Alcatel Optronics Selling to Chinese

PARIS -- Alcatel Optronics (Paris: CGO; NASDAQ: ALAO), aworld leading supplier of opto-electronic components for telecommunicationnetworks, today announced the opening of a sales office in Shenzhen, China.Increasing its worldwide presence, Alcatel Optronics reinforces itscommercial relationship with its Chinese clients and provides optimaltechnical support for its complete range of active and passive components.By offering greater access to its technological expertise, AlcatelOptronics provides a real time and flexible service to local systemmanufacturers for their optical network design.By establishing a local specialized team dedicated to client sales andtechnical support, Alcatel Optronics can better understand the local needsin opto-electronic components, permitting clients to optimize 2.5 Gbit/sand 10 Gbit/s metropolitan and long-haul system design."Serving the Chinese market is one of the main objectives of our salesstrategy for the Asia Pacific area," said Philippe Brégi, Chief OperatingOfficer of Alcatel Optronics. "Opening this sales office in China is acrucial step towards an efficient partnership with our Chinese customers."Alcatel Optronics