Alcatel launches its first NGN Reality Centre in Asia Pacific, in Shanghai

August 25, 2004 - Alcatel announced the launch of its first Next Generation Network (NGN) Reality Centre in Asia Pacific located in the headquarters of Alcatel Shanghai Bell, Alcatel's flagship Chinese company, in Shanghai, China. The new Reality Centre will be operated and managed by Alcatel Shanghai Bell.

Established following the one in Antwerp, Belgium, the new Center provides an open service delivery environment for design and testing of NGN based user-centric broadband services to meet the ever-growing demand for such services in China and the rest of Asia Pacific region. Through partnership with key industry players such as IBM and HP, a variety of NGN-based services and applications like soft phone, multimedia video conferencing, IP Centrex, IP PBX and WLAN phone will be commercially ready in the Centre.