Alcatel-Lucent Forum, Paris, February 20, 2008

HP and Alcatel-Lucent today announced the successful migration to a new state-of-the-art, Tier Four data center.(1) Located just outside of Paris in Marcoussis, it is the most robust, secure and fault tolerant type of data center available to date.

•  Alcatel-Lucent consolidating 25 data centers worldwide into 6 locations by end of 2009
•  Marcoussis demonstrates how operations are being transformed into revenue-generating assets
•  Infrastructure built on award-winning OmniSwitch networking products and HP's industry-standard servers
•  Surplus capacity to be leased through Data IV (joint venture with Colony Capital)
•  HP Services designed and implemented redundant architecture, provided thermal assessment to optimize power usage, and assisted with relocation of 850 servers from legacy data centers.
•  Facility designed for extremely high availability – houses Alcatel-Lucent's own mission-critical applications
•  Facility will serve as primary NOC supporting Alcatel-Lucent application businesses and Services Business Group

February 20-21, 2008, Palais des Congrès Porte Maillot, Paris – France
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Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) provides solutions that enable service providers, enterprise and governments worldwide, to deliver voice, data and video communication services to end-users. As a leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband networking, IP technologies, applications and services, Alcatel-Lucent offers the end-to-end solutions that enable compelling communications services for people at home, at work and on the move. With operations in more than 130 countries, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with global reach. The company has the most experienced global services team in the industry, and one of the largest research, technology and innovation organizations in the telecommunications industry. Alcatel-Lucent achieved revenues of Euro 17.8 billion in 2007 and is incorporated in France, with executive offices located in Paris. For more information, visit Alcatel-Lucent on the Internet: http://www.alcatel-lucent.com

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