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Alcatel-Lucent today confirmed the ongoing evolution of its industry-leading Intelligent Services Access Manager (ISAM) portfolio of IP broadband access products, providing access to the most innovative offerings of voice, video and data services for tens of millions of end-users around the world already.

Since its launch four years ago, continuous innovations have turned the ISAM family into the ultimate reference platform that addresses increasing bandwidth and service delivery requirements, enabling multiple TV/video streams (including HDTV in conjunction with high-speed Internet access, VoIP and gaming applications) as well as IP-based multimedia services (IMS). More than 200 service providers worldwide have adopted the ISAM platform.

Over the years, the ISAM family – a major building block of Alcatel-Lucent’s Triple Play Service Delivery Architecture (TPSDA) – has continuously evolved to support a flexible mix of future-proof access technologies (xDSL, VDSL2, GPON, P2P Ethernet) and a variety of network topologies (central office as well as remote architectures).

The Alcatel-Lucent ISAM product family provides an unsurpassed IPTV experience, earning a five-star rating for video and QoS support (Current Analysis assessments of December 2007 and September 2008, respectively), as well as a cost-effective migration to packet-based voice, thereby offering support for any type of voice application – from Class 5 to full NGN architectures. The ISAM family is widely recognized for its ongoing innovations, the most recent being the groundbreaking Smart DSL technology, as well as its distributed DSLAM and virtual ONT concepts.

Having surpassed the 200th customer milestone, Alcatel-Lucent’s ISAM platform is deployed at many of the leading service providers (such as AT&T, Belgacom, Hanaro Telecom, Hong Kong Broadband Network Limited, KPN, NeufCegetel, NTELOS, Swisscom and Telstra), as well as a considerable number of utility companies (NRGi Fibernet, J?nk?ping Energi, Bristol Virginia Utilities) and municipalities and regions around the world (Arvidsjaur and Tidaholm in Sweden, Lincoln County in US and Asturias in Spain).

“As the next-generation fixed access market continues to evolve, two factors remain constant. The first is Alcatel-Lucent’s ongoing ability to establish new benchmarks for access technology performance; the second is the company’s corresponding ability to generate the ultimate validation for its access solutions, specifically, unmatched customer and market success,” said Erik M. Keith, Principal Analyst for Broadband Infrastructure at Current Analysis. “With this latest milestone achievement, Alcatel-Lucent has once again demonstrated its ability to defend its fixed access leadership, despite an acutely competitive market.”

“Since its launch four years ago, the ISAM family has been adopted by at least one customer per week, consolidating our undisputed number one position in IP broadband access,” said Luis Martinez Amago, President of Alcatel-Lucent’s fixed access activities.

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