PARIS, June 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- Alcatel-Lucent has Already Announced the Deployment of More Than 50
TPSDA Networks

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext: Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced
several new enhancements to its Triple Play Service Delivery Architecture
(TPSDA) which pave the way for new, sophisticated and innovative multimedia
services. Going beyond the initial, mass-market solution requirements for
IPTV, voice and Internet services, the new architecture enhancements now
enable consumers and business partners to choose the quality of experience
they want, for the content they care about and at a price they are prepared
to pay.

As service providers evolve their network architectures to
support triple play consumer broadband services, their focus is shifting to
maximising the return on investment. The new features being introduced today
- including new hardware and software enhancements for Alcatel-Lucent's
Service Router portfolio - will enable service providers to offer their
subscribers a high quality of experience for an expanded portfolio of
broadband content and applications.

"Our successful IPTV service depends on the scale, stability
and quality of our TPSDA-based network," said Helmut Leopold, head of
platform and technology management at Telekom Austria AG. "We like
Alcatel-Lucent's direction because it allows us to expand the service
revenues generated by our strategic investment."

Alcatel-Lucent's Triple Play Service Delivery Architecture,
the next generation blue print for triple play infrastructure, represents a
significant upgrade from first-generation broadband network solutions - that
tunnel "best effort" Internet traffic across the network - by providing
distributed, fine-grain policy enforcement with centralised policy control to
deliver multiple services to subscribers, including managed services such as
IPTV and voice as well as unmanaged services such as High Speed Internet
(HSI). TPSDA is unique in utilising all parts of the network to deliver and
enforce policy end-to-end.

"The rise of a broad array of rich online services and
applications delivered over triple play networks is changing how service
providers must architect the network," said David Vorhaus, Associate Analyst,
Yankee Group. "By taking a high-touch approach to managing subscriber
preferences and application requirements such as with Alcatel-Lucent's TPSDA,
triple play providers can deliver a superior online experience and provide
additional value to subscribers, content owners, application providers,
advertisers and other key actors in the value chain."

With its recent announcement of terabit performance upgrades
for the 7450 Ethernet Service Switch and 7750 Service Router, Alcatel-Lucent
extends the revenue generating capabilities of TPSDA by supporting 2.5 times
the capacity in the same compact footprint without any change to the existing
common control modules. In addition, an expanded portfolio of managed on-line
broadband content services can be enabled by fine-grain application
assurance, based on Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology and fully
integrated within the TPSDA subscriber management system. Finally, targeted
software enhancements, including support for PPPoE termination, provide a
smooth, staged migration of legacy HSI services and revenue onto a carrier's
strategic triple play consumer broadband network, thereby enabling operators
to cap investment in their legacy Broadband Remote Access Server (BRAS).

"Alcatel-Lucent has already announced the deployment of more
than 50 TPSDA networks and recently announced the world's first terabit
service router which provides the massive capacity required for ubiquitous
high-definition video content and services", said Basil Alwan, president of
Alcatel-Lucent's IP activities. "With today's product enhancements we are
providing the technological innovation that is the foundation for the next
phase of carrier network, service and business transformation."

The hardware and software enhancements to the Alcatel-Lucent
Service Router Portfolio include:

- IOM3-XP, which provides a 2.5 increase in capacity and density

- Application Assurance-Integrated Services Adaptor (AA-ISA),
which enables fine-grain application policy enforcement with per-subscriber
resolution

- High-Scale Media Dependent Adaptor (HS-MDA), which sets a
new industry benchmark in granular queuing and traffic management - the
equivalent of 19.2 million queues per telecom rack, enabling specific policy
and control for each service delivered to a subscriber. More granular queuing
enables more fine-grain service control to ensure each service is delivered
with the appropriate Quality of Experience (QoE) and uses network resources
in the most efficient manner

- Point to Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) tunnel
termination, which facilitates the smooth migration of legacy HSI transport
networks and their present mode of operation to next-generation TPSDA
networks

- 5670 Reporting and Analysis Manager (RAM), which provides
extensive tools and capabilities to warehouse, aggregate and process
detailed, application-level statistics per-subscriber

Alcatel-Lucent is the leader in end-to end-triple play
networks, currently deploying its TPSDA with worldwide operators,
municipalities and utilities. Alcatel-Lucent IP/MPLS solutions have been
selected by more than 200 service providers in more than 90 countries. During
the first quarter of 2008, Alcatel-Lucent reinforced its #2 position in
IP/MPLS edge garnering 18% of the market according to Ovum-RHK. For more
information, please visit:

http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/ipnews

About Alcatel-Lucent

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) provides
solutions that enable service providers, enterprises 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 organisations 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