MURRAY HILL, N.J. and TOKYO -- Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU - News) today announced that Japan's KDDI Corporation has selected Lucent to supply optical cross connect systems to support its international transport network. Under the agreement KDDI will deploy Lucent's LambdaUnite® MultiService Switch (MSS) and Navis® Optical Management System (OMS) to create an integrated, multi-service transport network to support a range of traditional voice services and new and emerging data services.

Lucent's LambdaUnite® MSS is an optical transport and cross-connect system that is capable of bridging traffic between data-intensive metro networks and high-speed optical core networks, connecting cities, campuses and corporate networks to larger, long-haul public networks. The platform was developed using a non-blocking, duplicated switch matrix architecture that greatly reduces the need for additional cross-connects and multiplexing systems, enabling KDDI to dramatically reduce its ongoing maintenance and operating costs.

The deployment of Lucent's LambdaUnite® MSS offers a variety of other advantages to KDDI as well, including a broad and rich feature set customized to address the unique needs and standards of individual markets including Japan, North America and Europe. The LambdaUnite® MSS is a state-of-the-art platform that represents the culmination of a highly focused, multi-year development effort -- on the part of Lucent's optical transport development team -- that has yielded an extremely robust portfolio of optical transport and cross connect systems.

"By introducing Lucent Technologies' LambdaUnite® MSS, KDDI will be able to move forward with its migration to the latest generation cross-connect, while supporting the integration of its international platforms into a single unified network," said Mr. Toshihiko Yumoto, executive director & general manager, Network Engineering Division, Corporate Technology Sector, KDDI. "In addition, we believe that the centralized alarm monitoring and disaster recovery features (such as NMS server redundancy) will greatly increase the trust that end-users have in our systems."

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