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Imtech Telecom Selects Lucent Technologies To Manage the Network Operations for its Customer Eurofiber

Posted on: Monday, 17 November 2003, 06:00 CST

HILVERSUM, Netherlands, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Lucent Technologies today announced that it has been selected by business partner Imtech Telecom, to manage and support the network operations for its customer EuroFiber, one of the largest fibre providers in the BeNeLux region. Lucent Worldwide Services will provide 24x7managed services, including network management and monitoring facilities for the company's network operations from its Hilversum operations centre.

Under the terms of the agreement, Lucent will manage Eurofiber's new Fast Ethernet services on their fibre network as a 'carriers' carrier' product. Currently this service is available in the Randstad, but in the near future it will be available in southern parts of the Netherlands as well as Belgium.

"Imtech Telecom and Lucent work well together - Imtech Telecom supports us with its technology, customer provisioning and maintenance experience, which is partnered with the strong network operations knowledge and guaranteed service levels provided by Lucent." said Joost Goderie, chief executive officer from EuroFiber.

By outsourcing its maintenance, customer provisioning and network management, EuroFiber will be able to focus on its core business and more cost effectively introduce new services to its customers. Imtech Telecom has a strong knowledge of the communications market in the northwestern part of Europe and works closely with its customers to ensure that they are provided with the technology and services for them to do their business effectively.

"We selected Lucent because together we can offer the multi-vendor expertise and experience required to understand and manage the network of our customer, EuroFiber, and other customers," said Peter Lohman, general director from Imtech Telecom.

Lucent manages more than 25 customer networks worldwide, ranging from IP start-ups to enterprises and service providers. Lucent has a network of Global Network Operations Centres (GNOC), including the one based in Hilversum, which will support EuroFiber's network management requirements. Lucent also has similar centers in Sydney and Denver.

"This agreement is an example of the growing demand in the European market for managed services," said Nicolaas Rauwenhoff, vice president EMEA Lucent Global Business Partner Organisation. "EuroFiber is able to focus on its core business activities as a way of differentiating its business while taking advantage of a new business model that assures network reliability and cost reduction. The Lucent GNOCs work around the clock to continuous share skills, experience and knowledge enabling best practice and the continuing evolution of our network experience."

About EuroFiber

At an early stage, EuroFiber recognized the importance of metropolitan access networks that provide carriers and corporate customers with connections between long distance networks and the Point of Interest (POI), such as ISP, ASP's, telehousing locations and corporate premises. The second to none core fibre network with unlimited capacity has a footprint of 1300 kilometres connecting major cities (including Amsterdam, Leiden, The Hague, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Antwerp, and Brussels), each of which is a major traffic node. With this dense fibre network we reach out to Carriers, ISP's and thousands of local and regional business, enterprises, multinational corporations, educational institutions and government bodies, offering them superior fibre connections. The Eurofiber Fast Ethernet service is the first fully managed, flexible, low cost, ethernet based service guaranteeing stable high bandwidth connections between the major data centres. Eurofiber is headquartered in Amsterdam and has offices in Brussels. For more info you can contact us at: 0031(0)20 5626000.

About Imtech Telecom

Imtech N.V. is a European technical service provider in the fields of information & communication technology, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering. With around 14,000 employees, Imtech achieves an annual turnover of around 2,0 billion euro. Imtech holds strong positions in the buildings, industry, marine, infrastructure and telecoms markets in Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg and The Netherlands and is also active in England and Spain. Imtech shares are listed on the Euronext Stock Exchange (Amsterdam), where Imtech is included in the Midkap index (AMX) and the Next 150 index. For more information on Imtech, visit its Web site at http://www.imtech.nl/

About Lucent Technologies

Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., USA, designs and delivers networks for the world's largest communications service providers. Backed by Bell Labs research and development, Lucent relies on its strengths in mobility, optical, data and voice networking technologies as well as software and services to develop next-generation networks. The company's systems, services and software are designed to help customers quickly deploy and better manage their networks and create new, revenue-generating services that help businesses and consumers. For more information on Lucent Technologies, visit its Web site at http://www.lucent.com/.

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