Lucent Wins AT&T Sonet Deal

MURRAY HILL, N.J. -- Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU - News) today announced a multi-year agreement with AT&T (NYSE: T - News) to provide advanced optical technology as part of AT&T's next-generation intelligent optical network. Lucent is providing the Metropolis® DMX Access Multiplexer and the Metropolis® DMXtend Access Multiplexer, SONET (Synchronous Optical NETworking) systems designed to increase network capacity and enable new revenue-generating, high-speed services in metropolitan networks. Lucent Worldwide Services also is providing program management, engineering and installation services to support the implementation of the technology.

"Lucent's next-generation SONET technology is an excellent fit with AT&T's local network transformation and on-net plans, which enable benefits for AT&T customers in the form of higher reliability, shorter cycle times, and innovative end-to-end services," said Reed Harrison, who leads AT&T's worldwide network. "The DMX and DMXtend technology will play a key role in our overall program to converge and simplify products, networks, processes, systems, and organizations across our entire business."

"Lucent's next-generation SONET technology provides AT&T with a full range of SONET and Ethernet services, while allowing them to leverage their embedded base," said Janet Davidson, president, Integrated Network Solutions Group for Lucent Technologies. "That AT&T has chosen DMX products to expand its next-generation intelligent optical network underscores the confidence AT&T has in Lucent's optical technology, products and capabilities."

The Metropolis® DMX portfolio is being used by more than 70 customers worldwide to address the challenge they face in their metropolitan networks. Massive core communications networks meet the traffic demands of millions of individual businesses and residential customers in the nation's cities. Many of these major metropolitan areas have become networking bottlenecks, preventing the cost-effective delivery of high-bandwidth and IP services to businesses and consumers. Lucent Metropolis® provides a broad portfolio of products that can eliminate the bottleneck in the metropolitan network, allowing service providers to deliver new high-speed, revenue-generating services such as gigabit Ethernet, virtual private networks (VPN), storage area networks and digital subscriber lines (DSL).

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