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Lucent to support Telefonica IPTV worldwide(DMEurope Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)DMEUROPE-20 April 2006-Lucent to support Telefonica IPTV worldwide (C)2006 DMeurope.com (http://www.dmeurope.com) & DME Ltd. All rights reserved. US telecoms supplier Lucent Technologies and Spanish telco Telefonica have reached an agreement under which Lucent will support Telefonica's IPTV service rollouts worldwide. The agreement was signed today in Miami, Florida, by Telefonica's Chairman and CEO Cesar Alierta and Lucent's Chairman and CEO Patricia Russo. Lucent, soon to merge with Alcatel, will assume responsibility for the future development and deployment of Telefonica's 'Imagenio' IPTV middleware platform, including the ongoing introduction of new features and capabilities. Lucent also will market the platform to the broader global service provider community. In support of this effort, Lucent will establish IPTV research and development (R&D) centres linked to Bell Labs in the Spanish cities of Madrid and Huesca, as well as in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo for Latin American markets. In addition, Lucent Worldwide Services, the company s services arm, will serve as the prime network integrator for Telefonica's end-to-end, multi-vendor IPTV solution, initially in markets including Brazil, Chile, the Czech Republic and Spain. The project will be extended to include additional countries in the future. Telefonica's Imagenio IPTV service is a commercial IPTV service offering which provides all-digital delivery of TV and audio content to subscribers in Spain. |