Lucent Pushes on Enterprise OSS

DUBLIN -- Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) today announced that a group of 19 Lucent Business Partners are selling Lucent's market-leading network management software solutions to enterprise customers throughout Europe.

The Lucent software enables corporate information technology (IT) departments to monitor every aspect of network and application performance and to better manage their Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and networks, including those based on multi-vendor technologies. It also allows IT departments to enhance overall quality of service and reduce operating expenses, while providing carrier-class reliability, flexibility and scalability to enterprises.

The Lucent software portfolio includes VitalSuite(R) (network and application performance management), VitalQIP(TM) (IP address management) and NavisRadius Authentication, Authorisation, Accounting (AAA) Server.

Many of the Business Partners have been part of the Lucent programme for a number of years, while a few have joined more recently. Lucent will provide its partners with sales support and assistance from Lucent Worldwide Services to help meet end-user customers' service support needs.

Partners who are reselling the Vital portfolio include systems integrators and resellers from across Europe: Cable & Wireless (Netherlands), Comda (Israel), Cygate Maldata (Sweden), Dimension Data (BeLux), ete-hager ag (Switzerland), Ementor (Norway & Denmark), GENESIS COMMUNICATION (Switzerland), Knowware (UK) Landata Payma (Spain), Netlink (Netherlands), Netcor (Germany), N3k Informatik GmbH (Germany), Schoeller Network Control (Austria), SIA (Spain), Siemens A&D (Germany), Silicomp (France), TDB Networks (UK) and Telindus (Netherlands).

These companies offer pre-and post-sales support for the Lucent software solutions as well as professional services needed to install, manage and maintain the software.

"These resellers enable us to leverage their regional reach and expertise to offer our products directly to enterprise customers throughout the European communities," said Bob Vetter, president of the Network Operations Software (NOS) Group, Lucent Technologies. "By creating this strong European distribution channel along with our growing channel in North America, we continue to build a powerful worldwide sales channel for our software solutions."

"Our Business Partner programme continues to focus on opening new doors for Lucent throughout the world," said Nicolaas Rauwenhoff, Global Business Partner vice president for Lucent in the region. "We have carefully selected and trained these software resellers to ensure that the end customers are working with best-in-class organisations who add value to Lucent's robust portfolio of products."

VitalSuite(R) is a fully integrated, award-winning package of three software components, VitalNet(TM), VitalEvent(R) and VitalApps(TM). Together they monitor network and application performance and identify problems in real-time with easy-to-read advanced GUIs, customisable portal and advanced reporting capabilities.

VitalQIP(TM) is a software solution designed to automate IP address management and Domain Name System/Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DNS/DHCP) services across the enterprise. VitalQIP(TM) helps to configure, automate, integrate and administer IP services across the entire network. The IP address management software solution improves reconfiguration time by more than 60 percent, which significantly reduces the time spent manually managing an IP infrastructure.

NavisRadius(TM) provides secure, highly scalable, full-featured AAA Server functionality. NavisRadius(TM) allows enterprises to provide security to their corporate networks, through advanced authentication and authorisation capabilities.

The award winning Lucent VitalSuite(R), VitalQIP(TM) and NavisRadius(TM) network management software are part of the Navis(R) iOperations software portfolio, Lucent's open, standards- based portfolio of Network and Element Management Systems. The Navis(R) iOperations portfolio is deployed worldwide, supporting provisioning, surveillance and performance management of advanced services across multi-vendor, multi-technology networks (www.lucent.com/solutions/network_ops_w.html).

In Europe, the Business Partner programme is continuing to strengthen its indirect sales channel bringing on board several new systems integrators and resellers to resell solutions and services for its software, data and optical portfolios. For more information on the Business Partner programme or to locate a Lucent Business Partner, visit the website at http://www.lucent.com/partner/advantage.

Lucent Technologies Inc.