Hanoi, September 8, 2010 – Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced it has signed a landmark contract with Vietnam Posts & Telecommunications Corporation Group (VNPT) and its wholly-owned subsidiary Vietnam Telecom National (VTN), to deliver its end-to-end IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) solution. This is the first IMS project to be deployed in Vietnam and will support VNPT’s ambition to become a leading Next Generation Networks (NGN) service provider in Vietnam and provide enhanced communication experiences to its customers.
“VNPT/VTN is entering a major network transformation era. We are investing in our infrastructure – focusing especially on broadband, value-added-services in NGN and IP technology – so that we can provide the advanced services our customers demand. In this strategy, IMS is key and we believe in Alcatel-Lucent’s solution as much as we appreciate our long-term partnership with them for the last 20 years,” said Mr. Luong Manh Hoang, director of VTN.
Alain Biston, Head of Alcatel-Lucent’s activities in North and South East Asia said: “VNPT/VTN’s deployment of IMS ensures its voice and multimedia services evolution by providing a scalable and flexible IP-based platform for multi-screen delivery capability across device types and fixed and mobile access. By optimizing services delivery and providing anywhere, anytime interconnectivity, IMS will extend the reach, personalization and profitability of VNPT/VTN’s services.”
The IMS solution facilitates the migration of the existing PSTN services in VNPT/VTN to provide improved network performance, security and workforce productivity, as well as new revenue streams and future advanced mobile services. This ensures that VNPT/VTN can cost-effectively grow fixed-line voice services and confidently introduce more advanced IP-based user services over time, such as blended IPTV and communications, fully across the broadband fixed and mobile networks.
Alcatel-Lucent is the industry’s IMS leader, with more than 60 IMS core customer deployments worldwide and supplying IMS applications to more than 60 additional clients. It also owns a leadership position in IMS VoIP subscriber market share. For more information on the Alcatel-Lucent IMS Solution, please click here:
About VNPT/VTN
Founded on March 31, 1990, Vietnam Telecoms National (VTN) is an exclusive state-owned subsidiary of Vietnam Post and Telecommunication Group (VNPT). For more than a decade, VTN is one of the leading telecommunication operators in Vietnam, with modern transmission networks, SDH/DWDM with backbone system capacity up to 140Gb/s and a Next Generation Network (NGN).
About Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) is the trusted transformation partner of service providers, enterprises, strategic industries such as defense, energy, healthcare, transportation, and governments worldwide, providing solutions to deliver voice, data and video communication services to end-users. A leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband networking, IP and optics technologies, applications and services, Alcatel-Lucent leverages the unrivalled technical and scientific expertise of Bell Labs, one of the largest innovation powerhouses in the communications industry. With operations in more than 130 countries and the most experienced global services organization in the industry, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with a global reach. Alcatel-Lucent achieved revenues of Euro 15.2 billion in 2009 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, read the latest posts on the Alcatel-Lucent blog http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/blog and follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/Alcatel_Lucent.
