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PARIS, Jan. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced the trial of IMS-based voice calling and high definition video streaming over a wireless network using fourth generation (4G) Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology. The trial used Cox's AWS and 700 MHz spectrum acquired at Federal Communications auctions in 2006 and 2009 to support its wireless plans, which include wireless broadband. "Our selection of Alcatel-Lucent was based on its...
LONDON, Jan. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Frost & Sullivan has named Alcatel-Lucent its EMEA Inbound Contact Routing Systems Market Penetration Leader for 2009. The Frost & Sullivan Award for Market Leadership Penetration is presented each year to the company whose product innovation, marketing and sales strategies have enabled it to gain the most market share in the past two to three years. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081117/FSLOGO) "Alcatel-Lucent is recognised for its...
PARIS, January 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext and NYSE: ALU) will hold a live web press conference on Thursday January 21, 2010 to announce groundbreaking technology in the next-generation intelligent optical core which will significantly cut the cost of transporting dramatically increasing volumes of traffic with exceptional reliability. The web conference will take place January 21, 2010 at 7AM PST/ 10AM EST / 4PM CET and will be hosted by Alberto...
LONDON, January 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The world took a big step closer today to a green and more sustainable communications future with the launch of Green Touch(TM), a global consortium organized by Bell Labs whose goal is to create the technologies needed to make communications networks 1000 times more energy efficient than they are today. A thousand-fold reduction is roughly equivalent to being able to power the world's communications networks, including the Internet, for...
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Consumer Electronics Show -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) and LG Electronics (LGE) today announced that the two companies have completed a successful handoff of an end-to-end data call between Long Term Evolution (LTE) and CDMA mobile networks, compliant with the standards established by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), which defines requirements for mobile broadband networks. The live, over-the-air handover involved an...
PARIS, January 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Bell Labs, the research arm of Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext and NYSE: ALU), will hold a press conference in London on January 11, 2010 at 2:30 p.m. GMT (3:30 p.m. CET/9:30 a.m. ET) to announce the launch of an initiative that could fundamentally transform communications and data networks, including the Internet, and significantly reduce the carbon footprint of the information and communications technology industry (ICT). The press conference,...
NEW YORK, Dec. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- TechWeb's Light Reading (www.lightreading.com), the leading media company serving the worldwide communications industry, and Heavy Reading (www.heavyreading.com), its prestigious market research division, ran their first interactive video broadcast combined with a live twitter feed on Thursday, Dec. 10. The video broadcast, IP Goes Mobile: Redefining LTE Wireless Broadband, was sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent. The broadcast included Heavy Reading Senior...
PARIS, Nov. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that, according to Q3 2009 data from Dell'Oro, it gained market share in the Service Provider Router segment for the fifth consecutive quarter. According to Dell'Oro, Alcatel-Lucent increased its worldwide market share by four percentage points year-over-year (3Q09 vs 3Q08). In addition, it gained 4.8 percentage points year-over-year (Y/Y) in the fastest growing sub-segment - Edge Routers...
AKRON, Ohio and MURRAY HILL, N.J., Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext and NYSE: ALU) and First Communications today announced the successful deployment of Alcatel-Lucent's advanced multi-reach dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) platform for First Communications' new high-capacity, low latency network between Chicago and Newark/New York City. Upgradeable to 40Gbit/s, the new network is running 1G to 10G services today expanding First Communications' reach to...
PARIS, Sept. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Alcatel-Lucent today introduced an innovative converged IP/Optical backbone network solution designed to relieve the strain on service providers' core networks caused by the explosive growth of video and other bandwidth-intensive applications. The Converged Backbone Transformation solution is a key component of Alcatel-Lucent's High Leverage Network(TM) strategy, key elements of which have already been selected by leading service providers....
