Alcatel-Lucent Launches World's First 'Green DSL'

Alcatel-Lucent's Intelligent Services Access Manager (ISAM) provides more
bandwidth with 25% less power

PARIS, July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU)
today launched a very innovative high-capacity and eco-efficient digital
subscriber line (DSL) platform -- enabling service providers to deliver
tomorrow's applications over their installed copper base, all while consuming
up to 25% less power compared to conventional DSL solutions.

Alcatel-Lucent's green DSL leverages the reduced power consumption of its
latest generation of DSL line cards, the company's unique distributed DSLAM
concept and Alcatel-Lucent's Smart DSL technology.

"Today, standards exist that allow modems to go in a low-power mode when user
traffic is low. However, re-activating these modems causes power fluctuations
-- resulting in crosstalk and destabilizing the network," said Jurgen Lison,
Vice-President of Alcatel-Lucent's ISAM product unit. "Alcatel-Lucent's green
DSL provides operators with a unique, end-to-end solution that overcomes these
issues -- enabling a significant reduction of the modems' power consumption
across a service provider's subscriber base without causing any line stability
issues. This is a value proposition that cannot be provided by any other
vendor in the industry today."

Not only does Alcatel-Lucent's latest ISAM release support a significant power
reduction compared to conventional DSL solutions, it is also the first
commercially-available DSL platform for ETSI markets that delivers 50Mbs to
all users -- with peaks up to 100Mbs -- anywhere in the network because of its
new, high-capacity, very high-speed DSL (VDSL) line cards and its support of
VDSL bonding technology across the line card. This ISAM release incorporates
the company's third generation of VDSL line cards, highlighting
Alcatel-Lucent's innovative technology and market leadership in the DSL space,
while supporting its applications enablement strategy through physical layer
synchronization for mobile backhaul and enhanced support for business
services.

"Operators challenged by recessionary and fiber business case limitations want
to optimize investment in their existing copper networks while also offering
sustained higher bandwidth over an extended reach. In conjunction with the
expected growth of FTTB, VDSL2 remains an important option to support higher
bandwidth services to residences and enterprises and for mobile backhaul,"
noted Kamalini Ganguly, broadband analyst at Ovum, Inc. "The new release of
Alcatel-Lucent's ISAM platform addresses the operator constraints and
objectives we have noted in our research. Our research further shows that
greener access technologies are a critical need for operators, and lower-power
products are a critical component of meeting this need."

"Release-4 of the ISAM platform puts Alcatel-Lucent more than one year ahead
of its competitors," said Dave Geary, President of Alcatel-Lucent's Wireline
Networks activities. "The ISAM platform enables our customers to deliver the
most bandwidth-intensive services over their copper architectures, by
leveraging -- for instance -- last-mile bonding support, which is a first in
ETSI markets. We are confident that our 'more bandwidth with less power' value
proposition will again create a big stir in the DSL industry -- just as the
launch of the ISAM platform five years ago."

This release supports Alcatel-Lucent's comprehensive eco-sustainability
program that includes using innovation to build smarter, eco-sustainable
networks at all layers (access, transport and core) with a framework that
addresses hardware, software, network and site innovation.
Alcatel-Lucent's leadership in DSL builds on its award-winning ISAM product
family. The ISAM family has now been deployed at more than 210 customers
worldwide. Since its launch five years ago, the ISAM family has been adopted
by approximately one customer per week, consolidating Alcatel-Lucent's
number-one position in IP broadband access.

Editorial background material

-- Alcatel-Lucent confirms 1Q'09 broadband access leadership,
performing strongly in VDSL and GPON (June 8th, 2009)

http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/wps/portal/newsreleases/detail?LMSG_CABINET=Docs_and_Resource_Ctr&LMSG_CONTENT_FILE=News_Releases_2009/News_Article_001611.xml&lu_lang_code=en

-- Guangdong Telecom selects Alcatel-Lucent to deploy first VDSL2 network
in China (June 3rd, 2009)

http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/wps/portal/newsreleases/detail?LMSG_CABINET=Docs_and_Resource_Ctr&LMSG_CONTENT_FILE=News_Releases_2009/News_Article_001597.xml&lu_lang_code=en

-- Alcatel-Lucent confirmed as global IPTV access and middleware market
leader (Apr 30th, 2009)

http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/wps/portal/newsreleases/detail?LMSG_CABINET=Docs_and_Resource_Ctr&LMSG_CONTENT_FILE=News_Releases_2009/News_Article_001554.xml&lu_lang_code=en

-- Alcatel-Lucent evolves its IP access platform which is powering
advanced
triple play services around the world (September 30th, 2008)

http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/wps/portal/newsreleases/detail?LMSG_CABINET=Docs_and_Resource_Ctr&LMSG_CONTENT_FILE=News_Releases_2008/News_Article_001261.xml&lu_lang_code=en

-- Alcatel-Lucent extends broadband access portfolio with fiber to the
building (FTTB) solution (March 5th, 2008)

http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/wps/portal/newsreleases/detail?LMSG_CABINET=Docs_and_Resource_Ctr&LMSG_CONTENT_FILE=News_Releases_2008/News_Article_00903.xml&lu_lang_code=en

About Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and 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.

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