Yangtze Communications Bureau Selects Lucent Technologies to Build Network to Monitor Its Water Transportation Network.

BEIJING -- Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) today announced that Yangtze Communications Bureau has selected Lucent's next-generation optical solutions to improve the communications system in its Yangtze Shipboard and Offshore Communications Network. This marks the first deployment of Lucent's networking solutions in China's water conservancy and transportation market. The project will be jointly implemented with Wuhan Yangtze Optical Communications, an authorized business partner of Lucent Technologies.

Yangtze Communications Bureau is the administrative authority for communications networks that support the daily operation of harbors and shipping companies along the Yangtze River, the most important inland waterway in China. The bureau needed a converged network to meet increasing demands for multiple high-speed data services. It also, required a higher level of security and reliability to meet the critical communications demands of water transportation. Lucent is supplying the Metropolis(R) ADM Universal MultiService Mux and Navis(R) Optical Management System in the network from Yichang to Hankou that spans approximately 650 kilometers.

"The contract marks another breakthrough for Lucent China in the enterprise market. As a leading provider of optical transport equipment, Lucent's cutting-edge technologies and products have been deployed in a wide range of industry sectors including telecom, broadcasting, petrochemical, electric power, metro transportation, and public security. Businesses around the world are benefiting from carrier-class products and services we delivered," said Gaylord Huang, executive vice president, Business Partner and Software Sales, Lucent Technologies China, and president, Lucent Technologies Qingdao.

Lucent's Metropolis(R) ADM MultiService Mux and network management software will help Yangtze Communications Bureau build a cost-effective multi-service transmission network that delivers voice, data and video traffic with enhanced capacity and service quality equivalent to the telecommunications network. Lucent's optical solution also will help the customer optimize the communication systems used for the data acquisition, video monitoring and video conferencing, and control and command systems required in the company's daily operations.

The Metropolis(R) ADM MultiService Mux is part of the Lucent Metropolis(R) family of metro optical solutions designed to eliminate bottlenecks in existing metro networks. It is an integrated Ethernet over SDH metro access multiplexer, which enables service providers to migrate seamlessly from existing networks to data-aware packet networks. Adding data services to optical networks increases revenue potential for customers and helps them offer a wide variety of new Ethernet services. Metropolis (R) ADM integrates seamlessly into carriers' existing infrastructure, avoiding the need for an overlay network built for new services. Its low power consumption and small footprint helps carriers save on operating expenses.

Lucent's Navis(R) Optical Management System (OMS) is part of Lucent's award-winning software portfolio of open, standards-based network, service and IT management systems deployed worldwide for multi-vendor and converged networks.

For more information on Lucent's metro optical solutions: 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.

Lucent China has eight regional offices, two Bell Labs branches, five R&D facilities and a number of joint ventures and wholly owned enterprises. Currently, the company has approximately 4,000 employees in China and manufactures a full array of telecommunications network equipment and solutions that serves the Chinese and international markets. For more information on Lucent China, visit its web site at http://www.lucent.com.cn.