Alcatel-Lucent Innovations Help Wireless Service Providers Integrate CDMA and LTE Services on the Same Network

CTIA Wireless, LAS VEGAS - Enables Service Providers Offer Broadband Services Everywhere,
While Reducing Their Power Consumption and Carbon Footprint

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) has expanded its
wireless networking portfolio to enable mobile service providers to offer
both 3G CDMA and Long Term Evolution (LTE) services using a common network
infrastructure. Alcatel-Lucent’s innovative “Converged RAN” (radio access
network) offerings support the delivery of a wide variety of new wireless
broadband services while simultaneously reducing power consumption - and
attendant carbon footprint — and lowering operating costs.

Alcatel-Lucent’s Converged RAN offerings build on
Alcatel-Lucent’s long-standing commitment to support multiple technology
standards in a common base station platform, helping ensure that investments
made today will be protected in the future as networks evolve. One of the key
elements of the Converged RAN is the software defined radio (SDR) technology
which has been available on the current Alcatel-Lucent base stations for a
number of years already. The SDR enables CDMA service providers to deploy one
technology today and then upgrade smoothly to a more advanced standard, such
as LTE, in the future, or even introduce both technologies in the same
existing base station simultaneously.

The latest addition to Alcatel-Lucent’s
Converged RAN portfolio is the Alcatel-Lucent 9238 Base Station Macro, a new
platform that relies on the SDR which is integrated with the amplifiers to
provide optimal power efficiency. The architecture enables CDMA and/or LTE
baseband units to be mixed and matched in the same cabinet to support a
variety of technology combinations. Multiple frequencies and frequency
combinations will be supported in a single footprint, making the 9238 Base
Station Macro an extremely flexible product that is ideally suited to help
operators refresh and/or renovate their networks.

In addition to its flexibility and
performance benefits, the new platform can dramatically reduce operational
expenses. Through a combination of improved reliability, greatly reduced
power consumption — nearly 75 percent over earlier generations of equipment
– and use of common components to minimize the need for spares, the platform
offers an array of cost benefits.

“With the newest additions to our CDMA Converged Base Station
portfolio, Alcatel-Lucent has demonstrated once again our unwavering
commitment to giving our customers optimum flexibility as they expand and
evolve their wireless broadband service offerings,” said Sandy Motley, head
of Alcatel-Lucent’s CDMA/EV-DO activities. “By providing a smooth evolution
path to LTE, ensuring maximum re-use of equipment and dramatically reducing
energy consumption, we also are helping our customers lower their carbon
footprint while at the same time returning cash to their bottom line through
reduced operating costs.”

Key elements of Alcatel-Lucent’s CDMA Converged Base Station
portfolio are being demonstrated in the company’s booth #6714 at the CTIA
Wireless Tradeshow and Exhibition at the Las Vegas Convention center from
April 1 - April 4.

About Alcatel-Lucent’s Ultimate Wireless Broadband End-to-End
solution:

The CDMA Converged Base Station portfolio is a fundamental
pillar of Alcatel-Lucent’s Ultimate Wireless Broadband End-to-End solution.
This comprehensive solution enables wireless and converged services providers
to advance their business, operational model and end-to-end network. It
provides an end-to-end LTE network with a full set of LTE and IP products,
transformation and integration services, plus the ng hConnect open ecosystem
of devices, content and application partners. This solution brings
Alcatel-Lucent’s broadband and IP market leadership to deliver unprecedented
scalability, quality of experience, business agility, and controlled network
costs. For more information: www.alcatel-lucent.com/lte

About Alcatel-Lucent

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) is the trusted
partner of service providers, enterprises and governments worldwide,
providing solutions 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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