Belgian Advanced Broadband Network Wins 2009 Innovations Award From Global Telecoms Business

LONDON, Jun 16 (MARKET WIRE) --
Belgacom, Belgium's leading telecommunications service provider, and
three of the world's most innovative broadband equipment and
semiconductor suppliers -- Alcatel-Lucent (PARIS: ALU) and (NYSE: ALU),
Ikanos Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: IKAN) and Sagem Communications --
today were awarded the 2009 Innovations Award for Fixed Network
Infrastructure by Global Telecoms Business magazine. Belgacom's Broadway
Project includes the deployment of a high-speed broadband network for the
delivery of advanced triple play services across Belgium. The hybrid
fiber/VDSL2 network incorporates central office (CO) and customer
premises equipment (CPE) semiconductors from Ikanos, IP digital subscriber
line access multiplexers (DSLAMs) from Alcatel-Lucent and residential
gateways from Sagem Communications.

By using fiber and VDSL2, Belgacom is able to cost-effectively offer
revenue-enhancing services. Belgacom's broadband infrastructure consists
of more than 16,500 active street cabinet nodes throughout the country,
allowing the service provider to cover 69 percent of Belgian households --
an uncontested leadership-position in the European Union. As a result,
Belgacom is able to deliver two simultaneous high-definition Internet
protocol television (HD IPTV) streams, voice and very fast Internet
service on a sustained, video-grade bandwidth of 20 Mbps to the vast
majority of its customers.

"We evaluated a large number of fixed network infrastructure deployments.
With the ability to deliver video-grade bandwidth nationwide, Belgacom's
fiber/VDSL2 network embodied the leadership we were seeking in our 2009
Innovations Award winner," said Alan Burkitt-Gray, editor of Global
Telecom Business. "The combination of Ikanos-based CO and CPE gear from
Alcatel-Lucent and Sagem Communications plays an integral role in enabling
advanced triple play services, including HDTV, to homes throughout
Belgium."

"The Broadway Project is the combination of a flexible network design, the
coordinated roll out of more than 14,000 kilometers of fiber in the access
network, and an incredibly efficient installation of thousands of VDSL2
cabinets across Belgium," said Patrick Delcoigne, director of Network
Infrastructure Engineering for Belgacom. "Alcatel-Lucent supplied us with
very high volumes of its Ikanos-based VDSL2 DSLAM on short notice,
allowing us to activate our infrastructure at a rate that equaled one new
VDSL2 cabinet every two minutes during the first quarter of 2008. And,
Sagem's Ikanos-based VDSL2 home gateways are enabling us to continue
connecting thousands of customers every week to advanced broadband
services."

"Belgacom has been one of the first service providers worldwide to
actively deploy VDSL2 technology in its fiber-to-the-node access
network," said Juergen Lison, vice president of Alcatel-Lucent's
Intelligent Services Access Manager (ISAM) product unit. "Thanks to
Belgacom's ongoing innovations, Belgium ranks amongst the most advanced
countries in the world in terms of high-speed broadband services, turning
the country into one of the first real fiber nations."

Ikanos' Fx10050-5 chipsets enable the development of highly integrated,
high-performance 48-port European Telecommunications Standards Institute
(ETSI) line cards in Alcatel-Lucent's DSLAMs. In addition, Ikanos'
high-performance products -- including the Fusiv(R) Vx160 processor and
Fx(TM)10050S-5 chipsets -- have been integrated into Sagem Communications'
F@st 3464 residential gateway to provide wire-speed routing, voice over IP
(VoIP), non-blocking wireless local area network (WLAN) and quality of
service (QoS) functions for IPTV.

"We are very pleased that our gateway processors and VDSL2 chipsets are an
integral part of the award-winning Broadway Project," said Mitch Kahn,
vice president of corporate marketing for Ikanos. "By working closely with
network equipment leaders Alcatel-Lucent and Sagem Communications, we're
providing advanced broadband products that have enabled Belgacom to
quickly and cost effectively roll out next-generation, feature rich,
triple play services."

The Global Telecoms Business Innovation Awards are designed to honor
innovative projects involving telecommunications operators and service
providers around the world, in association with their vendors and
suppliers.

About Alcatel-Lucent

Alcatel-Lucent (PARIS: ALU) (NYSE: ALU) is the trusted partner of service
providers, enterprises and governments worldwide, providing solutions that
deliver voice, data and video communication services to end-users. A
leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband networking, IP
technologies, applications and services, Alcatel-Lucent leverages the
unrivalled technical and scientific expertise of Bell Labs, one of the
largest innovation powerhouses in the communications industry. With
operations in more than 130 countries and the most experienced global
services organization in the industry, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner
with a global reach. Alcatel-Lucent achieved revenues of Euro 16.98
billion in 2008 and is incorporated in France, with executive offices
located in Paris. For more information, visit Alcatel-Lucent on the
Internet: http://www.alcatel-lucent.com.

About Global Telecom Business

Founded in 1993 and part of the Euromoney Institutional Investor group of
publications -- Global Telecoms Business is the only magazine written
specifically for the senior managers who run telecoms carriers worldwide.
For more information, visit www.globaltelecomsbusiness.com.

About Ikanos Communications, Inc.

Ikanos Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: IKAN) is a leading provider of
advanced broadband semiconductor and software products for the digital
home. The company's multi-mode VDSL2/ADSLx, network processor and other
offerings power access infrastructure and customer premises equipment for
many of the world's leading network equipment manufacturers and
telecommunications service providers. For more information, visit
www.ikanos.com.

Copyright 2009 Ikanos Communications, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Ikanos
Communications, Ikanos, the Ikanos logo, the Bandwidth without boundaries
tagline, Fusiv, Fx, and FxS are among the trademarks or registered
trademarks of Ikanos Communications.

All other trademarks mentioned herein are properties of their respective
holders.

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