Lucent Technologies Spotlights Three Contracts in Europe for Data Networking, Communications Software
HANNOVER, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 17, 1999--
Announcements made at CeBIT, Europe's largest show for the communications industry
Lucent Technologies is announcing that it has built networks for three customers in Europe.
The company also said it is offering new software and systems for carriers and Internet services providers (ISPs) to use in their data and voice networks - including a new data networking system from JNA Communications in Australia. Lucent acquired JNA in September 1998.
The announcements were made at the CeBIT World Business Fair, the largest communications show in Europe.
Lucent has announced six agreements with customers in Europe over the last two weeks. The latest agreements include: -- A contract with Mannesmann Arcor - one of Germany's leading
communications services providers - for Lucent to provide its
intelligent networking (IN) software platform for Arcor's
nationwide network. Lucent's IN platform, which was integrated
into Arcor's existing Siemens network, enables Arcor to offer its
customers a variety of new services, such as toll-free/free
phone, shared cost and premium rate calling. -- Lucent planned, designed and built a complete, end-to-end
intelligent network for Deutsche Telefon and Marketing Services
GmbH (DTMS), a Mainz,Germany-based telemarketing specialist. The
new network, completed in three months, is being managed by
Lucent with its NetCare(R) portfolio. DTMS is using the network
to enable its business customers to outsource their telemarketing
services, and already has signed more than 200 customers. The
network is based on Lucent's 5ESS(R) Any Media(tm) Switch. -- Lucent and D&S Dialog Marketing have built Germany's first
fully functional Internet call center. The center was built for
Deutsche Genossenschafs-Hypothekenbank AG (DG HYP) in Hamburg,
one of the largest mortgage banks in Germany. DG HYP has more
than 600,000 clients - who can log into the bank's system via the Internet. DG HPT can now sell its financial products and services
by using voice and data connections simultaneously.
"All over the world, Lucent is among the leaders of the communications networking revolution now taking place. In Europe, we're winning new customers with new technologies, reliable products and broad distribution channels, and we're building our business with current customers based on our performance, reliability and new offers," said Eric van Amerongen, president and CEO of Lucent in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
"That holds true for the data networking arena, in particular," he said. "Lucent can put networks together -- data, voice, optical, wireless and access. And we offer our customers end-to-end services in network design, planning and maintenance, through our Lucent NetCare(R) Services."
Lucent will introduce several new products at CeBIT, including a powerful new suite of software that network operators can use to manage their complex data networks. Lucent's management systems work with multiple vendors' equipment and software. The company will also introduce: -- Solutions and services that will enable carriers and ISPs to have
easier and less costly access to the Internet. They will also be
able to offer their customers a broader range of features and
services. For example, Lucent's AnyMedia Access OPAL 3000, a
system developed by JNA Telecommunications Ltd., gives service
providers an economical way to offer voice and data services to
subscribers from one piece of equipment. -- A high-speed version of Lucent's WaveLAN(R) wireless local area
network. The new WaveLAN/IEEE Turbo system improves response time
for data-intensive network applications. -- A wireless end-to-end network solution, the Lucent Wireless
Internet Access Solution, that enables local exchange companies
and ISPs to offer consumers and businesses a direct high-speed
wireless connection to the Internet or to corporate intranets.
Lucent Technologies designs, builds and delivers a wide range of
public and private networks, communications systems and software,
data networking systems, business telephone systems and microelectronic components. It is one of the world's leading
suppliers of communications software. Bell Labs is the research
and development arm for the company.
Bell Labs, the innovation engine of Lucent Technologies, is a worldwide research and development community of 24,000 people in 20 countries. It is the birthplace of the transistor, laser, solar cell, digital switching, communications satellite, electrical digital computer, cellular mobile radio, long-distance TV transmission as well as many major contributions to the telecommunications network. It has received more than 25,000 patents since 1925, and today averages more than 3.5 patents per working day. Eleven scientists have been awarded the Nobel Prize for work done at Bell Labs.
The company employs a workforce of around 17,000 in 27 countries in the Europe/Middle East/Africa region, more than 2,800 of them in Germany. Research and development, production, administration and sales and service centers are located in eight major German cities
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