New Offers Deliver Blended Lifestyle Services for Service Providers, Enterprises and Government Organizations
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.
