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Analyst foresees 6% top line growth for Alcatel-Lucent | NetworkWorld.com Community
Sep. 03, 2008
RBC Capital Markets Managing Director Mark Sue foresees 6% top line growth for Alcatel-Lucent in calendar year 2009.
According to Sue: "For CY09, we are assuming just 6% top line growth to our estimate of EUR18.2B. ...
Switches for SMBs
Aug. 28, 2008
Adtran and Alcatel-Lucent this week separately rolled out switches aimed at small and midsize businesses.
Alcatel-Lucent intros Gigabit Ethernet switches
Aug. 26, 2008
Alcatel-Lucent is delivering a new family of Gigabit Ethernet switches that fit into its architecture for blending data, voice and wireless connectivity and are designed for small and medium businesses.
Alcatel-Lucent revs up edge routers
Mar. 27, 2008
Alcatel-Lucent this week unveiled significant upgrades to its edge lineup, highlighted by a new chip.
Alcatel-Lucent CEO and Chairman resign
Jul. 29, 2008
Alcatel-Lucent's CEO Patricia Russo plans to step down before the end of the year, and Chairman Serge Tchuruk will quit on Oct. 1. Russo will stay on until the board finds a replacement, the company said Tuesday.
Alcatel-Lucent adds laptop disk-encryption support
Jul. 10, 2008
Alcatel-Lucent has released an updated version of its OmniAccess 3500 wireless-security appliance for laptop PCs.
Oracle, Alcatel-Lucent in patent-infringement fray
Jul. 03, 2008
Oracle is suing Alcatel-Lucent, claiming the massive telecommunications company is in violation of a number of Oracle's patents, according to documents filed with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of ...
Alcatel-Lucent buys service mgmt. partner for $68 million
Jun. 18, 2008
Alcatel-Lucent (see how green the company's switches are) this week said it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Motive, a provider of service management software for broadband and mobile data services, ...
Carrier Ethernet strikes a chord
Jun. 17, 2008
Carrier Ethernet is a hot topic at this week's NXTcomm conference in Las Vegas, with three major vendors offering enhancements to their product families.
XO to demo 100 Gigabit Ethernet service
Jun. 12, 2008
XO Communications will team up with optical vendor Infinera next week to demonstrate how 100 Gigabit Ethernet traffic can be sent over 10 10Gbps wavelengths.
Cisco, Intel to lead WiMAX patent alliance
Jun. 09, 2008
Cisco, Intel and four other major tech companies have banded together to form a WiMAX patent pool to give companies access to WiMAX patents at predictable costs.
Redback debuts Ethernet carrier switch
Jun. 09, 2008
Ericsson subsidiary Redback Networks this week introduced a line of Carrier Ethernet switches intended to converge fixed and mobile networks.
Alcatel-Lucent upgrades its core SMB portfolio
May. 28, 2008
Alcatel-Lucent announced upgrades to its core SMB portfolio with the release of Office Communications Solutions 2008. With an emphasis on open source support, the release has been "designed from the ground-up for the ...
Ruggedized OmniSwitch introduced
May. 22, 2008
It's been a long time since I've checked in on the OmniSwitch line of Ethernet switches, and it turns out Alcatel-Lucent recently added a twist to the lineup.
Microsoft loses Alcatel-Lucent unified comms patent lawsuit
May. 21, 2008
Microsoft has been dealt a blow by the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), which says Alcatel-Lucent has not violated patents related to unified communications.
It's not your father's wireless anymore
May. 08, 2008
Back in the day, wireless data was a neatly self-contained niche technology used by folks such as field force workers and logistics companies, but virtually ignored by everyone else.
Mobile Next Generation Network solutions
Apr. 14, 2008
Continuing our highlights from CTIA (held earlier this month), today we'll review convergence-related announcements from Alcatel-Lucent on an extended relationship with Genband for mobile Next Generation Network (NGN) ...
Jury: Microsoft must pay Alcatel-Lucent $367 million
Apr. 05, 2008
A jury in San Diego ordered Microsoft to pay Alcatel-Lucent $367.4 million for infringing on two patents, adding a new chapter to a long-running dispute between the companies.
Picocell technology could help make fixed-mobile convergence a reality
Mar. 25, 2008
An interesting thing happened in 1999. The unit price of a long-distance voice call to consumers, which had been falling since the early 1980s, finally crossed over the cost curve and long-distance voice became a loss ...
Switch usability centers on CLI comfort zone
Mar. 24, 2008
Any assessment of switch usability is necessarily subjective. While there are some objective measures that can be applied (for example, it might take 17 steps to enable SSH on one switch, and only five on another), ...
Alcatel-Lucent wins green bragging rights in switch test
Mar. 24, 2008
With electric bills in large data centers topping $1 million per month, power consumption is a major concern. Using Fluke 322 and Fluke 335 clamp meters, we measured each switch's power draw, both when idle and again ...
The Inside Track on 10GBE Access Switch Testing
Mar. 24, 2008
Network World Lab Alliance member David Newman talks aobut his recent compartive test of 10GBE access switches
10 Gig access switches: Not just packet pushers anymore
Mar. 24, 2008
Our tests found seven next-generation switches bristle with features that don't exist in many previous models - not just physical features like 10-gigabit Ethernet uplinks but also 802.1X-based network access control ...
Alcatel-Lucent and HP integrate SOA security and governance tools
Feb. 20, 2008
Alcatel-Lucent and HP integrate SOA security and governance tools.
Alcatel Lucent brings remote laptop security to Europe
Feb. 20, 2008
Alcatel Lucent will launch a European HSDPA version of its Nonstop Laptop Guardian product, designed to solve the security problems of laptops, including the loss or theft of the data they contain.
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Lucent profile
Overview
2005 NW200 rank: 23
2004 NW200 rank: 23
Revenue
| Total '05 revenue (in $M) |
|
9153 |
| '04-'05 revenue change |
|
0% |
| '01-'05 CAGR revenue |
|
-19% |
Profit
| Profit or loss (in $M) |
|
907 |
| Change from '04 |
|
-7 |
| As percentage of revenue 10 |
|
10 |
| CAGR, '01-'05 |
|
- |
Employees
| Number of employees |
|
30500 |
| '04 - '05 change |
|
-4
|
| Revenue per employee |
|
300098 |
Misc.
| Mkt Cap as of 3/19/05 ($M) |
|
13680 |
| Cash/investments ($M) |
|
|
| Year inc. |
|
1995 |
| Fiscal year ends |
|
Sept |
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