Alcatel-Lucent Rich Communications Manager Provides Next Generation of Unified Communications

CTIA Wireless, LAS VEGAS - Supports Alcatel-Lucent’s Application Enablement Strategy

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced
its Rich Communications Manager, delivering the next generation of unified
rich messaging through a single web portal to provide enhanced messaging and
communications to fixed, mobile, and IP devices.

With this new functionality, fixed and mobile end users can
retrieve, view, respond, and forward video, photos and text from a web portal
that also integrates address books between user devices. Leveraging familiar,
intuitive desktop concepts, subscribers can now easily drag and drop content
across voice mail, SMS, MMS, email, faxes, calendars, and address books. In
addition to eliminating the traditional barriers between various networks by
making all mobile and PC communications visible in one place, the Rich
Communications Manager eliminates multiple logins, user interfaces and
contexts defined by different messaging applications.

The Rich Communications Manager provides end users with the
convenience of accessing and managing their rich communications at home, work
and on mobile phones. It also allows them to visually see a converged message
queue, as well as originate and listen to voice mail messages online. It also
provides voice to text functionality to allow users to read a voicemail
transcription.

“The Alcatel-Lucent Rich Communications Manager gives service
providers a platform that helps them maximize the reliability, quality of
service, identity management and trusted relationship they already provide to
customers,” said Gani Nayak, President of Alcatel-Lucent’s Rich
Communications business.

“By helping our customers unify their voice communications
across multiple devices and networks — eventually integrating Web 2.0
services — Rich Communications Manager gives service providers the tools to
fundamentally improve and simplify how we communicate by integrating
different services in a single portal,” Nayak added.

The Rich Communications Manager will be showcased at the
Showstoppers event at the CTIA Wireless tradeshow and is being demonstrated
in the Alcatel-Lucent booth #6714 during the event.

At CTIA, Alcatel-Lucent is also showcasing the next generation
of the technology - a Rich Communication Suite-based ‘communications widget’
that can be leveraged in mash-ups with third party applications to provide
intuitive, trusted communications and messaging capability directly in the
third party portal. This future capability of the Rich Communication Manager
is consistent with Alcatel-Lucent’s application enablement strategy and helps
the network provider generate value by exposing communication and messaging
capabilities to developers in a managed and controlled way.

About the Alcatel-Lucent 5155 Rich Communications Manager

The Alcatel-Lucent 5155 Rich Communications Manager Release
2.1 is the first generally available release to the marketplace. It delivers
a superior Web 2.0 experience with enhanced Web messaging, providing an
online web interface for subscribers to manage their communication needs. It
enables end users to retrieve, view, respond, forward voicemails, SMS, MMS,
emails, and fax from a web portal with built-in network address book to store
all their contacts. The network address book supported is in compliance with
GSM Association Rich Communication Suite (RCS) release 1.0. The product can
also support online message management capabilities for 3rd party voicemail
systems. Leveraging an open source environment, the Rich Communications
Manager supports service creation in the future by enabling service providers
to roll out new multi-screen communications services combining messaging with
Web communications (voice, presence, chat), social networking, content and
advertisement services. For more information, please visit
www1.alcatel-lucent.com/products/productsummary.jsp?productNumber=tcm:228-1588581635

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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