[October 10, 2001]

Lucent Debuts Multiservice Switch Enabling Service Providers To Reduce Operating Costs, Generate New Revenue

Lucent Technologies announced the newest member of its market-leading multiservice media gateway line, enabling service providers to deliver to enterprise customers converged voice, data and video applications across the broadband technology of choice while reducing their overall network operations costs in their wireless and wire-line networks.

The PacketStar (PSAX) 1000 Multiservice Media Gateway is a high-density, low cost, broadband multiservice switch targeted at global service providers demanding many of the features found in higher-end core or edge switching platforms such as carrier-grade reliability and redundancy as well as a host of multi-networking capabilities--access concentration, voice processing, voice over Digital Subscriber Line (VoDSL), and IP services--in the industry's smallest, most affordable footprint.

"As a key component in Lucent's evolving Service Intelligent network strategy, the PacketStar (PSAX) 1000 is an exciting new addition to Lucent's multiservice media gateway line because it offers unsurpassed value to our wireless and wire-line customers, enabling them to significantly reduce operations costs and offer high margin, managed services today." said Gary Monetti, area vice president of marketing for Access Technologies in Lucent Technologies' Integrated Network Solutions business unit.

The 2 RU (rack unit) high PacketStar (PSAX) 1000, measuring 3.5 inches and 8.9 centimeters long, is specifically targeted at service providers looking to penetrate two rapidly growing markets: the multi-tenant unit (MTU market)-which is expected to grow to $6.6 billion this year--and the wireless backhaul market.

The high-performance, carrier-grade features and compact footprint of the PacketStar (PSAX) 1000 are ideal for mobile operators trying to significantly reduce recurring expenses on their T-1/E-1 and T-3/E-3 wireless backhaul costs and which are also evolving their 2.5G and 3G next-generation wireless networks.

With the PacketStar (PSAX) 1000 media gateway, mobile operators will be able to save on recurring facilities costs by concentrating private-line T-1 and E-1 facilities into a single high speed or IMA (Inverse Multiplexing over ATM) facility over an ATM link, saving as much as 47 percent in overall operations costs. The PacketStar (PSAX) 1000 can also support the AAL5 to AAL2 function to further improve backhaul efficiencies over traditional circuit-switched backhaul techniques. This solution also increases long-haul T-1/T-3 network capacity. With the PacketStar (PSAX) 1000, service providers will be able to offer enterprise customers service intelligent managed network services such as IP virtual private networks (VPNs) as well as managed voice, native ATM and frame relay services.

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