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Paris, December 22, 2008 — Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE:
ALU) today announced that Mendocino County, Calif., has deployed an advanced
public safety network aimed at enhancing network interoperability and emergency
response with more reliable and secure communications across multiple agencies
within the county.
The new network enables Mendocino County to manage its public safety network
from a single platform, leveraging Alcatel-Lucent’s expertise in multiservice
IP, digital microwave and end-to-end network integration services to deliver
converged voice, data and video traffic.
Mendocino County encompasses an area of more than 2 million acres or
approximately 3,500 square miles. Mendocino County turned to Alcatel-Lucent for
expertise in public safety solutions capable of bridging the county’s various
agencies’ communications networks to better serve the people of the greater
community.
“Our goal was to create a network capable of converging traditional mission
critical telecom traffic with the county’s data traffic not only to meet our
needs today, but also to pave the way for new IP applications in the future,”
said Kristin McMenomey, General Services Agency Director for Mendocino County.
“A reliable public safety network is a critical service for any municipality,
and interoperability is absolutely essential to meeting that requirement. The
new public safety network will help improve efficiencies and collaborations
among the many agencies – including first responders and disaster recovery
organizations – throughout the county.”
“Alcatel-Lucent’s success in delivering public safety networks comes from
our ability to leverage our combined product and service portfolio to create
the kind of public safety network that offers the reliability and security
county officials would need during an emergency and to better serve the
citizens of Mendocino all of the time,” said Walt Paskowski, Vice President of
sales for Alcatel-Lucent’s North America industry and public safety sector.
“The solution we provided Mendocino County is another example of
Alcatel-Lucent’s unparalleled ability to provide public safety networks that
deliver converged data and voice traffic, interoperability among various
agencies and increased reliability of the critical communications.”
The Alcatel-Lucent solution is based on the MDR 8000 long-haul microwave
solution designed to support seamless migration from time division multiplexing
(TDM) to Ethernet transport over wireless transport networks. Alcatel-Lucent
also is deploying its industry-leading IP/MPLS portfolio including the
Alcatel-Lucent 7450 Ethernet Service Switch, Alcatel-Lucent 7250 Service Access
Switch and Alcatel-Lucent 5620 Service Aware Manager. Alcatel-Lucent is
providing full turnkey services, including project management, installation,
maintenance, integration, testing, consulting and design installation and
technical support services.
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