Lucent Technologies licenses Blue Marble SDKs!

GARDINER, ME- Blue Marble Geographics (www.bluemarblegeo.com) have recently licensed their GeoCalc and GeoView software development kits to Lucent Technologies based out of Murray Hill, New Jersey.

Lucent chose Blue Marble software components to implement in an internal RF Planning Tool, allowing Lucent to optimize the geographical location of its wireless communication network antennae placement. This optimization gives Lucent the ability to maximize the overall performance of the Lucent cellular communication network.

GeoCalc is the GIS industry standard and contains well over 130 pre-defined ellipsoids, 630 datum transformations and over 30 projections. Using GeoCalc in development will result in direct cost savings for your company. The hours needed to try and invent, test, and maintain your own coordinate conversion engine are astronomical, but compromising your project with a lesser tool can be just as expensive.

GeoView is an intelligent mapping component for Windows developers who need to quickly embed sophisticated map viewing with spatial overlays in their applications. GeoView allows for a direct display and translation of map layers, without data conversion, as well as providing a layer import interface and a dynamic overlay layer. Most standard vector and image layer formats are supported!

Deployment of Blue Marble development software is not restricted with a software license control; you can embed these tools into your application for "on-the-fly" processing, transparent to the user.

About Blue Marble Geographics

Blue Marble Geographics of Gardiner, Maine - "The Geographic Software Tool Company" - is a leading developer and provider of smart, simple to use geographic software products that provide sensible solutions for users and developers of geographic data. Blue Marble currently serves over 120,000 customers in over 100 countries. Blue Marble can be found on the World Wide Web at www.bluemarblegeo.com and www.beyondgeo.com

For more information contact the Blue Marble sales group at (800) 616-2725 or Email: info@bluemarblegeo.com

About Lucent Technologies

Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) (www.lucent.com) designs and delivers networks for the world's largest communications service providers. Backed by Bell Labs research and development, Lucent relies on strengths in mobility, optical, data and voice networking technologies as well as software and services to develop next-generation networks. The company's systems, software and services are designed to quickly deploy and better manage networks and create new revenue-generating services for businesses and consumers.