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Lucent Technologies Showcases Services, Software and Systems That Deliver Value to Customers and Evolve Next-Generation Networks

Posted on: Monday, 21 June 2004, 06:00 CDT

CHICAGO, June 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- When SUPERCOMM 2004 opens, Lucent Technologies will showcase communications solutions designed to provide customers with next-generation network solutions and services to help them evolve their networks. Lucent's portfolio of solutions is designed to deliver value to a customer's network by reducing the cost of running the network and enabling the delivery of new revenue generating services end-users want.

In Booth 11211, Lucent will demonstrate its value to customers through four "Experience Areas," which feature solutions that enable the new services users want while lowering cost and increasing network efficiency, security and reliability. Lucent will feature:

* The "Building Converged Transport Networks" area, showcasing its

solutions that enable a service provider to efficiently grow their

current data, voice and video services, as well as add any new services

by converging their existing optical and data networks onto a

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) core;

* The "Building Service Convergence" area, featuring new service

opportunities for service providers and an innovative approach to

converging wireline and wireless networks to deliver a common user

experience;

* The "Building Value over Internet Protocol (IP)" area, highlighting more

than just voice, for enterprise customers that want multimedia,

personalized services that increase their productivity; and

* The "Building Service Excellence" area, featuring the software and

services that enable customers to optimize their network and deliver

quality of service, reliability and speed time to market of new

services.

Lucent also announced the following items in separate news releases: agreements with Telscape and Rye Telephone Company, and along with partner Juniper Networks, agreements with US LEC and Xspedius Communications. Lucent also announced two new revenue-generating applications, the Lucent Media Delivery Solution for Service Providers and Instant Messaging Notification, and a new metro optical system, the Metropolis(R) Wavelength Services Manager (WSM).

Additionally, Lucent has introduced the Lucent Market Advantage Program, an initiative designed to help service providers generate demand from their wholesale, retail and enterprise customers for integrated services in key growth areas such as Voice over IP, mobile high-speed data, Ethernet over SONET/SDH, Network Security and In-Building wireless solutions, IP Centrex and professional and managed services.

Building Converged Transport Networks

Lucent will emphasize the network-based services, software and systems for the transport layer of a network, featuring multiservice switching and optical solutions.

* CBX 3500(TM) Multiservice Edge Switch -- Lucent unveiled its new

multiservice edge switch designed to help service providers maximize the

profitability of today's Frame Relay and ATM data services, pursue

opportunities for next-generation Ethernet and IP/MPLS data services and

converge these services onto an MPLS core network. The CBX 3500(TM)

switch offers flexibility, savings, greater performance and proven

reliability based on Lucent's leading multiservice switch portfolio.

* IP/MPLS Router Module -- Lucent is demonstrating a new IP/MPLS router

module for the CBX 500(R) Multiservice Switch. The new module,

developed for Lucent by Juniper Networks, enables services providers to

quickly and easily add standards-based IP/MPLS to the CBX 500(R) switch.

By inserting the new IP/MPLS router module in available CBX 500(R)

switch slots, a service provider can quickly and easily introduce IP

Virtual Private Networks (VPN) and Juniper Networks' industry-leading

IP/MPLS capabilities on a CBX 500(R) switch that today supports FR and

ATM services.

* LIVE SOLUTION -- Lucent is demonstrating LIVE, the groundbreaking ATM

over MPLS Trunking Solution, jointly developed by Lucent and Juniper

Networks. This innovative solution enables service providers to retain

ATM-grade Quality of Service (QoS) when converging ATM traffic onto an

MPLS core, using the Lucent CBX 500(R) and Juniper T-640(TM) and

M-320(TM) routers, all managed by Lucent Operations Support System

(OSS).

* Navis(R) EMS-JMTE Management System -- Lucent is introducing Navis(R)

EMS-JMTE, a new software management system designed to allow providers

to rapidly configure and manage Juniper Networks routing platforms with

a single, fully integrated management system. The Lucent software

allows users of Juniper's M-, T-, and E-series platforms to streamline

their operations and quickly deliver a full range of IP VPN services,

including IP-Enabled Frame Relay and ATM and Enhanced DSL with "triple

play" services (Internet data, voice, video) over a converged MPLS core

network.

* Metropolis(R) Wavelength Services Manager -- Lucent is introducing the

Metropolis(R) Wavelength Services Manager (WSM), a new metro DWDM

product that will help service providers deliver cost-effective optical

bandwidth directly to their customers' premises, meeting their

wavelength needs in the metro access, interoffice and regional

application spaces. This product allows Lucent to extend its portfolio

to the network edge, closer to the service providers' customers,

enabling enterprises to take full advantage of the capabilities of

service providers' advanced optical networks.

