PARIS, May 19 /PRNewswire/ --     Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced
that it will demonstrate its leadership and industry vision for transforming
communications at the upcoming Management World (MW) trade show, taking place
in Nice, France, between May 20 and 22.

Ranked No. 1 in OSS (Operations Support Systems) by Gartner and No. 2 in
Global Telecom Software by OSS Observer, serving more than 180 customers
world-wide; Alcatel-Lucent is expanding its multivendor consulting and
integration offers, leveraging its services infrastructure expertise, into
applications and the Alcatel-Lucent Open Service Delivery Environment
framework - which includes Service Delivery Platforms (SDPs) and a Service
Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach - to help its customers deliver blended
services faster. This is part of the Alcatel-Lucent Transformation Advantage
Framework, which was announced in January 2008.

"We see service providers continuing their operations and IT
streamlining, while aiming to offer blended multimedia services," said
Jean-Pierre Gaillat, Managing Vice President of Alcatel-Lucent's, OSS/BSS &
Systems Integration activities. "Through our unique expertise combining IT,
Applications, SDPs, OSS, BSS and network integration, we bring business value
in establishing an infrastructure that can flexibly deliver innovative
services to their customers. Our participation in TM Forum's Service Delivery
Framework team and Content Encounter Catalyst, is a solid demonstration of
our capabilities."

SPEAKING SESSIONS

Alcatel-Lucent has 11 speaking and panel slots demonstrating
thought-leadership and its leading role in operations and IT transformation,
including:

- A case study led by Jean-Pierre Gaillat, Managing VP, OSS/BSS
& IS with Peter Maxwell of eircom on next-generation network roll-outs.

- A service fulfilment case study led by Andreas Lampen, Director,
Design & Partner Management, OSS/BSS with Michael Götzelmann, Head of
Service Provisioning Team, Arcor.

- Examples of operational challenges due to new regulator push in
countries such as Singapore and New Zealand led by Radhi Nouira, VP
Business Development OSS/BSS, Asia Pacific, Alcatel-Lucent.

- Several other chair, panel, and talks on service delivery, home
management and beyond.

DEMONSTRATIONS

Alcatel-Lucent is taking part in the Content Encounter II
Catalyst showcase demonstrating rapid service creation and lifecycle
management of blended services as well as monitoring the quality of
experience of content services. At its booth (# 107), Alcatel-Lucent will
showcase a wide range of demonstrations and solutions that help providers
deliver and manage profitable, personalized and blended services to their
customers. Alcatel-Lucent also will highlight its leading OSS/BSS and network
expertise and experience with a wide variety of IT and operations consulting
services to help customers thoroughly assess, design, deploy, and verify if
their processes are streamlined and agile for the era of transformation.

These demonstrations include:

- Methodology for Transformation: Learn key steps for
optimizing Service Delivery and Operations using IT services
methodologies and modeling as you transform to SOA.

- Monetizing Applications & Networks: Witness a location and
presence-based service delivery demonstration involving SOA-compliant
service creation and activation. See how Service Registry is used to
manage service lifecycle and used for run time governance of blended
application.

- Content to Device Assurance: Use progressive assurance techniques
to monitor, troubleshoot, and ensure quality to exceed customer
expectations for blended lifestyle services based on a SOA/SPD/IMS
environment.

- Remote Management of Home Networks: See Alcatel-Lucent's solution
for home device management (3Play home devices, Femtocell, etc.) and
associated customer support.

- Streamlined Convergent Billing & Rating: Establish flexible
billing plans for maximum revenue exploiting converged payment types
(pre-, post-, etc.), applications, and access means. One demo explains
how enterprises and consumers can control communication utilization and
costs of multimedia and fixed-mobile converged services via real-time
portals.

- Caring for Your Customers: Take part in Alcatel-Lucent's
multimedia call center solutions using state-of-the-art mobile video
support with its partner Genesys.

- Secure Your Customer's Applications: Managed operations and IT
security with best practices policies, procedures, and tools including
fourth-generation and multi-party applications.

About Alcatel-Lucent

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) provides
solutions that enable service providers, enterprise and governments
worldwide, to deliver voice, data and video communication services to
end-users. As a leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband networking,
IP technologies, applications and services, Alcatel-Lucent offers the
end-to-end solutions that enable compelling communications services for
people at home, at work and on the move. With operations in more than 130
countries, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with global reach. The company
has the most experienced global services team in the industry, and one of the
largest research, technology and innovation organizations in the
telecommunications industry. Alcatel-Lucent achieved revenues of Euro 17.8
billion in 2007 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