Alcatel-Lucent Collaborates

PARIS -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) and Hutchison Global Communications Limited (HGC) today announced an agreement to deliver Managed Communications Services (MCS), combining communications servers, applications, network services and management to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Hong Kong.

Under the arrangement, Alcatel-Lucent and HGC will deliver a combination of network-based and on-premise business communications solutions and services. HGC will offer the Alcatel-Lucent OmniPCX Office voice, data and Internet communications server in conjunction with a choice of HGC network services, ongoing system maintenance and remote service management.

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PARIS -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) and KT (Seoul: 0030200 and NYSE: KTC), South Korea’s largest telecommunication company, today announced the inauguration of the latest born state-of-the-art WiMAX reality center in Seoul, South Korea. This lab is entirely dedicated to showcase WiMAX IEEE 802.16e-2005 technology and demonstrates its huge potential for broadband multimedia mobile services.Hosted at the KT Technology Support Business Unit and gathering a team of Alcatel-Lucent and KT’s engineering and marketing staff, this lab will serve as a venue to verify KT’s Mobile WiMAX service conformance and readiness with WiMAX-enable devices and to ensure end-to-end integration of customer-specific solutions. It will allow Alcatel-Lucent and KT to jointly develop new broadband multimedia applications over WiMAX, to test their fixed-mobile convergence and to evaluate the end-user’s experience.

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PARIS -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) announced today that KT, the leading fixed incumbent operator in Korea, is deploying Alcatel-Lucent’s optical solution to enhance the flexibility and the managed capacity of its transport network. The solution will enable KT to cope with the growing bandwidth needs driven by new and existing broadband services, to address its mobile traffic backhaul requirements and to simplify its operations.

KT is deploying Alcatel-Lucent’s 1678 Metro Core Connect (MCC), a scalable platform for metro and core applications that integrates data and transport functionality into a single node, thus optimizing network investments. Simplifying network operations, the Alcatel-Lucent 1678 MCC offers a cost-efficient solution to fixed and mobile operators who want to aggregate and consolidate multi-protocol traffic streams from the metro towards the core. Furthermore, its industry-leading density allows service providers to further reduce operating costs. Alcatel-Lucent’s solution will be managed by its 1350 management suite, which allows the supervision of packet, TDM and wavelength services.

"As data and transport worlds move closer and increase network traffic, we need to accommodate this growth while continuing to focus on network simplification and high-density solutions," said Chul Kim, Vice President of International Network Planning Division, KT. "Alcatel-Lucent offers us the ability to rely on a modular architecture that we can scale for anticipated growth when and where needed."

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