PARIS, July 8, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcatel-Lucent
(Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that it has been
selected by Vodafone Group as a Supplier of Reference for LTE metro
cells with integrated Wi-Fi capability. The award is part of
Vodafone's investment program, Project Spring.
Small cells are a critical component in the rollout of LTE
ultra-broadband services, augmenting the existing network as well
as adding capacity in areas of high usage by offloading traffic
from the macro network to provide the best possible customer
experience.
Vodafone's award to Alcatel-Lucent signifies the operator's
commitment to developing multi-vendor heterogeneous networks
(Hetnets) in order to provide the best possible customer
experience. The use of small cells will enable Vodafone to bring
connections closer to the end user, ensuring an exceptional mobile
ultra-broadband experience including enriched multimedia services
wherever consumers are located.
Key Facts:
- Vodafone has named Alcatel-Lucent a Supplier of Reference for
small cell and Wi-Fi technology.
- The award adds Alcatel-Lucent as a supplier to Vodafone's
Project Spring organic investment program.
- As supplier of reference, Alcatel-Lucent can bid on business in
all Vodafone countries with its Metro Cell Outdoor small cell
products.
- This award consolidates the long term small cells partnership
between Vodafone and Alcatel-Lucent, initiated years ago through
the deployment of Alcatel-Lucent residential and enterprise small
cells in multiple properties for Vodafone, followed more recently
by Alcatel-Lucent´s latest generation of small cells trial in
the Netherlands.
- Alcatel-Lucent's market leading small cell portfolio has over
115 contracts in over 45 countries.
Quotes:
Luis Martinez Amago, President
of Alcatel-Lucent's EMEA region, said: "Vodafone Group is
taking a leadership role with the deployment of small cells
throughout their global properties and by serving as an industry
reference with the deployment of a multi-vendor heterogeneous
architecture. In being named a Supplier of Reference, Vodafone has
given Alcatel-Lucent a strong endorsement that our small cells will
help them to deliver high quality service to their customers. We
are grateful for the opportunity to help Vodafone deliver an
extraordinary and differentiated ultra-broadband experience for
their customers."
About Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE:
ALU)
We are at the forefront of
global communications, providing products and innovations in IP and
cloud networking, as well as ultra-broadband fixed and wireless
access to service providers and their customers, and to enterprises
and institutions throughout the world. Underpinning us in driving
the industrial transformation from voice telephony to high-speed
digital delivery of data, video and information is Bell Labs, an integral part of the Group and one
of the world's foremost technology research institutes, responsible
for countless breakthroughs that have shaped the networking and
communications industry. Our innovations have resulted in our Group
being recognized by Thomson Reuters as a Top 100 Global Innovator,
as well as being named by MIT Technology Review as amongst 2012's
Top 50 "World's Most Innovative Companies". We have also been
recognized for innovation in sustainability, being named Industry
Group Leader in the Technology Hardware & Equipment sector in
the 2013 Dow Jones Sustainability Indices review, for making global
communications more sustainable, affordable and accessible, all in
pursuit of the Group's mission to realize the potential of a
connected world.
With revenues of Euro 14.4
billion in 2013, Alcatel-Lucent is listed on the
Paris and New York stock exchanges (Euronext and NYSE:
ALU). The company is incorporated in France and headquartered in Paris.
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