CHICAGO and MURRAY HILL, N.J. — At the SUPERCOMM trade show here today, Lucent Technologies announced six new broadband, optical, compact switch and hosted services contracts, along with the availability of new applications for IP-based IMS networks, new IP TV solutions, and new hosted IP PBX offers.
The company also announced a global strategic alliance with Capgemini to deliver joint consulting and network integration solutions to enterprises, governments and telecommunications markets and an agreement with PAETEC Communications, which will sell the entire Lucent portfolio of wireline products and services into U.S. vertical markets, including colleges and universities, hospitals, government organizations and financial businesses.
“The contracts, solutions and vendor relationships we announced today demonstrate our momentum for evolving communications networks and delivering blended lifestyle services for service providers, enterprises and government customers,” said John Giere, Lucent’s chief marketing officer.
The company demonstrated a dozen exciting new personal communications applications, including interactive gaming, IP TV services and a unique Bell Labs project called “Anywhere/Anytime TV” in its booth (#64056) at the show, which runs through Thursday of this week. Experts from Lucent’s famed Bell Labs will give booth presentations every 30 minutes on subjects ranging from network security and carrier-grade VoIP to optical networking, IMS, network optimization and nanotechnology.
In addition to the agreements with Capgemini and PAETEC, Lucent made the following announcement at SUPERCOMM:
Contract Announcements
* Choice One, based in Rochester, N.Y., will use Lucent Worldwide Services Hosted Messaging Solution to upgrade, expand and enhance voice and web-based messaging services to its customers throughout its 29 markets nationwide.
* Dreamline, one of South Korea’s leading broadband Internet service providers, will build a nationwide optical network using Lucent’s next-generation SONET systems to offer video distribution and cable TV services to its customers.
* Toronto Hydro Telecom will deploy Lucent’s LambdaUnite(r) MultiService Switch to expand their optical infrastructure. Lucent’s VitalSuite(r) Integrated Network Controller software will provide fault, provisioning and performance management for the LambdaUnite switches.
* Building on two previous Lucent Compact Switch wins announced in the past two months, Lucent announced three more compact switch sales – to Fonix Telecom, a CLEC in Atlanta; to CMC Telecom, an independent telco in Wixom, Mich.; and to Midwest Wireless, headquartered in Mankato, Minn.
IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Applications and Relationships
* Four new IMS applications provide consumers and business users with new “lifestyle” services that blend voice, video and data capabilities and can be delivered across both wireless and wireline networks. These new services, part of the latest release of Lucent’s Bell Labs-developed IMS solution, include:
* Active PhoneBook, a next-generation application that not only provides unified database management and a consistent “look and feel” across email contact lists, instant messaging buddy lists and mobile handset phonebooks, but also enables consumers to conduct multi-party, multimedia communications sessions.
* Peer-to-Peer Video service, which enables subscribers to conduct two-way streaming-video conference sessions, for example, parents sending live video of children to grandparents, or teens sharing video of a party;
* iLocator, a personalized location- and presence-based application that alerts users when friends, family or points of interest are in their vicinity and facilitates services that can take advantage of that location information, for example, notification about a sale at a favorite store, or dispatch of the nearest agent to a location needing a service call;
* Multiparty Video Gaming, which allows operators to deploy a variety of exciting multiplayer games that can be supported across mobile and wireline devices, such as phones and desktop PCs.
* Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) and Polycom, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLCM) will collaborate on the delivery of IP-based voice and video conferencing and collaboration solutions for wireless, wireline and converged networks.
* Kodiak Networks and Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) have agreed to accelerate the deployment of Open Mobile Alliance/Push-to-Talk (PTT) solutions for IMS-based networks.
* IMS enhancements in Lucent’s expanded VitalSuite(r) software applications give customers, real-time, end-to-end visibility into the quality and performance of enhanced services and provide comprehensive service assurance and IP services management to improve service quality and the user experience.
Hosted and Managed Services
* Three new hosted communications applications solutions enable service providers to quickly provision carrier-class Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services for enterprise customers, while limiting their own financial and technical exposure. The three new hosted solution offerings include:
* Lucent Hosted IP PBX — a completely outsourced, network-based IP PBX service that supports SIP-based calls and connections and includes standard office PBX features, such as shared phone number for desk and mobile phone, four-digit extension dialing, and single voice mail boxes;
* Lucent Hosted Messaging – network-based advanced services such as speech dialing, speech messaging and web messaging, provided via Lucent’s AnyPath(r) Messaging System;
* Lucent Hosted MiLifeTM Solutions — a wide range of outsourced applications including iLocator for location based services, SurePay(r) for pre- and post-paid charging, MiRingBack for ring-back tone service, and other applications based on the MiLife suite targeted to the Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO), enterprise, and consumer markets.
Broadband and IP Video
* Telefonica Spain added the 40,000th subscriber to its Imagenio multimedia IP TV broadband service in Spain, which is based on Lucent’s Stinger(r) DSLAMs.
* Orca Interactive and Lucent will deliver mass-market-ready, integrated IPTV and multimedia solutions for service providers, using Orca’s IP TV middleware and Lucent’s network infrastructure solutions and Lucent Worldwide Services. The companies have signed a joint development agreement aimed at simplifying mass-market IPTV deployment. Lucent is demonstrating its end-to-end IP video solution in its booth at SUPERCOMM.
* New features on the Stinger(r) DSL Access Concentrator Compact Remote make it the industry’s highest-capacity line-powered, hardened remote concentrator, ideal for enabling high-speed IP DSL and Gigabit Ethernet services for subscribers outside the range of existing DSL installations. Such services include including IP TV, streaming multimedia and interactive gaming.
* A new Gigabit Ethernet module on the CBX 3500(tm) multiservice edge switch enables Gigabit Ethernet transport and Ethernet/ATM/FrameRelay/MPLS interworking to simplify the delivery of Ethernet services. Lucent also now offers the ability to converge ATM and Frame Relay across IP/MPLS using a standards-based method known as Pseudo Wire Emulation.
Voice Networking
* A new line testing card for the 5E-XC(tm) and GTD-5 Switches as well as the AnyMedia(r) Access System and AnyMedia(r) Line Access Gateway, replaces up to six circuit packs previously required to see if lines are functioning properly and if they can support DSL or other data services.
The full text of Lucent’s individual SUPERCOMM news releases can be found at http://www.lucent.com/press.
About Lucent Technologies
Lucent Technologies designs and delivers the systems, services and software that drive next-generation communications networks. Backed by Bell Labs research and development, Lucent uses its strengths in mobility, optical, software, data and voice networking technologies, as well as services, to create new revenue-generating opportunities for its customers, while enabling them to quickly deploy and better manage their networks. Lucent’s customer base includes communications service providers, governments and enterprises worldwide. For more information on Lucent Technologies, which has headquarters in Murray Hill, N.J., USA, visit http://www.lucent.com.