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Published Date: March 14, 1997
Company Name: Lucent Technologies
Address: Headquarters: 600 Mountain Avenue
Murray Hill, N.J. 07974
Main Telephone
Number: 908/582-8500
Chief Executive
Officer: Henry B. Schacht
Chief Operating
Officer: Richard A. McGinn
URL Address: http://www.lucent.com
Trading Symbol: LU
Industry: Telecommunications
Company description: Employees: 121,000 employees worldwide Revenues: $23 billion for 1996 Locations: Offices or distributors in more than 90 countries and territories around the world. Charter: Lucent Technologies designs, builds and delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems In telecommunication, a communications system is a collection of individual communications networks, transmission systems, relay stations, tributary stations, and data terminal equipment (DTE) usually capable of interconnection and interoperation to form an integrated whole. and software, consumer and business telephone systems and microelectronics components for customers worldwide. Bell Laboratories is the research and development arm for the company. Lucent Technologies was formed as a result of AT&T's restructuring and became a fully independent company on Sept. 30, 1996. Businesses: Lucent Technologies consists of the following units: -- Network Systems -- provides public networking systems and software to telecommunications service providers A Telecommunications Service Provider or TSP is a type of Communications Service Provider that has traditionally provided telephone and similar services. This category includes ILECs, CLECs, and mobile wireless companies. and public network operators Business Communications Systems -- develops, manufactures, markets and services advanced communications products and systems for business customers -- Microelectronics Group -- designs and manufactures high-performance integrated circuits Integrated circuits Miniature electronic circuits produced within and upon a single semiconductor crystal, usually silicon. Integrated circuits range in complexity from simple logic circuits and amplifiers, about 1/20 in. (1. , optoelectronic Refers to devices that function due to the interaction of light and electronics. For example, an electronic signal is the input to a laser diode, which generates light pulses that are transmitted through an optical fiber. components, and power systems for applications in the telecommunications and computing computing - computer industries Consumer Products -- designs, manufactures, sells, services and leases corded and wireless communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. devices for consumers and small businesses -- Bell Laboratories -- conducts research and development work supporting all our businesses. Its work focuses on software and information sciences, communications sciences, wireless and broadband networking technologies, digital signal processing See DSP. Digital Signal Processing - (DSP) Computer manipulation of analog signals (commonly sound or image) which have been converted to digital form (sampled). , microelectronics and photonics photonics, the science and technology based on and concerned with the controlled flow of photons, or light particles. It is the optical equivalent of electronics, and the two technologies coexist in such innovations as optoelectronic integrated circuits. . For more information contact: Lucent Technologies Corporate Media Relations 908/582-4545 CONTACT: Lucent Technologies |
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