Lucent Technologies Wins Data Networking Contract In China

Business Wire, Nov 11, 1998

BEIJING, China--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 11, 1998--

Lucent to supply million of dollars of data networking products and

services to the State Postal Bureau

Lucent Technologies today announced that it is one of the vendors selected by the State Postal Bureau of the People's Republic of China to supply Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) equipment to its China Postnet project, the postal bureau's wide area integrated services network.

The multi-million-dollar contract is one of Lucent's largest data networking wins in the Asia Pacific and China region since Lucent announced its data networking initiatives in the region in mid -1998. Lucent will supply its PacketStar(tm) AC 120 multiservice access switch which will be installed at the ATM backbone of the State Postal Bureau's wide area network. In addition to the PacketStar AC 120, Lucent will also supply its network management product portfolio.

"This is a significant and strategic win for Lucent in Asia Pacific and China," said Randy Yeh, Chairman, Lucent Technologies China. "With this win in the data networking space, we have demonstrated that Lucent is a key and formidable player in the voice and data convergence market."

According to the State Postal Bureau, it chose Lucent's ATM and network management solutions because the systems can support a diversity of current and future service needs, enabling the State Postal Bureau to provision a best-in-class network that is both robust and reliable, and cost effective. Lucent's PacketStar AC 120 is a true multiservice ATM access switch that allows customers like the State Postal Bureau to aggregate a variety of lower speed services into a high-speed Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) infrastructure. The PacketStar AC 120 provides support for services such as T1/E1, frame relay and ethernet, allowing network managers to transport voice, data and video applications over a corporate ATM wide area network.

The contract also includes Lucent's network management products which provide network and element management, enabling customers to centralize management of their voice, data and mixed media in a multi-vendor network environment.

The State Postal Bureau currently operates and manages an integrated postal service network in China, with more than 500,000 employees. The State Postal Bureau achieved total market revenue of RMB27.3 billion (approximately US$3.2 billion) in 1997 - a 52.73% increase over the previous year.

Lucent Technologies, based in Murray Hill, New Jersey, designs, builds, and delivers a wide-range products for public and private networks, communications systems and software, data networking systems, business telephone systems, and microelectronics components. Bell Laboratories, the research and development arm of the company, has produced many world-renowned innovations.

Lucent Technologies China has seven regional offices, six joint ventures and two wholly-owned companies, and it manufactures a full array of telecommunications network equipment. It has a work force of over 3,000 employees and has developed a network of offices and ventures to serve the entire Chinese market.

Further information about Lucent Technologies is available on the company's web site at http://www.lucent.com