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                                                                    EXHIBIT 99.1


Friday February 27, 5:22 pm Eastern Time

Company Press Release

SOURCE: Aspect Telecommunications

Lucent Technologies and Aspect Telecommunications Settle Patent Dispute

SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Lucent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: LU) 
and Aspect Telecommunications Corporation (Nasdaq: ASPT) today announced that 
they have agreed to dismiss their patent lawsuits against each other, released 
each other from claims of past infringement, and settled their patent disputes.
The lawsuits related to telecommunications products and call routing 
technology. As part of the settlement, the parties have entered into a 
cross-licensing agreement under which Aspect will pay Lucent a one-time fee and
future royalties.

Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., designs, builds and
delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems and
software, data networking systems, business telephone systems and
microelectronic components. Bell Labs is the research and development arm for
the company.

Aspect Telecommunications is a global provider of comprehensive business
solutions for mission-critical call centers. Aspect products include automatic
call distributors, computer-telephony integration solutions, interactive
response systems, call center management information and reporting tools, and
call center planning and forecasting packages. Aspect also provides services
vital to call center environments, including business applications consulting,
systems integration and training. Corporate headquarters are located in San
Jose, California.