Alcatel-Lucent has announced that it is hunting for a new CEO, following reports of a fourth-quarter net loss of 1.37 billion (US$1.81 billion). Current CEO Ben Verwaayen will step down as soon as a replacement is found, and will not seek ...
Bell Labs—the research organization within Alcatel-Lucent—says it has laid the foundation for the future of ultra-high-capacity optical communication networks with the publication of the results of “ground-breaking ...
Looking to converge its telecoms services, the UAE-based Du announced on Tuesday that it had partnered with Alcatel-Lucent to deploy the latest IP-routing technology. The move will eliminate the need for Du to manage multiple networks, ...
Tags: Du, telecoms services, Alcatel-Lucent
Softbank has sold off a large portion of a local carrier it acquired just weeks ago, as it looked to assuage fears over its expanded control of Japan's wireless spectrum. The company, which runs one of Japan's largest mobile operators, ...
Tags: Softbank, wireless spectrum, eAccess
A US-based sustainable manufacturing consortium, the International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (iNEMI), is partnering with its member, Purdue University, and Tuskegee University on an international effort to replace conventional ...
2012 has been a year of re-invention among the tech industry's biggest players, with Microsoft overhauling many of its key product lines, most notably Windows, while also boldly entering the hardware market with Surface tablets. HP slashed ...
Cisco Systems plans to build small cellular base stations, building upon its fast-growing business in Wi-Fi base stations for mobile operator networks, Chairman and CEO John Chambers said on Tuesday. The move will bring the networking ...
Alcatel-Lucent's enterprise division this week jumped into the SDN market with a strategy to fortify products to enhance network programmability and virtualization. The company is augmenting its Application Fluent Network strategy with a ...
Tags: SDN market, network programmability, Cisco, VMware
French telecom equipment company Alcatel-Lucent plans to cut 5,000 jobs after reporting a net loss of $308 million in the second quarter, it said on Thursday. A performance program announced by the company will also involve exiting or ...
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The Wireless Broadband Alliance has announced that it is teaming up with the Small Cell Forum to deepen integration between Wi-Fi hotspots and licensed small cells. A number of companies already manufacture small cells that incorporate ...
Tags: Wireless Broadband Alliance, Small Cell Forum, WiFi hotspots, small cells
It really was apples-to-apples. The $100 million price differential between the Alcatel-Lucent and Cisco proposals to refresh California State University's 23-campus network that we wrote about earlier this week was based on an identical ...
Tags: Cisco proposals, California State University, network, switches, routers
Sujay Rao's combined expertise in web applications, telephony infrastructure to support company's growth. REDWOOD CITY, CA, October 25, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- SalesPortal, the first partnership marketing network for enterprises with ...
Samsung announced it will help develop Sprint's small-cell infrastructure for use in Sprint's 4G LTE network and its 3G network improvements. Samsung, also the top mobile phone provider in the U.S., said in a statement Thursday that the ...
Tags: Samsung, small cell, Sprint, 4G LTE network, 3G network
Telecoms kit maker Alcatel-Lucent is to cut 5,000 jobs as part of a move to save EUR750m (GBP 588m) amid results which saw the company haemorrhaging profits for the second quarter. For the three months to June, the company lost EUR254m in ...
Tags: Telecoms, haemorrhaging profits, second quarter, company news
Sprint plans to deploy small cell gear from Alcatel-Lucent to augment its wireless coverage -- including in its new 4G LTE network -- in high-traffic areas, the two companies announced Monday. Alcatel-Lucent's LightRadio Metro Cells are ...
Tags: Sprint, small cell gear, wireless coverage, LTE network