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Paris, December 3, 2007 – Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE:
ALU) today announced that Brasil Telecom, one of the biggest mobile and fixed
operators in Brazil, has selected its IP/MPLS solution as the foundation for
the first converged, nation-wide network in Brasil. The Alcatel-Lucent IP/MPLS
solution will allow Brasil Telecom to offer both fixed and mobile residential
broadband, as well as business VPN services from a single platform, resulting
in improved operational simplicity, flexibility and lower costs. This
multi-million Euro contract solidifies Alcatel-Lucent as the number one IP edge
provider in Brazil for fixed carriers.
The Alcatel-Lucent IP/MPLS solution, which supports multiple service types
with superior scale, hierarchical quality of service and high availability,
will ensure Brasil Telecom meets stringent Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for
business critical services. The new network will carry IP and Ethernet-based
VPNs for enterprise customers, and will be used to cost-efficiently aggregate
Internet, video on demand and mobile backhaul traffic. The Alcatel-Lucent
solution will also support triple play services allowing Brasil Telecom to
offer the next wave of advanced services with minimal further investment and in
line with customer demand.
“Brasil Telecom has a very large subscriber base therefore we need to deploy
field-proven, scalable and highly reliable technology for our IP
transformation” said Dante Nardelli, technical planning and technology director
of Brasil Telecom. “Placing our complete services portfolio over a single,
flexible Alcatel-Lucent infrastructure allows us to reduce network complexity
and increase revenues by offering value added services to our
customers.Alcatel-Lucent also gives us the foundation for triple play services
in the future, which is important as we continue to evolve our network.”
“The Brazilian telecom market is enjoying a period of outstanding growth,
led by mobile telephony and broadband, and Brasil Telecom now has the
infrastructure in place to take advantage of this opportunity” said Cindy
Christy, President of Alcatel-Lucent’s Americas’ business. “This deal confirms
our long-standing partnership with Brasil Telecom and reinforces
Alcatel-Lucent’s position as a strong and competitive IP network provider for
all fixed Brazilian carriers.”
Alcatel-Lucent will deploy its industry-leading IP/MPLS portfolio in main
cities across 14 states in Brazil. The Alcatel-Lucent solution consists of the
7750 Service Router, 7450 Ethernet Service Switch and 5620 Service Aware
Manager (SAM). Alcatel-Lucent also will provide a comprehensive suite of
network integration services, including network optimization, system support
and general project management, as well as assisted operation services, in nine
States where Brasil Telecom operates, including the Federal District – the
Brazilian capital.
Brasil Telecom joins more than 170 service providers in over 65 countries
who have selected the Alcatel-Lucent IP portfolio. More than a dozen service
providers in Latin America have selected the Alcatel-Lucent IP solution
including
Telefonica, Antel, Telsur,
CANTV and
Telemar. According to Ovum-RHK, Alcatel-Lucent was #2 in the IP/MPLS
Edge market segment in Q1 2007, with 20% market share.
About Brasil Telecom
Brasil Telecom is the first integrated telecommunications company in Brazil
that addresses all market demands and integrates fixed, mobile, voice and data
operations, national and international long distance calls, data center, free
internet, broadband and dial access in converged solutions for your home, your
company and your city. Since 1998, Brasil Telecom provides fixed telephony
services in Federal District and in the States of Acre, Rondônia, Tocantins,
Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Goiás, Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande
do Sul. In July of 1999 it started to offer the code CSP 14 for interurban
calls and in January of 2004 the CSP 14 started to operate for all in-country
and international calls. Beyond this, the company provides high-speed Internet
connection with Turbo, which uses ADSL technology to allow you and your company
to have quick access to the network without occupying your telephony line, and
offer 100% broadband content with the providers BrTurbo and BrTurbo Empresas.
And if the need is mobility to access the wireless network, you can count with
BrTurbo ASAS. To dial access to the Internet, Brasil Telecom offers iBest, the
second biggest free provider in the Brazilian market. To reinforce even more
its position as leading provider in telecommunications, Brasil Telecom acquired
all the systems of submarine cable of optical fiber from the Globenet group,
linking connection points in the United States, the Bermudas Islands, Brazil
and Venezuela. With the acquisition of MetroRED, a service provider for the
private network of telecommunications by digital networks of optical fiber,
Brasil Telecom started to offer access to the biggest enterprise customers in
the country in the big national urban centers as São Paulo, Rio and Belo
Horizonte, in addition to Porto Alegre, Curitiba and Brasília and
internationals. Vant was also acquired with the objective of extending the
offer of solutions to enterprise market in all national territory.
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