Lucent to Resell Cisco Products to Mobile Service Providers

Lucent Technologies will integrate and resell selected data networking products from Cisco Systems to its mobile service provider customers. The multi-year, non-exclusive agreement covers the following Cisco packet data and media gateway products:

Cisco Packet Data Serving Node (PDSN), which enables CDMA2000 operators to provide mobile data access to the Internet, as well as corporate intranets and extranets.

Cisco Gateway GPRS Support Node (GGSN), which enables GSM and UMTS operators to optimize their networks to deploy high-quality mobile data services.

Cisco MGX 8000 Media Gateway and ATM multiservice portfolio, which enables efficient aggregation of radio access networks and transports voice-over-IP (VoIP) and voice-over-ATM (VoATM) in 2G, 2.5G and future 3G networks.

Lucent Worldwide Services, in cooperation with Cisco, will provide a full suite of services including deployment (installation), engineering, support and maintenance for the packet data and media gateway products covered under the agreement. Both Cisco and Lucent will be providing customer support. To date, Lucent has deployed more than 70,000 CDMA base stations in commercial networks around the globe, more than 35,000 of which support 3G CDMA2000 1X service. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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