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More than 200 customers leverage continuous
innovation in ISAM family
Broadband World Forum Europe, Brussels, September 30, 2008 –
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today confirmed the ongoing
evolution of its industry-leading Intelligent Services Access Manager (ISAM)
portfolio of IP broadband access products, providing access to the most
innovative offerings of voice, video and data services for tens of millions of
end-users around the world already.
Since its launch four years ago, continuous innovations have turned the ISAM
family into the ultimate reference platform that addresses increasing bandwidth
and service delivery requirements, enabling multiple TV/video streams
(including HDTV in conjunction with high-speed Internet access, VoIP and gaming
applications) as well as IP-based multimedia services (IMS). More than 200
service providers worldwide have adopted the ISAM platform.
Over the years, the ISAM family - a major building block of Alcatel-Lucent’s
Triple Play Service Delivery Architecture (TPSDA) - has continuously evolved to
support a flexible mix of future-proof access technologies (xDSL, VDSL2, GPON,
P2P Ethernet) and a variety of network topologies (central office as well as
remote architectures).
The Alcatel-Lucent ISAM product family provides an unsurpassed IPTV
experience, earning a five-star rating for video and QoS support (Current
Analysis assessments of December 2007 and September 2008, respectively), as
well as a cost-effective migration to packet-based voice, thereby offering
support for any type of voice application – from Class 5 to full NGN
architectures. The ISAM family is widely recognized for its ongoing
innovations, the most recent being the groundbreaking Smart DSL technology, as
well as its distributed DSLAM and virtual ONT concepts.
Having surpassed the 200th customer milestone, Alcatel-Lucent’s ISAM
platform is deployed at many of the leading service providers (such as
AT&T, Belgacom, Hanaro Telecom, Hong Kong Broadband Network Limited, KPN,
NeufCegetel, NTELOS, Swisscom and Telstra), as well as a considerable number of
utility companies (NRGi Fibernet, Jönköping Energi, Bristol Virginia Utilities)
and municipalities and regions around the world (Arvidsjaur and Tidaholm in
Sweden, Lincoln County in US and Asturias in Spain).
“As the next-generation fixed access market continues to evolve, two factors
remain constant. The first is Alcatel-Lucent’s ongoing ability to establish new
benchmarks for access technology performance; the second is the company’s
corresponding ability to generate the ultimate validation for its access
solutions, specifically, unmatched customer and market success,” said Erik M.
Keith, Principal Analyst for Broadband Infrastructure at Current Analysis.
“With this latest milestone achievement, Alcatel-Lucent has once again
demonstrated its ability to defend its fixed access leadership, despite an
acutely competitive market.”
“Since its launch four years ago, the ISAM family has been adopted by at
least one customer per week, consolidating our undisputed number one position
in IP broadband access,” said Luis Martinez Amago, President of
Alcatel-Lucent’s fixed access activities.
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