* SONET Multiplexers -- Lucent is announcing a number of new additions to

its portfolio of next-generation and legacy SONET multiplexers. The new

additions reinforce Lucent's optical networking strategy to allow

customers to leverage their embedded base of current-generation

products, evolving it with new functionality and enabling customers to

offer new services without having to deploy overlay networks. The new

additions include two new Ethernet service packs on the Metropolis(R)

DMX Access Multiplexer, and standards-based Ethernet support on Lucent's

legacy SONET multiplexer, the DDM-2000. The smooth addition of Ethernet

services using the latest technology helps carriers add next-generation

services to thousands of new locations in their network where an

expensive data overlay network would otherwise be necessary.

Building Service Convergence

Lucent will feature next-generation solutions that enable a service provider to get ahead of end-user demand for new services over a single access vehicle.

* IP Enabled "Triple Play" Access Solutions Demo -- Lucent will showcase

IP-based "Triple Play" Access solutions for voice, video and data

services on the Stinger(R) Compact Remote DSLAM and AnyMedia(R) Access

System to help service providers retain customers and increase revenues

and addressable market.

* Mobile Messaging Solutions Demo -- Lucent will be demonstrating a new

mobile messaging solution that enables wireless service providers to

deliver voice messages from a user's mailbox on the network directly

into an MMS, BREW or J2ME enabled handset's mailbox. As a result, the

messages stored in the handset can be played by the user when convenient

without having to dial into the network. The Mobile Messaging Solution

and a Multimedia Messaging Solution, part of AnyPath(R) end user

applications, are two new Mobile Data offers that Lucent is introducing

this summer.

* Lucent Worldwide Services -- Lucent Worldwide Services (LWS) is

announcing service applications to help service providers offer their

subscribers exciting new features such as personalized celebrity

greetings and web-enabled messaging. LWS is introducing two new

additions to its revenue-generation applications portfolio including:

The Lucent Media Delivery Solution for Service Providers, which allows

end users to purchase and download entertaining greetings so they can

personalize their voicemail systems; and Lucent Web Messaging with

Instant Messaging Notification via Microsoft.Net Alert (R), which allows

subscribers to access all their voice mail, fax and Email messages from

a standard web browser and be notified instantly of new voicemail or fax

messages waiting.

* Bell Labs Innovations -- Bell Labs innovations and developments continue

to be critical to the success of both Lucent and our customers.

Therefore, senior executives and researchers from Bell Labs will be

sharing their views on the future of convergence, optical networking and

network security during rotating presentations, with questions and

answers, in Lucent's booth throughout each day of the show.

Building Value over IP

Lucent will feature bundled and blended services that deliver the experience enterprises demand.

* WiFi/3G Networking Demo -- Lucent will highlight how mobile WiFi "hot-

spots," such as those aboard public transportation vehicles, can be

connected to the Internet via high-speed, third-generation (3G) mobile

networks. This demonstration will include Video Instant Messaging (VIM)

and Virtual Private Network (VPN) applications and underscores the

complementary nature of WiFi and 3G technologies, showing how 3G

networks can enhance the usefulness and availability of WiFi.

* Lucent's Accelerate(TM) VoIP Demo -- Through a range of enterprise user

experiences, Total Enterprise Telephony, Enterprise VoIP and Enterprise

Voice Solutions will be demonstrated through a myriad of available

endpoints and a variety of enhanced features, including conference

calling, connectivity to the Lucent AnyPath(TM) voice mail system and

SIP softphones.

* Converged Services -- Lucent's booth will feature a variety of 3G voice

and high-speed data applications and "mixed media" services -- the real-

time interaction of voice, data and video via IP technology -- working

across various network types including mobile, WiFi and wireline. These

demonstrations are enabled by a new standard service architecture, IP

Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), which Lucent has embraced as the

wireless/wireline convergence service architecture supporting the

Accelerate(TM) VoIP Solutions portfolio.

About Lucent Technologies

Lucent Technologies designs and delivers the systems, services and software that drive next-generation communications networks. Backed by Bell Labs research and development, Lucent uses its strengths in mobility, optical, software, data and voice networking technologies, as well as services, to create new revenue-generating opportunities for its customers, while enabling them to quickly deploy and better manage their networks. Lucent's customer base includes communications service providers, governments and enterprises worldwide. For more information on Lucent Technologies, which has headquarters in Murray Hill, N.J., USA, visit http://www.lucent.com/.

Lucent Technologies

CONTACT: Dick Muldoon, +1-908-582-1616 - office, +1-908-930-9391 -mobile, rpmuldoon@lucent.com, or Mary Ward, +1-908-582-7658 - office,+1-908-565-1716 - mobile, maryward@lucent.com, both of Lucent Technologies

Web site: http://www.lucent.com/

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