PARIS, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced a professional services suite called "Sustainable Power." This new global solution supports growing customer demand for eco-friendly, sustainable network energy solutions to help reduce their current energy consumption and costs. Alcatel-Lucent now can offer professional network services to help customers analyze their network's power consumption requirements, identify areas where improvements can be made to existing infrastructure as well as make recommendations on alternative energy solutions using wind, solar and fuel cells.

Alcatel-Lucent's Sustainable Power practices is a multi-vendor solution designed for mobile and wireline service providers, independent telecommunications providers, government agencies, corporations, municipalities and campuses. It ranges from detailed power and battery assessment, grounding survey, power design order, equipment engineering, material sourcing services, equipment installation and equipment and battery removal and disposition. The solution also supports planning and design services, which mitigate the risk of a network outage, and business contingency plans when implementing network power solutions.

With today's announcement, Alcatel-Lucent will now offer the following services:

• Energy assessment service to analyze existing network power infrastructure and upgrade current systems to meet new environmental requirements

• Expanded multi-vendor power product and services portfolio with alternative energy systems including wind, solar and fuel cell

• Expanded equipment removal service that includes recycling capabilities to dispose of assets in a eco-friendly way that complies with U.S. federal and local regulations

"Cavalier is committed to deploying eco-friendly, sustainable network energy solutions "“ like upgrading our backup power system "“ and to doing so in a way that keeps our existing network fully operational during the process," Jim Vermeulen, Vice President of Operations, Cavalier Telephone. "Working with a single vendor to reconfigure our plant cabling, perform battery load tests and recycle the old batteries saved us money and made the project easier to manage."

"Today, energy consumption is a global business challenge dramatically impacting the bottom-line of virtually every organization. We believe energy system assessments and improvements will be critical to maintaining a competitive advantage in an era where resources are increasingly expensive and constrained," stated Andy Williams, President of Alcatel-Lucent's Services business activities. "Alcatel-Lucent is ready with a wide array of services to help customers in many industries improve their current network power consumption and to find ways to use emerging alternative technologies to prepare for a future where traditional energy resources will be costly and less available. As we look ahead to 2009 and beyond, organizations that proactively evaluate and upgrade their power systems will have a significant strategic advantage over those who pursue a business-as-usual approach."

Alcatel-Lucent is a leading network integrator with experience in the transformation of more than 60 networks with more than 20,000 service professionals worldwide and one of the industry's most comprehensive portfolio of vendor-agnostic network energy solutions. Alcatel-Lucent works with customers to design and implement modernized, up-to-date and reliable power and communications networks, while helping to lower operational costs associated with procuring, deploying and maintaining power and battery gear. The company's three dedicated IP Transformation Centers are strategically located around the globe to help carriers and enterprise customers reduce their time to market and mitigate the risk of deploying new services.

About Alcatel-Lucent and Climate Change
As a good corporate citizen, Alcatel-Lucent is committed to eco-sustainability with a particular focus on climate change. The company leverages its research and innovation teams to develop groundbreaking, environmentally friendly and energy-efficient technologies and to reduce the environmental impact of its operations. As a leading global telecommunications player, Alcatel-Lucent engages actively with its key stakeholders including customers and suppliers to address eco-sustainability and climate change issues throughout the entire supply chain. Alcatel-Lucent has signed the UN Global Compact "Caring for Climate" initiative and has been awarded the 2008 SAM Silver Sustainability Recognition.

About Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) is the trusted partner of service providers, enterprises and governments worldwide, providing solutions that deliver voice, data and video communication services to end-users. A leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband networking, IP 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 17.8 billion in 2007 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

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Alcatel-Lucent is 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, enterprises and institutions throughout the world.

Underpinning Alcatel-Lucent 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 Alcatel-Lucent and one of the world's foremost technology research institutes, responsible for countless breakthroughs that have shaped the networking and communications industry. Alcatel-Lucent innovations have resulted in the company 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. Alcatel-Lucent has also been recognized for innovation in sustainability, being ranked Technology Supersector Leader by the Dow Jones Sustainability Index in 2012 for making global communications more sustainable, affordable and accessible, all in pursuit of the company's mission to realize the potential of a connected world.

With revenues of Euro 14.4 billion in 2012, Alcatel-Lucent is listed on the Paris and New York stock exchanges (Euronext and NYSE: ALU).

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