Lucent Technologies, a Fortune 40 company with an annual turnover of more than U.S. $38 billion, is the worldwide leader in the design, development and manufacture of leading-edge communication networking solutions.

Lucent delivers a wide range of communications networks - including Internet, e-business, wireless, data and voice from its broad product portfolio. Across the world, Lucent has offices and distributors in more than 90 countries and territories.

Bell Labs is the company's world-renowned research and development organization. Eleven Nobel laureates conducted their prize-winning work at Bell Labs, including three who won the 1998 award for physics. Lucent's Bell Labs has achieved more than 26,000 patents to date. For more information, please visit Lucent's web site at http://www.lucent.com. After all, the Internet itself depends on a host of Bell Labs innovations.