Alcatel-Lucent Opens Developer Sandbox in the Sky

New Developer Platform and Game-Changing API Aggregation Model Open Revenue Opportunities for Developers, Service Providers and Enterprises

MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, BARCELONA, February 16, 2010 - Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today extended
its push to transform the network into a powerful platform for the delivery
of applications by announcing a new cloud-based developer platform and a
game-changing business model that flips the traditional API (application
programming interface) aggregation approach on its head. The new elements
mark a critical next step in the company's application enablement vision -
combining the trusted capabilities of service providers with the speed and
innovation of the Web to provide both consumers and business users with
richer experiences.

Alcatel-Lucent's developer platform provides service providers
and enterprises with tools that enable partners and third-party developers to
build, test, manage and distribute applications across networks, including
television, broadband Internet and mobile. Alcatel-Lucent is the first to
supply such a comprehensive cloud-based platform to open network-based
services for service providers, MSOs and enterprises which are looking for
ways to help 14+ million developers around the globe more easily adopt their
APIs. It allows service providers to securely expose their unique network
APIs to more developers than ever before. As a result, service providers and
developers can jointly facilitate the creation and delivery of thousands of
new, compelling applications. By speeding services innovation to service
provider customers, more applications will be tailored to vertical markets
and ultimately drive more revenue across the value chain.

The platform builds on the Alcatel-Lucent Application Exposure Suite
(www.alcatel-lucent.com/wps/portal/!ut/p/kcxml/04_Sj9SPykssy0xPLMnMz0vM0Y_QjzKLd4×3tXDUL8h2VAQAURh_Yw!!?LMSG_CABINET=Docs_and_Resource_Ctr&LMSG_CONTENT_FILE=News_Releases_2009/News_Article_001884.xml)
announced in December, by including a set of developer tools, a virtual
sandbox and application distribution to address the entire developer
lifecycle and support service providers and enterprises with an end-to-end
API and application solution.

Alcatel-Lucent's API aggregation and bundling model introduces
a bold new approach that enables application revenue sharing to benefit
developers, service providers and enterprises alike. The model bundles a
collection of two or more APIs/Web services that developers can use to create
a new application. The approach gives developers access to new smart API
bundles without requiring burdensome upfront API fees that until now have
been a major pain point for developers. By incenting application creation and
mobilizing the value chain in this way, network providers can attract new
developers leveraging their network assets. Developers can build audiences
for their applications, and enterprises can gain solutions to their business
challenges. The bundles are the next iteration of the Open API Service
(www.alcatel-lucent.com/wps/portal/!ut/p/kcxml/04_Sj9SPykssy0xPLMnMz0vM0Y_QjzKLd4×3tXDUL8h2VAQAURh_Yw!!?LMSG_CABINET=Docs_and_Resource_Ctr&LMSG_CONTENT_FILE=News_Releases_2009/News_Article_001884.xml)
the company announced in December 2009.

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To support the adoption of the API bundle model,
Alcatel-Lucent also unveiled two new developer tools - a virtual sandbox and
a dashboard. The Virtual Sandbox provides developers with a comprehensive
environment in which they can simulate, test and verify new applications
across service provider networks for delivery across a wide range of
platforms. Developed through Alcatel-Lucent's extensive engagement with
customers worldwide, the Virtual Sandbox helps provide a scalable and
comprehensive testing ground to accelerate development, distribution and
deployment of new services.

The Dashboard offers developers real-time business analysis of
application activity, API statistics, costs and the revenue potential of
applications. Using the dashboard, developers can explore the various
business model options associated with a given service and make an educated
determination about its relative value and revenue potential before
committing significant time or expense to creating the application. It also
can be used to track the success metrics of an application over time.

"We're in this to help everyone in the application ecosystem
make money," said Johnson Agogbua, head of Application Enablement solutions
for Alcatel-Lucent. "The research we've done with more than 1,000 developers
shows that the bundled approach to aggregation could drive up an API's value
by 200-300 percent versus its value on its own. It also shows that developers
want to participate in API revenue sharing and have access to service
provider analytics."

"Developers would love to have access to the key functionality
of a service provider's network through easy to use web-centric APIs, as well
as business modeling tools," said Tobias Kemper, vice president of Nimbuzz
Inc., USA, a mobile VoIP operator & social network aggregator.
"Alcatel-Lucent's developer program and platform delivers this by providing
an extensive test environment and analysis tools to take some of the
guess-work out of the planning process and enables developers to do what they
do best - leverage functionality from various sources (handsets, network, the
Web) and mash them up with their own unique innovations to create powerful
new applications for the next generation of mobile web users."

Alcatel-Lucent will showcase these initiatives at the Mobile
World Congress Tradeshow and Exhibition, (February 15 - 18, 2010 Barcelona,
Spain) in the "Application Planet" Hall 7, booth #7D61.

About Alcatel-Lucent's Application Enablement strategy

Application enablement is an industry vision and network approach that
combines the trusted capabilities of network operators and the speed and
innovation of the web to provide end users and enterprises what they demand:
a richer and more trusted web experience and beyond. Through a strategic
focus on application enablement, Alcatel-Lucent is helping its customers
create new value by exposing their network capabilities in a managed and
controlled way, facilitating new business models and improving return on
investment. For more information, go to
www.alcatel-lucent.com/application_enablement/

About Alcatel-Lucent

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) is the trusted
transformation partner of service providers, enterprises, strategic
industries such as defense, energy, healthcare, transportation, 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 15.2
billion in 2009 and is incorporated in France, with executive offices located
in Paris. For more information, visit Alcatel-Lucent on the Internet:
www.alcatel-lucent.com

Peter Benedict, Tel: +33(0)1-40-76-50-84, peter.benedict at alcatel-lucent.com; Mark Hudson, Tel: +1-405-844-68-27, mfhudson at alcatel-Lucent.com; Alcatel-Lucent Investor Relations: Rémi Thomas, Tel: +33(0)1-40-76-50-61, remi.thomas at alcatel-lucent.com; Tom Bevilacqua, Tel: +1-908-582-7998, bevilacqua at alcatel-lucent.com; Tony Lucido, Tel: +1-908-582-5722, alucido at alcatel-lucent.com; Don Sweeney, Tel: +1-908-582-6153, dsweeney at alcatel-lucent.com