Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Forum challenges organisations: Become a Dynamic Enterprise

Sydney, March 4, 2009 — Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that CEO Ben Verwaayen will deliver the keynote presentation at the Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Forum customer event on March 4. The presentation will be broadcast live via the web at 10am CET/Paris. The Enterprise Forum, in its 19^th year, is a major meeting point for enterprise customers, service providers, distributors and application developers from around the world. This year’s Forum takes place March 4 and 5 at the Palais des Congreś, Porte Maillot, Paris.

Additional information about Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Forum 2009

The main topics at this year’s event are built around helping businesses to Become a Dynamic Enterprise, one in which communications-enabled business capabilities supported by innovative technology and applications from Alcatel-Lucent help companies generate new revenue and reduce costs.  

New technology/Cool Apps

Alcatel-Lucent will demonstrate recently introduced touchatag technology, an innovation from Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs being commercialised by Alcatel-Lucent Ventures where the system uses near-field communication technology to connect objects with online applications. Using this technology, visitors at Forum will be able to simply touch specialised badges to receive audio descriptions of selected demonstrations through their mobile phones. Rather than toting around plastic bags full of brochures and white papers, documentation relating to demos and conferences can be collected with touchatag and stored in a “digital bag” accessible through a personal Internet page.

Additional highlights will include demonstrations of the award-winning OmniAcesss 3500 Nonstop Laptop Guardian mobility solution, new applications for the company’s unified communications portfolio, and customer testimonials of successfully deployed communications solutions linking the network, people, process and knowledge.  

Speakers:

·         Ben Verwaayen, CEO, Alcatel-Lucent

·         Tom Burns, President of Enterprise Product Group, Alcatel-Lucent

·         Peter Sondergaard, Senior Vice-President, Gartner Research

·         Steven Shepard, Founder, Shepard Communications Group

When

·         Wednesday, March 4, 2009

·         10am CMT / 5pm Beijing /webcast to be rebroadcast

To attend the webcast or for more information on Forum please go to:

http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/enterprise-forum

This year, groups on LinkedIn, Twitter, and other social networking sites are extending the discussion beyond the physical Forum event.

About the Alcatel-Lucent dynamic enterprise vision

Alcatel-Lucent helps enterprises worldwide turn every interaction into a business opportunity. By interconnecting their core assets -- network, people, processes and knowledge -- dynamic enterprises realize competitive advantage through strengthened relationships, simplified communications, and improved performance.

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: http://www.alcatel-lucent.com

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