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by the Alcatel-Lucent 5620 Service Aware Manager. These tools allow the service provider to isolate faults and provision services quickly, with an end-to-end perspective, rather than time-consuming connection- by-connection, element-by-element fault tracing and provisioning, which are prone to error.

Ethernet also has the potential to provide huge savings in OPEX, compared to legacy services. Ethernet services can be upgraded remotely from the network operations center, without a truck roll. Services from 1 Mb/s to 100 Mb/s or from 100 Mb/s to 1 Gb/s can be offered in fine increments without changing the physical interface. This flexibility enables service providers to tailor their offering to their customer’s exact requirements. For more information on Alcatel-Lucent’s analysis of the business case for VPLS, see the publication Delivering Profitable Virtual Private LAN Services, available at www.alcatel.com/vpls.

Ethernet OPEX savings related to bandwidth upgrades were 69% to 83% for E-LAN services, such as VPLS, and 66% to 82% for E-line services, such as VLL, compared to legacy services.

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Alcatel-Lucent Solution

Alcatel-Lucent offers a comprehensive portfolio of carrier-class products that enable any service over any access with any backbone infrastructure. The Alcatel- Lucent 7450 ESS is a key product in this portfolio, enabling the delivery of highly profitable, scalable and reliable Ethernet business and consumer triple play services.

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“We selected Alcatel because it has the expertise and broad portfolio necessary to evolve our services as the market changes, and to help streamline our business to stay price competitive.”

MATS SANDVIK, CEO, VENTELO SWEDEN* This customer reference was provided to Alcatel prior to the merger.

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