Alcatel-Lucent partners 'unite to ignite' at Rendezvous 2008

Goa

May 29, 2008

Alcatel-Lucent recently held its annual enterprise partner meet in Goa-The
Alcatel-Lucent Partners Rendezvous 2008. The theme of this three-day workshop
was 'unite to ignite'-an attempt to motivate Alcatel-Lucent business
partners to work together to achieve the organization's goals of becoming
India's leading provider of network and communication solutions' in a
dynamic business environment.

Alcatel-Lucent has two distributors for the SME segment, over 30 resellers,
three system integration partners namely Orange, ABS India and HCL Ltd and
strategic alliances such as BT, P, IBM, Accenture, etc.

The rendezvous witnessed participation from over 35 business partners with
over 120 attendees and 30 Alcatel-Lucent worldwide and Indian management
executives including Vivek Mohan, CEO, Alcatel-Lucent, India. The training
sessions, included SME, LME and pre-sales training; aimed at providing partners
with thorough knowledge of the Alcatel-Lucent products and services so as to
keep them abreast of the latest technology and products being developed by
Alcatel Lucent for meeting the ever-changing consumer demands. One major point
of the meet was the keynote address from Mathew Oommen, President-Technology,
Reliance Infocomm.

“The aim of the event was to bring together all our business partners on a
common platform and thank them for their continuous efforts and support. It also
gave us an opportunity to share with all people associated, the company's
ideology and vision of being a committed, aggressive and innovative enterprise
and reinforcing ALE's aim to acquire a leadership position in the industry in
the near future,” remarked Shekhar Agrawal, VP-Enterprise, India and SAARC,
Alcatel Lucent.