PARIS -- Alcatel (Paris: CEGP.PA and NYSE: ALA), a world leader in next-generation network infrastructure and services, and Cramer Systems, a leading supplier of inventory software for the telecom industry, have signed an agreement enabling Alcatel to include Cramer's inventory software suite (Cramer4) as part of its Operation Support System (OSS) integration offer. The integrated offering will provide wire-line and wireless carriers with a real-time, complete and accurate record of available network resources at the physical, logical and service level. Service providers are increasingly looking for suppliers capable of integrating full OSS solutions in their existing environments. By including the Cramer suite in its OSS offering, Alcatel's OSS integration offering now includes real-time inventory software, providing an accurate visibility and control of network capacity and resources across vast and complex multi-technology and multi-vendor networks. "Alcatel's OSS solution including the Cramer4 suite for inventory management enables service providers not only to substantially reduce service delivery lead-times and costs, but also to reduce the incidence of 'stranded' assets and to provide a much more efficient response to faults in the network" said Pierre Dubost, OSS marketing director of Alcatel's integration and services activities. "Being an OSS integrator, the Cramer4 suite is a key part of our global OSS offering for multi-vendor and multi-domain networks."Alcatel SACramer Systems Ltd.