Hanaro Telecom Selects Lucent Technologies VoIP Solution to Offer Advanced Services to Enterprises

Hanaro Telecom Selects Lucent Technologies VoIP Solution to Offer Advanced Services to Enterprises

Hanaro Telecom Will Be First Service Provider in Korea to Offer VoIP Services to Enterprises

SEOUL, South Korea, Sept. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Lucent Technologies (NYSE:LU) announced today that Hanaro Telecom, Korea's second largest wireline and broadband service provider, will deploy Lucent's Voice over the Internet Protocol (VoIP) solution to offer advanced services to enterprise customers. Hanaro Telecom will be the first Korean carrier to offer carrier-based VoIP Services to businesses.

The Lucent solution, part of Lucent Technologies Accelerate(TM) Next Generation Communications Solutions portfolio, can enable Hanaro to provide traditional business voice services, such as call forwarding and conference calling, as well as innovative IP-based features that can include interactive voice response, one-number calling and Web-based integrated business features that allow customers to manage their voice services via their computers.

The solution, which includes the Lucent Feature Server 3000, also can allow Hanaro's enterprise customers to consolidate their voice, data and Internet services onto one network that connects to the public network, simplifying the enterprise's network operations. Lucent Worldwide Services will provide professional services including engineering and installation for the deployment.

"In order to grow revenues, Hanaro is focusing on the enterprise market and expanding its services portfolio for business customers," said SeungSeog Lee, Senior Vice President of Network Technology Unit, Hanaro Telecom. "We believe that Lucent will help us successfully deploy VoIP services to enterprise customers."

"This is significant in that our customer will be the first carrier in Korea to launch VoIP business services, making Lucent the first vendor to have its VoIP solution deployed in this way," said John Yang, President and CEO of Lucent Technologies Korea. "We will continue to provide our full support to enable Hanaro to move toward a converged network build-out."

The contract with Hanaro strengthens Lucent's leading position in the VoIP market in Korea. In June, Lucent announced a contract with Dacom to build IP networks for the Military Mutual Aid Association, one of Dacom's enterprise customers.

Lucent's solution for Hanaro includes technology from Lucent partners BroadSoft(R) and Acme Packet(R). Lucent has provided Hanaro with broadband access, optical networking, switching since 1998 and now a VoIP solution for its network.

About Hanaro Telecom

Hanaro Telecom is one of largest broadband service providers and the second largest fixed-line carrier in South Korea. Established in 1997, Hanaro runs a nationwide communications network in South Korea for local, national, and international voice call and data services. For more information on Hanaro, visit its Web site at http://www.hanaro.com/ .

About Lucent Technologies

Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., USA, designs and delivers networks for the world's largest communications service providers. Backed by Bell Labs research and development, Lucent relies on its strengths in mobility, optical, data and voice networking technologies as well as software and services to develop next-generation networks. The company's systems, services and software are designed to help customers quickly deploy and better manage their networks and create new, revenue-generating services that help businesses and consumers. For more information on Lucent Technologies, visit its Web site at http://www.lucent.com/ .

Source: Lucent Technologies

CONTACT: Mike Alva of Lucent Technologies, +1-510-747-5148,
cell: +1-510-449-1902, malva@lucent.com, or Jay Keum of Lucent Technologies,
Korea, +82-2-767-4059, cell: +82-2-18-201-3333, jkeum@lucent.com

Web site: http://www.lucent.com/
http://www.hanaro.com/

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