PARIS -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that it has been selected by Síminn, Iceland’s market leader in telecommunication,as its GPON fiber-to-the-home supplier. Alcatel-Lucent’s solution will enable Síminn to deliver advanced broadband services such as high-definition television (HDTV), IPTV, video on demand (VoD) and high-speed Internet. Moreover, Síminn will migrate its traditional voice service to VoIP (voice over IP) for the subscribers on the GPON. The first deployments are starting this month.

“To meet emerging competition, we are now deploying GPON to be able to offer unlimited triple play services to customers in greenfield areas”, said Thor Jes Thorisson, CTO, Síminn. “Alcatel-Lucent’s worldwide leadership in deploying broadband services and their local services will support Síminn in doing this deployment successfully and cost-effectively.”

“Operators today are faced with a very competitive market environment, and the evolution towards fiber deployments is the next logical step to further strengthen their position. Alcatel-Lucent has been the main supplier of DSL solutions to Síminn since 1999, including IP DSLAMs (ISAM), and we are fully supporting the operator’s new programs, said Christian Reinaudo, president of Alcatel-Lucent’s activities for Europe and North.

Síminn will deploy the Alcatel-Lucent 7342 Intelligent Services Access Manager Fiber-to-the-User (ISAM FTTU) following the integration of the Alcatel-Lucent 7302 ISAM into its DSL network. The 7342 ISAM FTTU is the market’s first platform that complies with the GPON recommendations of the Full Service Access Network (FSAN) group. Both the Alcatel-Lucent 7302 ISAM and 7342 ISAM FTTU will be managed by the Alcatel-Lucent Access Management System, the converged access element manager that covers the full ISAM portfolio and provides comprehensive management capabilities.

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