LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES

Elstrom and Rheinhardt address this question in their lengthy Business Week analysis (1999). Describing the Internet, they state AIts explosive traffic, combined with the oodles of data that corporations are zapping between offices, demands speedy networks that can chop up information into bitesize digital pieces that wing their way fast. What's more, this new equipment is so efficient that it may eventually carry both data and voice traffic@ (Elstrom & Rheinhardt 1999 111).

That, in a nutshell, is the primary reason for Lucent Technologies existence and its success.

Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, New Jersey, designs, builds and delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems and software, data networking systems, business telephone systems and microelectronics components.

One particularly lucrative product segment is its WaveStar(TM)OLS 80G, a Ahighcapacity dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) system that combines up to 16 wavelengths, or channels, on one fibre pair  each with 2.5 gigabitpersecond (Gb/s) capacity. DWDM enables carriers to increase the capacity of fibreoptic networks by transmitting information as different

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erce market for communications gear. They've succeeded in making an organization that does both basic research and development that's of use to the company@ (AResearch 1999 167). Carey also points out that the company pegs 11 percent of revenues each year to fund the research at Bell Labs. AIts researchers are probing the neural pathways of the slug in order to understand how biological lessons could lead to selfhealing networks. They are exploring computers that harness the arcane power of quantum mechanics and the information storage capacity of DNA. Our role is absolutely clear: We are the innovation engine for Lucent@ (Carey 1999 167). Competitors 3Com National Semiconductor; ADC Telecommunications NEC; AMD Newbridge Networks; Alcatel Nokia; Ascom Holding; Nortel Networks ; BT; Oki Electric; Cisco Systems QUALCOMM; Corning Racal Electronics; Ericsson Raychem; Fujitsu ScientificAtlanta; General Instrument Siemens; GTE Tellabs; Harris Corporation; Texas Instruments; Hitachi; Toshiba; LSI Logic (Hoovers 1999). History/Future At the beginning of this analysis, it was suggested that Lucent was either three years old or 125 years old. That paradox will now become clear. The company that is now Lucent has
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