DUBLIN, IRELAND -- Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) today announced plans toinvest approximately $150 million over the next three years to build a200,000-square-foot extension to its Blanchardstown facility in Dublin,Ireland. The investment includes creating 500 new jobs over the same timeperiod.

The facility, which will serve as an optical networking provisioning centerfor customers in Europe and the Asia/Pacific region, will reduce shippingtime to these customers from several weeks to several days.

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