Alcatel-Lucent reinforces commitment to ATCA and selects the new Intel(r) Xeon(r) processor 5600 series to support future telecom and application platforms

Paris, March 16, 2010 – Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today reinforced its commitment to Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA) technology as the foundation for its next-generation telecommunication and application platforms. The company also unveiled its plans to use the forthcoming Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series in a wide variety of its future product offerings.

ATCA is a standardized architecture specifically designed to address requirements for the next generation of "carrier grade" communications equipment. ATCA specifications ensure support for high-speed networking technologies and next-generation processors, and provide for improved reliability, availability and serviceability in telecommunications and Internet equipment.

“This announcement builds on our strong, ongoing commitment to ATCA as a key foundation for our efforts to provide high performance networks that offer exceptional cost- and energy-efficiency profiles,” said Philippe Keryer, President of the Carrier Products Group at Alcatel-Lucent. “Through our early involvement with Intel in integrating the Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series into our gear, Alcatel-Lucent’s customers will benefit from the highest available performance for a standards-compliant computing platform and will enjoy reduced power demands and lower operating costs, high priorities for every service provider today.”

Alcatel-Lucent uses ATCA-based platforms in several key areas of its portfolio, in infrastructure designed to support wireless and wireline service providers, and a wide range of software-based applications. ATCA platforms incorporating the Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series could in the future provide support for a wide range of next-generation technologies, such as Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile broadband, IP multimedia subsystem (IMS), advanced subscriber data management capabilities and more.

The Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series – the latest server-oriented processor family from Intel based on a six-core microarchitecure – is a major step forward in terms of performance and power efficiency and also introduces a variety of advanced virtualization and security features. Alcatel-Lucent has found that the new series boosts performance by a factor of 15 over single-core servers and a 40 percent performance improvement over the previous generation four-core Intel® Xeon® processer 5500 series. This new processor series also will provide a significantly improved performance/power dissipation, and by doing so can substantially reduce the carbon footprint of some of Alcatel-Lucent’s products, a key requirement as the company continually drives reductions in power consumption throughout its portfolio.

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