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Lucent Technologies today announced that it has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract with KPN Mobile The Netherlands ("KPN Mobile") to supply asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) infrastructure and software to support the operator's 3G UMTS network. Lucent will deliver equipment and services for a core ATM backbone network that will enable KPN Mobile to efficiently manage large increases in network traffic as customers subscribe to new 3G UMTS services.

"Lucent is the ideal partner to support us in this project as we evolve our network infrastructure to support new voice and data services," said Eric Kuisch, programme director UMTS for KPN Mobile The Netherlands. "We are working with Lucent to achieve a quick, flawless delivery of this project, and we are confident of the quality both of the technology Lucent is providing as well as the support, technological expertise and experience of the Lucent team."

Lucent will be providing equipment to build KPN Mobile's Universal Mobile Transport Network (UMTN), its core ATM aggregation network for 3G UMTS. Lucent will deploy its GX 550 Multiservice WAN Switch at six locations across the Netherlands to develop a high-speed backbone network that is able to support ATM, Frame Relay and Internet Protocol (IP), and will provide a reliable network infrastructure that is easily scalable to adapt to future growth in network traffic.

"We are delighted to be working with KPN Mobile on this project. As KPN Mobile executes its plans for UMTS development, Lucent will design and build a secure ATM core network for the real time execution and management of bandwidth to support traffic from new voice and data services," said David Poticny, president of Lucent Technologies Europe. "Lucent will work with KPN Mobile to quickly and efficiently deliver these new capabilities, leveraging our extensive experience and state of the art solutions."