Lucent Launches SDP

SAN FRANCISCO -- Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) today launched the Lucent Hosted Custom Applications Center, which is designed to help service providers rapidly deliver innovative and personalized new services.

As part of Lucent's overall applications strategy -- to offer wireline and wireless carriers differentiated "blended lifestyle" services that help drive revenue growth by stimulating traffic in the network -- the Lucent Hosted Custom Applications Center will enable service providers to rapidly introduce differentiated services, with low upfront investments and other operational and financial advantages. The announcement was made here at the CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment 2005 event.

Lucent's hosting capabilities will be managed from one of Lucent's four carrier-grade Global Network Operations Centers (GNOCs) in Denver, Colorado, Hilversum, The Netherlands, Sydney, Australia, and Hamilton, New Zealand.

"This is a crucial component in Lucent's overall applications strategy," said John Meyer, president of Lucent Worldwide Services. "Lucent is committed to supporting service providers by enabling "blended lifestyle" services supported by best-in-class integration and customization services, in addition to our own carrier-grade product portfolio. And our hosting capabilities enable Lucent to help service providers turn up new services much more quickly than was previously possible."

Dean and Company, a leading consultancy, projects the total address market for hosted content to be more than $6 billion in 2006, growing to more than $11 billion in 2009. To address this market opportunity, Lucent offers wireless and wireline service providers the ability to cost effectively offer a variety of carrier-grade applications, including multimedia content, messaging and location-based services, and have them hosted by Lucent Worldwide Services.

Lucent Technologies Inc.