Alcatel-Lucent Directory Server to Enable Service Providers to Offer Personalized Mobile Communication and Web 2.0 Applications to Consumers and Businesses

PARIS - Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced
the 8661 Directory Server, a high-performance service enablement platform for
the creation of personalized Web 2.0 and communications services over
wireline and mobile networks - all while enhancing service quality and
reducing time to market.

Acting as a centralized real-time storage platform for
subscriber data, this directory server, developed by UnboundID Corporation
and sold to service providers exclusively by Alcatel-Lucent, is network
independent and is able to simultaneously enhance a variety of services
including mobile media, entertainment, social networking, advertisement and
productivity applications through the centralization of personal, identity,
and privacy preference user information - securely and in real time.

For example, with this new product an American visitor to
Germany will see Web pages in English — as the network knows the user’s
language preference. Or, if the directory server knows that a subscriber is a
fan of a particular coffee store’s drink, the subscriber could benefit from a
personalized service that tracks his location and preference and, when close
to a location, receives directions to the closest store along with an
electronic coupon.

Consistent with Alcatel-Lucent’s approach to application
enablement, the directory server features a set of open APIs that the service
provider can leverage to develop new services quickly, or can choose to share
with third-party application developers. In either case, new end user
services are quickly developed and deployed by securely leveraging the
Directory Server’s open standards and interfaces through a Lightweight
Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Software Development Kit.

“Alcatel-Lucent’s 8661 Directory Server complements the
Alcatel-Lucent Subscriber Data Management portfolio and will allow
communication service providers to rapidly create highly personalized
applications,” said Peter Mottishaw, Principle Analyst, OSS Observer, an
Analysys Mason company. “Directory services are becoming increasingly
important to the creation and delivery of personalized services and an area
where service providers can add value. By bringing to market a high
performance Directory Server, Alcatel-Lucent is in a strong position to
bridge the subscriber data divide between the network and IT domains.”

Where existing solutions must access individual subscriber
databases using unique protocols or consolidate subscriber data in batches so
at any time the data base can be hours or days old, the directory server
addresses all protocols in a single query to retrieve real-time subscriber
data. This enhances the end user experience by leveraging in real-time the
individual subscriber preferences such as choice of mobile device, preferred
language, friends and family distribution lists, highlighting favorite
channels, and advertising preferences as they are noted by the system. This
real-time functionality also addresses the time-sensitive demands for data
critical applications such as customer service, patient care and accounting
applications.

“Alcatel-Lucent and UnboundID Corporation collaborated in the
development and testing of the this new product to streamline how
applications access identity data to deliver personalized services that could
not be easily or affordably provided in the past,” said Jeff Cortley,
President of Alcatel-Lucent’s Subscriber Data Management business. “The
result of our work will fill an existing marketplace void by delivering an
LDAP platform that meets today’s carrier-grade, scalability and reliability
network requirements while avoiding a monolithic physical data repository.
This enables new services that combine real-time user context awareness of
the network with the subscriber identity, profile, and service data residing
in the IT applications platform.”

“We are pleased to be collaborating with Alcatel-Lucent to
quickly bring this advanced product to market,” said Don Bowen, UnboundID
co-founder and Vice President of Marketing. “By centralizing the storage of
subscriber identity, persona and privacy preferences, the Directory Server
not only reduces complexity while greatly increasing manageability, but also
can reduce equipment and data storage by up to 80 percent, dramatically
lowering the total cost of ownership.”

Bowen noted that this directory server offers a three to five
times increase in read and write performance versus competing products.

Alcatel-Lucent is a leader in subscriber data management,
providing solutions for data centralization, virtualization and federation to
customers worldwide, supporting more than three quarters of a billion
subscribers.

For more information on this product please visit:
www1.alcatel-lucent.com/products/productsummary.jsp?productNumber=tcm%3A228-1508671635

About UnboundID Corporation

UnboundID Corp. is an emerging leader in the field of
next-generation identity management software. The company’s Directory
Services 2.0 technology offerings help organizations meet the demands of
Internet-driven, consumer facing architectures. UnboundID is a privately held
company based in Austin, Texas and is funded by Silverton Partners. For more
information, visit www.unboundid.com.

About Alcatel-Lucent

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) is the trusted
partner of service providers, enterprises and governments worldwide,
providing solutions that to deliver voice, data and video communication
services to end-users. A leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband
networking, IP technologies, applications and services, Alcatel-Lucent
leverages the unrivalled technical and scientific expertise of Bell Labs, one
of the largest innovation powerhouses in the communications industry. With
operations in more than 130 countries and the most experienced global
services organization in the industry, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with
a global reach. Alcatel-Lucent achieved revenues of Euro 16.98 billion in
2008 and is incorporated in France, with executive offices located in Paris.
For more information, visit Alcatel-Lucent on the Internet:
www.alcatel-lucent.com

Source: Alcatel-Lucent

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