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Lucent Technologies Names New Member

Lucent Technologies announced that Frank Farese, 46, will join the company as head of its Global Business Partners Group.

Lucent's Global Business Partners Group works with resellers, distributors and systems integrators to sell Lucent's products and services to enterprises, small service providers and government entities.

Farese most recently served as chairman and CEO of Sandial Systems, which sells storage area backbone switches to enterprise data centers and service providers. Before joining Sandial, Farese worked at EMC Corporation for five years as vice president of its Global Alliances program and managed the relationships with major resellers, software and application developers and original equipment manufacturers. Farese initiated the ECO Structure Alliance between EMC and other companies to jointly develop integrated e-business infrastructure solutions for Fortune 500 companies. Prior to that he worked at AT&T in a variety of positions, including wireless, data networking and the Computer Systems business.

"In the year since Lucent established its Business Partners group, we have seen it grow and prosper in a very difficult market, and Lucent intends to build on that momentum to significantly expand its strategic alliance and channel presence worldwide," said Bob Holder, chief operating officer for Lucent. "Frank's recognized expertise in building successful strategic alliances and channel programs worldwide, combined with his telecom, networking and storage technologies experience make him uniquely qualified for this position."

Farese holds a law degree from Seton Hall Law School and received his bachelor's degree in political science from Rutgers University. He also completed the Duke University School of Business Executive Management program. He is a Fellow of the Brookings Institution and served a year on the staff of the U.S. Senate and has been a member of the New Jersey State Bar.

Lucent's Global Business Partners Group comprises two organizations. Lucent's Advantage BusinessPartner team works with the resellers, distributors and systems integrators to sell Lucent products, solutions and services to enterprises, Internet service provider and other small service providers around the world. The Strategic Alliance Partner team works with major companies in the computing, consulting, storage networking and other industries to jointly deliver communications solutions to enterprises. For more information on the Advantage BusinessPartner program or to locate a BusinessPartner, visit the Web site at www.lucent.com/partner.

About Lucent Technologies

Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, NJ, USA, designs and delivers networks for the world's largest communications service providers. Backed by Bell Labs research and development, Lucent relies on its strengths in mobility, optical, data and voice networking technologies as well as software and services to develop next-generation networks. The company's systems, services and software are designed to help customers quickly deploy and better manage their networks and create new, revenue-generating services that help businesses and consumers. For more information on Lucent Technologies, visit its Web site at www.lucent.com.