brazoria Telephone was simplified and user-centric subscriber control, which is provided through the Alcatel-Lucent 5750 Subscriber Services Controller (SSC). When seamlessly integrated with the 5620 Service Aware Manager (SAM), the 5750 SSC allows Brazoria to use subscriber profiles, and subscriptions with associated service profiles and policies, to flexibly manage its high-speed internet (HSI) operations. In addition, it gives Brazoria Telephone the capability to allow subscribers themselves to increase bandwidth automatically through service package upgrades and temporary bandwidth boosts, all made accessible through a subscriber web portal.

"Alcatel-Lucent is helping Brazoria Telephone lay an IP network foundation that leverages our industry-leading broadband access, optics, carrier Ethernet and service-aware IP technologies and couples them with robust subscriber and network management, and security capabilities," said Gerry Cafaro, vice president of sales for Alcatel-Lucent. "With deployment of Alcatel-Lucent's TPSDA, Brazoria is well-positioned to deliver new and innovative consumer and enterprise service offerings to its customers."

The TPSDA solution deployed for Brazoria Telephone includes the Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router, 7450 Ethernet Service Switch, 7330 Intelligent Services Access Manager (ISAM) fiber-to-the-node (FTTN) system, in addition to the 5750 SSC and the 5620 SAM. The Alcatel-Lucent 5750 SSC also allows Brazoria Telephone to evolve its network to include innovative IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) service and TISPAN (Telecoms & Internet converged Services & Protocols for Advanced Networks) functions that reduce the cost of introducing IMS applications. Finally, the Alcatel-Lucent 5750 SSC also enables CALEA (Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act), Lawful Intercept Notification Server (LINS) and E911 capabilities.

Alcatel-Lucent is the leader in end-to-end-triple play networks, currently deploying its TPSDA with worldwide operators, municipalities and utilities, now including Brazoria Telephone. Alcatel-Lucent is also the world leader in both IPTV and Mobile TV, having already enabled TV, video and music services for more than 140 fixed and mobile service providers around the world. It is a global leader in design, deployment, integration, testing and maintaining networks, through its Services business group.

About Brazoria Telephone

Brazoria Telephone is a US independent service provider located in Texas. Brazoria Telephone strives for high customer satisfaction in meeting the growing high-speed internet demands of its residential subscribers through delivering dependable services. It currently provides local telephone, cellular and Internet services to more than 7,000 customers in Brazoria, Texas. John H. Greenberg has been president of Brazoria Telephone, since 1983. For more information, please visit: http://www.btel.com/.

About Alcatel-Lucent's Triple Play Service Delivery Architecture (TPSDA) Alcatel-Lucent's TPSDA, the widely deployed blueprint architecture for triple play, enables operators to accelerate their IP network transformation to deliver a full range of personalized multimedia services combining voice, data and video. TPSDA provides a reliable and scalable IP network foundation that leverages Alcatel-Lucent's industry-leading broadband access, optics, carrier- Ethernet and IP technologies and couples them with robust services, subscriber and network management. TPSDA is further supported by a comprehensive suite of design, deployment and integration services.

About Alcatel-Lucent

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) provides solutions that enable service providers, enterprise and governments worldwide, to deliver voice, data and video communication services to end-users. As a leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband networking, IP technologies, applications and services, Alcatel-Lucent offers the end-to-end solutions that enable compelling communications services for people at home, at work and on the move. With operations in more than 130 countries, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with global reach. The company has the most experienced global services team in the industry, and one of the largest research, technology and innovation organizations in the telecommunications industry. Alcatel-Lucent achieved revenues of Euro 17.8 billion in 2007 and is incorporated in France, with executive offices located in Paris. For more information, visit Alcatel- Lucent on the Internet: http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/

Alcatel-Lucent

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Source: PRNewswire

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