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B-Telecom Selects Lucent Technologies for Access Equipment to Enable Ethernet Services Rollout across Belgium

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    GROOT-BIJGAARDEN, Belgium--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 8, 2005--

Lucent to work with business partner Imtech Telecom to provide metro Ethernet infrastructure
    Lucent Technologies (NYSE:LU) today announced that it has been selected by B-Telecom, a leading service provider based in Belgium, to provide multiservice optical networking infrastructure to support its roll-out of Ethernet services to its business customers.
    The deployment enables B-Telecom to provide revenue-generating services such as transparent Ethernet Private Lines and Ethernet Private LAN Services as well as managed IP services using Lucent's proven Ethernet over SDH (synchronous digital hierarchy) solution. Lucent is working with business partner Imtech Telecom to support the implementation of these services as well as to assure the 24-hour, seven-day a week maintenance services with a four hour response time.
    "We selected Lucent as a market leader in the development and understanding of Ethernet over SDH," said Roland Matthys, Manager - Marketing & Sales for B-Telecom. "Working with Lucent and Imtech Telecom for this project will ensure that we are able to offer secure, reliable, flexible and cost-competitive services to our customers."
    "This is an example of Lucent continuing to work closely with customers to identify relevant, profitable and cost effective means of creating revenue generating services for their end users," said Beatrice Duleba, Sales Director, Business Partner France & Belgium, Lucent Technologies. "We look forward to working with B-Telecom as they develop their service offerings."
    The Lucent solution is designed to create a service converged platform by working with existing optical networking infrastructure to offer cost-effective multiservice support without the expense of creating and maintaining a separate overlay data network. B-Telecom is one of the first service providers to have deployed Ethernet over SDH services in Belgium.
    "Imtech Telecom, already being a technical partner of B-Telecom for optical services delivery combined with its deep knowledge and broad expertise on optical networking as well as a solid key-vendor relationship with Lucent, has strongly contributed to B-Telecom's decision to select the Lucent solutions," said Filip Simoens, General Manager of Imtech Telecom. "Therefore we are looking forward to make this roll-out of Ethernet services a great success for B-Telecom."
    Lucent is providing B-Telecom with its high-speed platform that combines the speed and reliability of optical backbones with proven and ubiquitous Ethernet technology that is the standard in local area networks. The Metropolis(R) AM and Metropolis(R) AMS multiplexers equipped with TransLAN(R) optional cards for Ethernet transport capability between customers' businesses in multiple locations, form the basis of Lucent's access SDH solution.
    Lucent's TransLAN(R) technology is available across the whole managed SDH Metropolis(R) product portfolio ranging from access to core. The TransLAN(R) platform can also be extended by B-Telecom to offer Gigabit Ethernet services in the future. For more information: http://www.lucent.com/solutions/metro_optical.html

    About Lucent Technologies

    Lucent Technologies designs and delivers the systems, services and software that drive next-generation communications networks. Backed by Bell Labs research and development, Lucent uses its strengths in mobility, optical, software, data and voice networking technologies, as well as services, to create new revenue-generating opportunities for its customers, while enabling them to quickly deploy and better manage their networks. Lucent's customer base includes communications service providers, governments and enterprises worldwide. For more information on Lucent Technologies, which has headquarters in Murray Hill, N.J., USA, visit www.lucent.com.

    About Imtech Telecom

    Imtech Telecom is a pan-European telecom network integrator for carrier-class fixed and mobile networks. Imtech Telecom is part of the group Imtech NV. Imtech N.V. is a European technical service provider in the field of information and communication technology, electrical engineering & mechanical engineering. With approximately 14,000 employees Imtech realizes an annual turnover of approximately 2.0 billion Euro. Imtech holds strong positions in the construction, maritime technology, infrastructure and telecoms markets in Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg and The Netherlands and is also active in the U.K. and Spain. Imtech shares are listed at the Euronext Stock Exchange (Amsterdam), where Imtech is included in the Midkap index (AMX) and the Next 150 index. For more information on Imtech Telecom, visit www.imtech-telecom.be

    About B-Telecom

    B-Telecom is the commercial department of the Belgian Railways that provides the Belgian market with telecom services based on its optical network. More than 200,000 km of optical fibres cover virtually the entire country, including the major ports and leading industrial and commercial centres. The telecom services offered by B-Telecom are based on secure SDH rings, able to cope with E1, E3, T3, STM-1 and STM-4 circuits allowing the provision of Ethernet services and the implementation of DWDM technology suitable for specific applications such as Gigabit Ethernet, FICON, ESCON, Fibre Channel, etc.
    Key customers of B-Telecom are telecom operators, large-scale industry, banks, ministries, public services organisations and more. For more information on B-Telecom, visit www.telecomrail.com

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CONTACT: Lucent Technologies Europe Martina Gruger-Buhs +49 (0) 228 243-1230 - Office +49 (0) 160 74 36 223 - Mobile grueger@lucent.com or Lucent Technologies France Alain Viallix +33 (0) 1 41 28 71 14 - Office +33 (0) 6 80 6476 03 - Mobile aviallix@lucent.com

KEYWORD: NEW JERSEY FRANCE BELGIUM INTERNATIONAL EUROPE INDUSTRY KEYWORD: COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKING MARKETING AGREEMENTS SOURCE: Lucent Technologies

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