AlcaLu Boasts Progress at OpenNet

PARIS -- OpenNet consortium, the Network Company (NetCo) of Singapore’s Next Generation National Broadband Network (Next Gen NBN), has committed to deploy fiber to every home and office in Singapore. With the help of Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE:ALU), OpenNet has achieved its target of 60% nationwide coverage by 2010, and is on track to reach 95% by 2012. Meeting this target completes the second phase of their fiber network rollout.

Alcatel-Lucent’s Business and Operations Support Systems (BSS/OSS) is an important component in contributing to this achievement. The BSS/OSS will enable OpenNet to be fully automated in its network operations. This is the first time that a single systems integrator has provided an entire end-to-end BSS/OSS solution for a telco in an NBN environment.

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