Alcatel-Lucent
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<th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Type</th>
<td>Public (Euronext: ALU, NYSE: ALU, TYO: 6687)</td>
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<th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Founded</th>
<td>2006 (1898 as Alcatel)</td>
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<th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Headquarters</th>
<td class="adr">Paris, France & Murray Hill, New Jersey,  </td>
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<th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Key people</th>
<td>Patricia Russo, CEO and Serge Tchuruk, chairman</td>
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<th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Industry</th>
<td>telecommunications</td>
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<th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Products</th>
<td>provides hardware, software and services to telecommunications service providers and enterprises</td>
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<th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Revenue</th>
<td>▲17.8 Billion EUR (2007) (combined from Alcatel and Lucent Technologies)[1]</td>
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<th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Employees</th>
<td>77,000 (2008)</td>
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<th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Website</th>
<td class="url">www.alcatel-lucent.com</td>
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Alcatel-Lucent is one of the world's biggest industry players in telecommunications that provides hardware, software, and services to service providers and enterprises all over the globe. The company is incorporated in France and has its headquarters at rue de la Boétie in Paris. The company does business in 132 countries, with almost equal sales distribution coming from both its European and North American regions, and an additional third of its channel located elsewhere in the world. Alcatel-Lucent was formed after Alcatel merged with Lucent Technologies on December 1, 2006.[2]
On March 10, 2008, Alcatel-Lucent announced they will acquire privately held consulting firm Reachview Technologies.
[edit] History
Alcatel has a long history beginning in 1898 with the founding of Compagnie Générale d'Electricité (CGE). The original home of the company was the Alsace region and it still maintains R&D operations in the Strasbourg area. The current name, "Alcatel", comes from the acquisition in 1968 of Société Alsacienne de Constructions Atomiques, de Télécommunications et d' Electronique
In 1991 CGE changed its name to Alcatel Alsthom, and in 1998 to Alcatel [1].
There were a number of mergers and acquisitions, as well as divestments since 1898. To understand the current company and its focus on telecommunications, the most important were the acquisition of the European telecommunications activities of ITT in 1986. The combined companies were called Alcatel Alsthom. Alcatel maintains significant R&D presence in France (Paris region, Brittany, South of France), Antwerp (Belgium), at the former ITT operations there (Bell Telephone), in Stuttgart (Germany), in Italy (Vimercate, Genoa, Rieti, Battipaglia), in India (Gurgaon, NOIDA and Chennai), since 2000 in Shanghai (China) and since 2005 in Saint-Petersburg (Russia).
Since 1990, various North American companies were acquired – Spatial Wireless, Rockwell Technologies, DSC Communications, Xylan, Packet Engines, Assured Access, Newbridge, iMagicTV, TiMetra, and eDial – giving Alcatel a strong U.S. and Canadian presence. Alcatel has its North American headquarters in Plano, Texas, and R&D operations in Ottawa, Mountain View, California, Petaluma, California, Saint John, New Brunswick, Calabasas, California, Murray, Utah ,and Raleigh, North Carolina.
Early in 2006, Alcatel setup a new joint ventrue with TCL of China forming a new mobile business, TCL and Alcatel Mobile Phones Limited (TAMP).
[edit] Thales deal
On April 6, 2006, Alcatel announced it will swap its shares of Alcatel Alenia Space and Telespazio for €673 million and a 12.1% stake of Thales Group (increasing its share to 21.6%).
[edit] Areas of business
Alcatel was mostly well known for its DSL multiplexers, used for high-speed Internet access over ADSL and VDSL, whereas Lucent was well-known for its Class 4 and 5 voice switches (Central Office) and its optical products. Alcatel had over 40% of the world DSLAM market in 2007, with more than 143 million lines shipped and has been evolving this from an ATM-backhauled device to an IP-backhauled device. It has a partnership with Microsoft as of 2004 to provide IPTV services via its TPSDA (Triple Play Services Delivery Architecture) over DSL and using its 7x50 VPLS/MPLS routers and switches to service providers such as AT&T in the United States. It is also a leading provider of optical transmission equipment, especially for submarine communications cable. Genesys, a U.S. subsidiary, is a leading provider of call centre software which operates both with Alcatel-Lucent equipment and 3rd-party equipment. The company is generally organized into carrier, enterprise and services business groups.
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