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Alcatel-Lucent to transform IT network of largest U.S. university system

2012-10-22 07:34:50

PARIS and LONG BEACH, Calif., Oct. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- California State University - CSU - the largest four year university system in the United States, is to transform its information infrastructure used by almost 430,000 students and 44,000 faculty and staff in 23 campuses by selecting Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) to provide the IT network. With campuses covering the length of California from San Diego in the south to Humboldt in the north, CSU is an...

Alcatel-Lucent unlocks the potential of 4G mobile networks to create compelling and innovative new communication applications

2012-10-11 07:36:20

PARIS, Oct. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) is making it much easier for application developers to unlock the innovation potential in 4G LTE mobile networks by introducing a suite of application programming interfaces (APIs) to accelerate the creation of compelling broadband services to meet consumer and enterprise ever-evolving demands. Nine 'New Conversation APIs' will give developers easy access to communication capabilities in service...

Applied Communication Sciences Receives Edison Award for Quantum Communications Patent

2012-10-02 02:36:00

PISCATAWAY, N.J., Oct. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Applied Communication Sciences today announced that it will receive an Edison Patent Award for its breakthrough research that makes quantum communications practical and scalable in fiber optic networks while reducing infrastructure costs. Sponsored by the Research & Development Council of New Jersey, the honor is the company's second Edison Award and will be presented November 8. As the former Telcordia Advanced Technology...

Bridging the digital divide in underserved markets

2012-09-25 02:26:45

LAS VEGAS, Sept. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CCA 2012 -- Urging U.S. telecommunications operators competing with the largest, national carriers to think like mobile broadband providers, Robert Vrij, President, Americas of Alcatel-Lucent, today will outline new service and revenue possibilities enabled by 4G/LTE technologies - and ways to efficiently invest in these technologies. In his keynote address at the 20th annual Competitive Carriers Convention in Las Vegas, Mr. Vrij will...

Alcatel-Lucent adopts an open source model for the exposure of data and functionality on cloud platforms, telecom networks and enterprises

2012-09-06 02:38:45

PARIS, Sept. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today introduced an open source software engine, called apiGrove, that will enable companies to more effectively manage the application programming interfaces (APIs) they use to expose the capabilities of their cloud platforms, telecommunications networks or enterprise infrastructure. APIs enable data to flow easily between applications and devices and provide access to the core network assets...

Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Labs hosts event to explore the impact of software on society and to honor the life of Dennis Ritchie - the co-inventor of UNIX®

2012-09-05 02:40:06

MURRAY HILL, N.J., Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Bell Labs, the research arm of Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU), is to celebrate the life and legacy of the late Dennis Ritchie - co-inventor of the UNIX operating system and father of the C programming language, with a special event on Friday, September 7, at its headquarters in Murray Hill, New Jersey. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120905/NY67505 ) Hosted by Jeong Kim, president of Bell Labs, the event...

Cable operators can quickly and cost-effectively expand video-on-demand catalogs with joint offering from Alcatel-Lucent and Concurrent

2012-09-04 02:27:25

AMSTERDAM, Sept. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) and Concurrent (NASDAQ: CCUR) are introducing a joint offering that enables cable TV companies to significantly expand the number and variety of on-demand videos they can offer, quickly and cost-effectively. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110317/CL67141LOGO) Cable operators can then deliver these expanded video offerings to whatever device their customer prefers -...

Alcatel-Lucent Gives First-response Emergency Personnel Mobile Access to Multiple Video Feeds Using Lightning-fast 4G LTE

2012-08-21 02:33:19

PARIS, Aug. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) is to provide first-response emergency teams the ability to view and rapidly share multiple video and data feeds simultaneously on mobile devices. For the first time, fire, ambulance and police teams will be able to share critical emergency situation information with operation controllers via video and data streams - thanks to Alcatel-Lucent's First Responder Video solution. Building on Bell Labs...

Alcatel-Lucent smooths the path for telecom operators to tap further into the digital economy with a repeatable innovation model

2012-08-16 02:27:56

PARIS, Aug. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) is today launching a new consulting and professional services practice that will enable communications service providers to create new revenue opportunities and deliver new services to market faster. The practice will support a proven lifecycle methodology for application programming interfaces (APIs), providing operators with expertise and technology to streamline the creation, deployment and...

NASA RBSP Probes To Study Space Weather Extremes

RBSP Space Weather Probes To Launch August 23 Carrying NJIT Instrument

2012-08-09 08:47:26

April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online After a 50-year quest to better understand space weather and Earth's Van Allen Radiation Belts, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) Distinguished Research Professor and former Bell Labs scientist Louis J. Lanzerotti will once again see his dream rocket into space on August 23, 2012. That is when NASA'S twin Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) begin their mission to study the extremes of space weather. One of the most respected...