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News Newbridge has lost out in this market to Lucent in recent months. Struggling networking vendor, Newbridge, is pinning its hopes on a new ATM switch. According to US wires, the company's latest ATM switch is being tested by US telco SBC... [10 Dec 1999]
Motorola announces world's smallest chip technology
News Two weeks ago Lucent's Bell Labs operation made similar promises.see '"World's smallest transistor" solves e-conundrum' http://www.silicon.com/a34084 ). Motorola Labs has announced an advance in transistor technology that it claims will mean... [03 Dec 1999]
Lucent debuts intelligent service management
News Lucent Technologies is aiming to provide IT managers with the ability to manage multiple services from a single location. The Intelligent Service Manager (ISM) is a software platform supporting Web-based provisioning which will allow customers, via... [02 Dec 1999]
Kenan and Whisper to create customer billing network
News Kenan Systems, a subsidary of Lucent Technologies, has formed an alliance with Whisper Communications to build a billing and customer care network. Whisper will provide its wireless e-Telemetry technology for connecting disparate systems via... [18 Nov 1999]
"World's smallest transistor" solves e-conundrum
News Scientists at Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs have announced the "world's smallest transistor", and in the process possibly solved an age-old electronics conundrum. Lucent said it has produced a 50-nanometer vertical transistor, so-called because... [16 Nov 1999]
Lucent launches unified messaging system for service providers
News Lucent Technologies is to offer telecoms service providers a unified messaging system. The Unified Messenger for Service Providers will incorporate Lucent's voice and fax messaging technology, with Microsoft Exchange used as the email component. [15 Oct 1999]
Telecom 99: HP and Agilent partner to develop mobile e-services
News Fiorina, who in the past has worked for telecoms equipment giant Lucent Technologies, said: "These two separate worlds - telecoms and IT - are merging into one universe now. Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Agilent - the former HP measurement and... [11 Oct 1999]
Lucent rolls-out server interface technology
News Lucent Technologies is set to launch an interface technology which it claims pushes packet data over optical networks even closer to the server. According to a report on Techweb, Lucent will make the PCI server cards available commercially in early... [08 Oct 1999]
MiTech develops call centre for farmers
News MiTech has integrated Lucent INDeX telephony with ACD (automatic call distributing) capability and CTI (computer telephony integration) software. The National Farmers Union has awarded a £385,000 contract to MiTech to develop a call centre... [15 Sep 1999]
Consultant impartiality: are some vendors more equal than others?
Comment Nortel, one of Cisco's major rivals (the other is Lucent), remains surprisingly phlegmatic. As if to illustrate the point, within hours of news of the KPMG/Cisco venture, Lucent announced that it was to spend an equally staggering $3.7bn to bring... [20 Aug 1999]
Lucent invests $1.7bn in Excel
News Lucent Technologies is buying telecoms switch-maker, Excel Switching Corporation, for $1.7bn (£1bn). In the wake of the news, Lucent's share price dropped in a falling market. Excel shareholders will receive 0.558 of a Lucent share for every Excel... [19 Aug 1999]
MCI-Worldcom moves to pacify customers
News Bill Price, spokesman for Lucent said that although its software was at fault, the company is still trying to determine what aspect is to blame. He also suggested Lucent should offer compensation too. [18 Aug 1999]
Lucent announces Xedia stock deal
News Lucent Technologies has announced a plan to acquire networking company, Xedia Corporation, in an exchange deal of Lucent stock worth $254m (£158m). Lucent said that the acquisition will give it an advantage in the campus network market, with... [16 Aug 1999]
State of Independence? The myth of consultant impartiality
Comment However, these consultants are never going to know Nortel or Lucent like they know Cisco. The US Government has said it will look into Cisco's proposed $1bn stake in services and consultancy company KPMG (http://www.silicon.com/a32003 ). [12 Aug 1999]
Lucent buys INS in bid for next-generation networks
News Lucent Technologies is set to buy International Network Services (INS) for $3.7bn (£2.3m), according to reports in US wires. The purchase of INS, which designs and implements corporate networks, is expected to strengthen Lucent's data networking... [10 Aug 1999]
