Lucent Technologies' iMerge Enhanced Business Services Named 'Best of Show' At Internet Telephony Conference & Expo 2001

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Lucent Technologies' iMerge Enhanced Business Services Named 'Best of Show' At Internet Telephony Conference & Expo 2001

    MURRAY HILL, N.J., Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU)
announced today that its new iMerge(R) Enhanced Business Services was named as
one of the "Best of Show" winners at the Internet Telephony Conference and
Exposition 2001 held in San Diego Oct. 3-5, 2001.
    The iMerge Enhanced Business Services solution combines the iMerge Centrex
Feature Gateway (CFG) with new software features.  With this offering, service
providers can deliver new productivity-enhancing telephony features to their
business customers in a hosted or premises-based environment using any phone
system.
    The Best of Show awards were presented by the editors of Technology
Marketing Corporation's Internet Telephony, Communications Solutions, Customer
Inter@ction Solutions and Communications Outsourcing magazines to products
viewed as the most innovative in their class.  Judging was based on a
company's overall contributions to the Internet telephony industry, with an
emphasis on technological innovation and product feature sets.
    The iMerge Enhanced Business Services package includes call and presence
management (call logging, screening, redirecting); conference management
(notes, subconferencing, click-to-conference); unified messaging management
(e-mail, voice, fax, Short Message Service); contact management (click-to-
connect, multiple directories, phonebook sharing, synchronization); calendar
and meeting management.
    The iMerge CFG -- which works with any class 5 switch -- allows service
providers to use existing central office equipment to extend Centrex features
over packet networks, giving users a powerful VoIP service.  The gateway
combines the inherent reliability of the public switched telephone network
(PSTN) with the cost-saving advantages of a packet network.  iMerge CFG is a
central element of the Lucent 7R/E(TM) Packet Solutions portfolio of products
designed to bring packet capabilities to both traditional circuit and
converged circuit-packet networks.

    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,
+1-623-581-4198, mm41@lucent.com