PARIS, May 6, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcatel-Lucent
(Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) has signed a five-year agreement
with KPN to provide its new Rapport™ communications software,
enabling the Dutch operator to simplify and consolidate a number of
voice services, such as VoLTE, onto one platform.
Rapport communications will play a key role in KPN's ability to
create and deliver new applications and services, to any device,
based on the software's built-in APIs.
Key Facts:
- KPN will use Alcatel-Lucent Rapport to provide its consumer and
business customers with voice and rich communication services,
regardless of device or whether they are in a fixed or mobile
environment.
- Rapport is based on a fully re-architected version of
Alcatel-Lucent's IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) software, the
foundation for the company's award-winning Voice over LTE (VoLTE)
technology. It includes APIs that allow new web communication
services to be added to the rich functionality of KPN's all-IP
network.
- Alcatel-Lucent supports more than 69 commercial customer IMS
deployments worldwide and is the communications core for next
generation IP networks, including LTE and VoLTE.
Quotes:
Andre Beijen, Manager Network
and Service Development of KPN, said: "This agreement is
a significant step for KPN to consolidate a number of its voice
services (e.g. VoIP rationalization) and introduce new voice
services (e.g. VoLTE) to our customers throughout the
Netherlands.
Willem Hendrickx, President of
Europe, Middle East & Africa, Alcatel-Lucent, said: "The
Alcatel-Lucent Rapport portfolio facilitates the convergence of
KPN's mobile and fixed networks, and allows it to add
communications functionality and services inside of apps and
websites and available from any device, anywhere, anytime. KPN
customers will also have greater communications choices – for
example how to answer a call, whether on a phone, a tablet
extension or right inside a business' website, as well as
seamlessly switching from voice to video to data at any
time."
About KPN
KPN is the leading telecommunications and ICT service provider
in the Netherlands, offering
wireline and wireless telephony, internet and TV to consumers and
end-to-end telecom and ICT services to business customers. In
Belgium, KPN is active in wireless
operations and holds a number three market position through Base
Company. KPN provides wholesale network services to third parties
and operates an efficient IP-based infrastructure with global scale
in international wholesale through iBasis.
About Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE:
ALU)
Alcatel-Lucent is the leading IP networking,
ultra-broadband access and cloud technology specialist. We are
dedicated to making global communications more innovative,
sustainable and accessible for people, businesses and governments
worldwide. Our mission is to invent and deliver trusted networks to
help our customers unleash their value. Every success has its
network.
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