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Alcatel-Lucent Placed in Leaders Quadrant in Industry Analyst Corporate Telephony Report

Posted on: Monday, 8 September 2008, 12:00 CDT

PARIS, September 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced it has been placed in the leaders quadrant of the recently published Gartner "Magic Quadrant for Corporate Telephony". For the first time, the report evaluates corporate telephony vendors from a global rather than regional perspective.

The Gartner report recognizes that the market is evolving "from one of proprietary hardware to one of standards-based software" that provides companies the opportunity to "use IP telephony to deliver business benefits across the organization, while consolidating technologies around a common technology or solution provider, or selection of providers and their partners."

Alcatel-Lucent telephony solutions are based on open-standards and provide a range of solutions for voice and video conferencing, collaboration, unified messaging, unified communications, wireless communications, and applications for small to medium businesses and large enterprises. As a global company, Alcatel-Lucent provides businesses with consistent national and regional deployments of global solutions and the option of single supplier installations that transparently interconnect disparate locations.

According to the Gartner report, "Market leaders demonstrate strength and can affect market trends in all the criteria on which they are evaluated. Leaders tend to have broad geographical coverage across the globe or particular strengths in one or more key global markets."

Alcatel-Lucent is helping its customers to become increasingly dynamic enterprises by providing communications solutions that strengthen relationships, simplify interaction, and improve performance. State of the art networks, streamlined processes, real-time collaboration and improved access to information help turn every interaction into a business opportunity.

About The Magic Quadrant

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2008 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About Alcatel-Lucent

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) provides solutions that enable service providers, enterprises 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

CONTACT: Alcatel-Lucent Press Contacts: Regine Coqueran, Tel:+33(0)1-40-76-49-24, regine.coqueran@alcatel-lucent.com; Alix Cavallari, Tel:+33(0)1-40-76-16-58, alix.cavallari@alcatel-lucent.com; Alcatel-LucentInvestor Relations: Remi Thomas, Tel: +33(0)1-40-76-50-61,remi.thomas@alcatel-lucent.com; Tom Bevilacqua, Tel: +1-908-582-7998,bevilacqua@alcatel-lucent.com; Tony Lucido, Tel: +33(0)1-40-76-49-80,alucido@alcatel-lucent.com; Don Sweeney, Tel: +1-908-582-6153,dsweeney@alcatel-lucent.com

Source: PRNewswire-FirstCall

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