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About Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent’s vision is to enrich people’s lives by transforming the way
the world communicates. Alcatel-Lucent provides solutions that enable
service providers, enterprises and governments worldwide, to deliver voice,
data and video communication services to end-users. As a leader in fixed,
mobile and converged broadband access, carrier and enterprise IP technologies,
applications, and services, Alcatel-Lucent offers the end-to-end solutions that
enable compelling communications services for people at home, at work and on
the move.
With more than 77,000 employees and operations in more than 130
countries, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with global reach. The company has
one of the largest research, technology and innovation organizations focused on
communications — Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs — and the most experienced global
services team in the industry. Alcatel-Lucent achieved revenues of Euro 15.2
billion in 2009, and is incorporated in France, with headquarters in Paris.
Organization
With a strong focus on complete solutions maximizing value for customers,
Alcatel-Lucent is organized around four business groups and three geographic
regions. The Application Software Group focuses on developing and maintaining
innovative software products for its global customer base. The Carrier Product
Group serves fixed, wireless and convergent service providers with end-to-end
communications solutions. The Enterprise Product Group focuses on meeting the
needs of business customers as well as the Industry & Public Sector. The
Services Group designs, deploys, manages and maintains networks worldwide. The
company's geographic regions are the Americas; Europe, Middle East, and Africa;
and Asia Pacific and China.
Innovation & Technology
Alcatel-Lucent is one of the largest innovation powerhouses in the
communications industry, representing an R&D investment of Euro 2.4
billion, and a portfolio of more than 27,500 active patents spanning
virtually every technology area. At the core of this innovation is
Alcatel-Lucent’s Bell Labs, an innovation engine with researchers and
scientists at the forefront of research into areas such as multimedia and
convergent services and applications, new service delivery architectures and
platforms, wireless and wireline, broadband access, packet and optical
networking and transport, network security, enterprise networking and
communication services and fundamental research in areas such as
nanotechnology, algorithmic, and computer sciences.
History
The formation of Alcatel-Lucent created the world’s first truly global
communications solutions provider, with the most complete end-to-end portfolio
of solutions and services in the industry.
Alcatel-Lucent combined two entities — Alcatel and Lucent Technologies —
which shared a common lineage dating back to 1986. That was the year Alcatel’s
parent company, CGE (la Compagnie Générale d’Electricité), acquired ITT’s
European telecom business. Nearly 60 years earlier, ITT had purchased most of
AT&T’s manufacturing operations outside the United States. Lucent
Technologies was spun off from AT&T.
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