Sprint Canada Selects Lucent Technologies

Sprint Canada Inc. (www.sprint.ca) has deployed Lucent Technologies (www.lucent.com) and Alpha Telecom, using their joint voice over broadband solution to provide next-generation Internet voice services to residential and small/home business customers on the carrier's local service network throughout Canada.

"Lucent and Alpha Telecom provided a reliable, carrier-grade next-generation solution that enabled us to quickly and smoothly roll out our new Voice over IP services to our customers," said Serge Babin, senior vice president and chief technology officer, Sprint Canada.

The joint solution helps enable Sprint Canada's recently launched Internet Phone Service™, which offers advanced IP services - operator services, 911, 411, and 711, as well as call waiting, call display and voice mail - using a regular telephone handset.

"Partnering with experienced equipment providers, like Lucent and Alpha Telecom, means we have the right planning, integration and maintenance support that enables us to focus on the advanced services our customers demand."

"Lucent knows that the network evolution will depend on the ability to enable profitable services for customer's like Sprint Canada who are leading the move to next generation services," said Alex Giosa, president and CEO, Lucent Technologies Canada.

"The Lucent vision and the resources, including partners like Alpha Telecom, allows us to expand Lucent's Accelerate™ footprint over Canada and deliver the Value over IP™ that produces next-generation networking solutions."

Alpha Telecom's Arion family of VoIP Gateways provides total next generation network CPE solutions to both enterprise and consumer markets. The Arion 3001-4 router is a high-quality standards-compliant router with one port for the VoIP gateway and 4 ports for Local Area Network switching.