PARIS, September 8 /PRNewswire/ --     Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced
it has been placed in the leaders quadrant of the recently published Gartner
"Magic Quadrant for Corporate Telephony". For the first time, the report
evaluates corporate telephony vendors from a global rather than regional
perspective.

The Gartner report recognizes that the market is evolving
"from one of proprietary hardware to one of standards-based software" that
provides companies the opportunity to "use IP telephony to deliver business
benefits across the organization, while consolidating technologies around a
common technology or solution provider, or selection of providers and their
partners."

Alcatel-Lucent telephony solutions are based on open-standards
and provide a range of solutions for voice and video conferencing,
collaboration, unified messaging, unified communications, wireless
communications, and applications for small to medium businesses and large
enterprises. As a global company, Alcatel-Lucent provides businesses with
consistent national and regional deployments of global solutions and the
option of single supplier installations that transparently interconnect
disparate locations.

According to the Gartner report, "Market leaders demonstrate
strength and can affect market trends in all the criteria on which they are
evaluated. Leaders tend to have broad geographical coverage across the globe
or particular strengths in one or more key global markets."

Alcatel-Lucent is helping its customers to become increasingly
dynamic enterprises by providing communications solutions that strengthen
relationships, simplify interaction, and improve performance. State of the
art networks, streamlined processes, real-time collaboration and improved
access to information help turn every interaction into a business
opportunity.

About The Magic Quadrant

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2008 by Gartner, Inc. and is
reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a
marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis
of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as
defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service
depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to
select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic
Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a
specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or
implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of
merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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 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