Alcatel-Lucent

Alcatel-Lucent was trying to improve communication among its employees. Starting slowly, the company now has more than 19,000 employees connected via enterprise social networking tools.

AT&T today announced equipment suppliers for its coming high-speed wireless LTE network and signaled the start of an aggressive battle against rival Verizon Wireless.

Imagine you're the CEO of an old-line technology corporation with 120 years of telecommunications experience, and 80,000 employees scattered across the world. Furthering innovation is a given, but you also have to identify technologies that will resonate with consumers -- not to mention building sustainable business models around them. This is the world that Alcatel-Lucent CEO Ben Verwaayen inhabits.

Telecommunications equipment manufacturer Alcatel-Lucent and IT vendor Hewlett-Packard plan to jointly market their products to businesses looking for converged IT and communications systems.

MPLS routers are moving faster, but sales of DSL access equipment are slowing.

Alcatel-Lucent is introducing its core network gear for LTE at the CTIA trade show this week.

Alcatel-Lucent on Monday launched ng Connect, an initiative to help foster use of LTE and other networks.

Alcatel-Lucent is naming enterprises as one of three markets it will focus on as it lays off 1,000 more workers and makes cuts in other areas in an attempt to turn the company around.

Alcatel-Lucent has introduced a new version of its OmniAccess 3500 Nonstop Laptop Guardian (NLG) that supports HSPA (High Speed Packet Access), it announced on Monday.

Alcatel-Lucent will name Philippe Camus, a former aerospace CEO, as its new chairman perhaps as soon as Tuesday morning, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday afternoon in its online edition, citing "people familiar with the matter." The company also will name former BT executive Ben Verwaayen as the CEO, the Journal said, quoting an anonymous source.