Lucent Technologies' iMerge Centrex Feature Gateway Named Best of Show at Communications Solutions Fall Expo 2000

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Lucent Technologies' iMerge Centrex Feature Gateway Named Best of Show at Communications Solutions Fall Expo 2000

       Editors From Internet Telephony, Customer Inter@ction Solutions
  And Communications Solutions Magazines Honor iMerge CFG for Its Leadership
                           Position in VoIP market

    MURRAY HILL, N.J., Jan. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU)
announced today that its iMerge(R) Centrex Feature Gateway (CFG) was named as
one of the Best of Show winners from more than 100 top communications
companies exhibiting at the Communications Solutions Fall Expo 2000 in Las
Vegas.
    The Best of Show awards were presented by the editors of three
industry-leading publications, Technology Marketing Corporation's (TMC)
Internet Telephony, Customer Inter@ction Solutions and Communications
Solutions, to products viewed as the most innovative in their class.  Judging
was based on a company's overall contributions to the datacom/telecom
convergence industry, with an emphasis on technological innovation and product
feature sets.
    "The Best of Show winners truly exemplify the best that our industry has
to offer," said Rich Tehrani, president of TMC and chairman of Communication
Solutions Fall Expo 2000.  "The iMerge CFG made an outstanding impression in
the exhibit hall, an impression that reflects Lucent's leadership position in
the telecommunications industry."
    "Attendees at the show saw iMerge in a multivendor environment with
hundreds of local calling features -- such as three-way calling, call transfer
and call forward -- that have never before been available in the VoIP
industry," said Ken Arndt, vice president of marketing at Lucent Technologies.
"The applications that iMerge enables -- including multilocation Centrex,
virtual offices for road warriors, seamless work environments for teleworkers
and virtual call centers -- are powerful new ways to communicate and represent
the kinds of revenue-generating functions that make employees more effective
and enterprises more competitive."
    The iMerge CFG -- available today and sold as part of Lucent Technologies'
7R/E(TM) Packet Solutions portfolio -- extends office Centrex features over
packet networks, giving users the ultimate voice-over-Internet-protocol (VoIP)
service.  iMerge CFG combines the inherent reliability of the public switched
telephone network with the cost-saving advantages of the packet network.
iMerge's development was accelerated by Bell Labs engineers and field
representatives, who worked directly with customers to create a
high-reliability VoIP solution that integrates with firewalls, routers,
network management systems and customer-premises equipment.

    Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., designs and
delivers the systems, software, silicon and services for next-generation
communications networks for service providers and enterprises.  Backed by the
research and development of Bell Labs, Lucent focuses on high-growth areas
such as broadband and mobile Internet infrastructure; communications software;
communications semiconductors and optoelectronics; web-based enterprise
solutions that link private and public networks; and professional network
design and consulting services.  For more information on Lucent Technologies,
visit its web site at http://www.lucent.com.

SOURCE Lucent Technologies

http://www.lucent.com
CONTACT:
Michael Mitchell of Lucent Technologies,
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