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Lucent Technologies, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications equipment company headquartered in Murray Hill, New Jersey.It was established on September 30, 1996, through the divestiture of the former AT&T Technologies business unit of AT&T Corporation, which included Western Electric and Bell Labs.
In October 2011, Alcatel-Lucent sold its Genesys call-centre services business unit to Permira, a private equity group, for $1.5 billion—the same amount that Lucent had paid for the business in 2000. Alcatel-Lucent needed funding for the Franco-American business, which made annual losses from 2007 to 2011. [17]
Alcatel-Lucent v. Microsoft Corp., also known as Lucent Technologies Inc. v. Gateway Inc., was a long-running patent infringement case between Alcatel-Lucent and Microsoft litigated in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California and appealed multiple times to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Lucent subsequently spun off units of its own in an attempt to restructure its struggling operations. [8] Avaya Inc. was spun off from Lucent as its own company in 2000 (Lucent merged with Alcatel SA in 2006, becoming Alcatel-Lucent, which was purchased in turn by Nokia in 2016). Avaya Inc. were listed on the NYSE using the symbol AV from 2000 ...
Oryx/Pecos consists of a kernel (Oryx), and the associated processes running on top of it (Pecos). The system is named for Pecos Street, which bounds the Westminster, CO campus of then AT&T's Colorado Bell Labs location, while Oryx was the last word alphabetically before OS in the office dictionary and the Oryx was purportedly the origin of the unicorn myth.
In December 2023, Nokia announced that it had reached an agreement to carve out its device management unit (representing the former Motive, Inc. business) and its service management unit (acquired in 2015 from Mformation). The purchaser was Lumine Group, a Toronto-based holder of a portfolio of software businesses in communications and media.
In 2014, Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks acquired the Norwegian company Optoplan, a division of the French oil group CGG. [15] On 15 April 2015, Alcatel-Lucent announced its acquisition by Finnish telecoms giant Nokia. Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks would become part of Nokia's Submarine Network Solutions division in France, but was ...
1996 - AT&T underwent a court ordered trivestiture [7] by splitting into three independent companies: AT&T, NCR, Lucent. AT&T spun off Bell Labs and CETC into Lucent Technologies. [1] [8] 1998 - Lucent spun off CETC into the new company named Integra Technologies. [1] 2000 - Amkor Technology acquired Integra Technologies. [1] [9]