Alcatel-Lucent

21.5 million Euro project will further improve Tunnel safety and communications efficiency Paris - Eurotunnel (Euronext Paris: GET and London Stock Exchange: GETS) has selected Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU ) to modernize the communications infrastructure in the Channel Tunnel. The new system will raise the railway communications capacity in the Tunnel to the highest technological standard and will generate further improvements in the safety and reliability of the system. The new equipment will be operational in 2012 in time for the Olympic Games in London. The introduction of digital technology, together with the addition of the latest information system innovations will help ... Read Full Story

The smart metering managed service will enable German utilities to adhere to recent and forthcoming European Union’s rules and will be implemented for the first time by Stadtwerke Pasewalk, a municipal utility that operates in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Read Full Story

Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, Germany – Vodafone Germany and Alcatel-Lucent today announced they will work together to develop an extensive offer for the German market that makes smarter use of energy by enabling consumers to access real-time information about their energy usage and make more informed decisions about their energy consumption of electricity, gas and water. Both subsidiaries will be marketing the smart metering offer as a managed service through their respective sales organizations and will promote the benefits that this service can bring to the energy sector. The smart metering managed service will enable German utilities to adhere to recent and forthcoming European Union's rules ... Read Full Story

Recognizes industry's first 'green mobile base station end-to-end solution Paris - Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU ) today announced that it will receive France's Digital Green Growth Prize. The Prize, which is awarded for the first time, will be presented to the company today in a ceremony taking place in Paris. Alcatel-Lucent won the award in the category of 'Digital and eco-sustainable enterprise 'which aims at reducing the carbon footprint of products and services. Alcatel-Lucent is recognized for having developed the first end-to-end 'green' mobile base station solution powered with alternative energies(solar, wind, fuel cells, etc.). The telecommunications industry estimates that more than ... Read Full Story

04 December 2009 – Alcatel-Lucent has moved into the high-profile applications space in an effort to curry favour with operators worldwide examining this new business opportunity. The vendor - best known for its telecom infrastructure hardware - yesterday unveiled its Application Exposure Suite (AES) and Open API Service. Light Reading Europe notes that the AES aims to enable operators to better support software developers by providing a set of building blocks - APIs, customisation capabilities, provisioning and app monitoring capabilities - to the developers. Meanwhile, the Open API Service is a hosted cloud service which the vendor says “brings developers and service providers together ... Read Full Story