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ALCATEL-LUCENT: Installing Network Overlay for Brasil Telecom Alcatel-Lucent said in a statement that it was awarded a contract from Brasil Telecom to deploy an Internet Protocol/Multi Protocol Label Switching network overlay to support fixed and mobile broadband services. Business News Americas relates that Brasil Telecom and Alcatel- Lucent think this will be "Brazil's first nationwide, converged network." Alcatel-Lucent posted on its Web site that Brasil Telecom expects the Internet Protocol/Multi Protocol Label Switching software to boost operational simplicity and flexibility. It will also bring down costs and increase revenues by allowing Brasil Telecom to offer value added services like business virtual private networks. It will be a foundation for triple play services. The platform will cover the main cities across 14 states in Brazil. BNamericas notes that the software includes: -- 7750 Service Router, -- 7450 Ethernet Service Switch, and -- 5620 Service Aware Manager. The software will help Brasil Telecom meet Service Level Agreements for business critical services, BNamericas states. About Brasil Telecom Headquartered in Brasilia, Brazil, Brasil Telecom Participacoes SA -- http://www.brasiltelecom.com.br -- is a holding company that conducts substantially all of its operations through its wholly owned subsidiary, Brasil Telecom SA. The fixed-line telecommunications services offered to the company's customers include local services, including all calls that originate and terminate within a single local area in the region, as well as installation, monthly subscription, measured services, public telephones and supplemental local services; intra-regional long- distance services, which include intrastate and interstate calls; interregional and international long-distance services; network services, including interconnection and leasing; data transmission services; wireless services, and other services. About Alcatel-Lucent Headquartered in Paris, France, Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) -- http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/ -- provides solutions that enable service providers, enterprises and governments worldwide to deliver voice, data and video communication services to end users. Alcatel-Lucent maintains operations in 130 countries, including, Austria, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Ireland, Canada, United States, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Peru, Venezuela, Indonesia, China, Australia, Brunei and Cambodia. On Nov. 30, 2006, Alcatel and Lucent Technologies Inc. completed their merger transaction, and began operations as a communication solutions provider under the name Alcatel-Lucent on Dec. 1, 2006. * * * As reported in the Troubled Company Reporter-Latin America on Nov. 9, 2007, Moody's Investors Service has downgraded to Ba3 from Ba2 the Corporate Family Rating of Alcatel-Lucent. The ratings for senior debt of the group were equally lowered to Ba3 from Ba2 and the trust preferred notes of Lucent Technologies Capital Trust I have been downgraded to B2 from B1. At the same time, Moody's affirmed its Not-Prime rating for short term debt of Alcatel-Lucent. Moody's outlook for the ratings is stable. |
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