Digital Communities Member

Industry Member Profile

Each day, regional, state, and local governments across all levels are faced with new communications technologies, new constituent services, and the continual need to manage costs. Alcatel-Lucent has the most comprehensive portfolio of market-driven solutions to help state, regional and local governments put communications technologies to work with new approaches that are:

Reliable - Delivering innovative, carrier-grade communications networks that address complex and critical government needs.

Secure - Offering extensive knowledge and expertise for protecting people, information, and assets within government infrastructures.

Flexible - Our Team works with government to develop cost-effective, customized solutions based on key criteria, such as population density, geography, service objectives, regulations, legal environments and business models.

Public Safety & Homeland Security
Alcatel-Lucent has extensive experience designing state-of-the-art regional public safety networks
throughout North America, offering:

• Intelligence, interoperability, protection of critical infrastructure, and network safety - all chief
concerns for public safety officials

• Mission critical networks and innovative collaboration solutions that help local police talk with medical
and fire personnel or other first-responders in an emergency with minimal delay.

Convergence and IP Transformation
We provide government agencies the power of our IP platforms and expertise in network design, delivering
flexible IP communication solutions that are manageable, secure, and cost effective. Converged networks
offer better public services, and are faster and less expensive for governments to operate.

Alcatel-Lucent has a broad range of IP Transformation services for government agencies, including
consulting, network transformation, integration, outsourcing, and managed and hosted services.

Broadband Communications
Local authorities realize that broadband access is an important driver for social and economic progress.
Extending broadband services throughout a community or region stimulates economic growth and social
development, bridging the digital divide.

Broadband has also proven to be valuable in areas such as public safety, distance learning, telemedicine,
and enabling services such as video-on-demand.

Alcatel-Lucent is the world's first truly global communications solutions provider, with the most complete
end-to-end portfolio of solutions and services in the industry. Alcatel-Lucent is one of the largest
innovation powerhouses in the communications industry, boasting 23,000 research and development experts
worldwide, investing over $4 billion in 2007 and holding a portfolio of over 25,000 active patents spanning
virtually every technology area. At the core of this innovation is Alcatel-Lucent's research, which
includes the world-renowned Bell Labs and Research & Innovation groups.

To learn more, visit us at http://www1.alcatel-lucent.com/us/slg/ or call 1-800-252-2835

 

Alcatel-Lucent Solutions

Ways to Win
Government IT faces new challenges with the rapidly expanding mobile work force.

Converging Communication
Alcatel-Lucent solutions revolutionize agency communication and collaboration.

First in the Nation
Pioneering 700 MHz broadband data network puts leading-edge tools in the hands of public safety personnel in the District of Columbia.

Now and in the Future
Tacoma, Wash., deploys an MPLS-based network to meet growing demands for capacity and new services.

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