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Las Vegas, November 11, 2010 – Alcatel-Lucent’s (Euronext Paris and
NYSE: ALU) IPTV Micro-Architecture solution designed for underserved
smaller local and regional markets garnered a TelcoTV Vision Award in the “Most
Innovative Middleware” category at TelcoTV 2010, the largest video conference
and expo focused on the U.S. service provider market.
The TelcoTV Vision Awards recognize the most innovative and “visionary” new
products, services, and applications announced in the communications industry
in the past year. The finalists were determined by a distinguished panel
of industry executives and analysts.
Alcatel-Lucent’s Micro-Architecture is a turnkey, compact IPTV solution
powered by Microsoft® Mediaroom, that is designed to cost-effectively support
networks of between 1,000 and 100,000 set-top-boxes in a single rack. The
solution not only provides high-quality television programming, but also
enables new consumer media services through the blending and personalization of
web and broadcasting content. This full featured IPTV Solution is
designed to meet the cost requirements of regional communication service
providers (CSPs) who serve local and regional markets around the world.
“Aimed specifically at smaller local and regional network operators, our new
Micro-Architecture solution is a substantially modified version of an existing
solution that Alcatel-Lucent has previously deployed in more than 25 large
networks globally,” said Geeta Chaudhary, Vice President of Multimedia
Integration Services at Alcatel-Lucent. “We designed this optimized IPTV
offering so that it is pre-integrated and lab tested, minimizing the technical
and commercial risks associated with launching IPTV services. We estimate that
more than 11 million new IPTV subscribers will be served by regional
communication service providers in the coming three years and this compact
release is designed to help our customers better address this huge
opportunity.”
The IPTV Micro-Architecture supportsAlcatel-Lucent’s Multimedia
strategy, which is focused on providing an enriched multi-media experience
for end users, driving subscriber growth, customer retention and new
revenues.
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companies.
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