Alcatel-Lucent

Alcatel Lucent was established while France based Alcatel merged with the US based Lucent Technologies on December 1, 2006. It is a leading supplier of enterprise communications solutions and services, from the office to the cloud, promoted under the Alcatel Lucent Enterprise brand. It focused on fixed, mobile and converged networking hardware, IP technologies, software, and services, with operations. Building on their established heritage of innovation and entrepreneurial spirit, they operate internationally with 2700+ employees in 100+ countries worldwide, with headquarters near Paris, France. Alcatel Lucent owned Bell Laboratories, one of the largest research and development facilities in the communications industry, whose employees have been awarded eight Nobel Prizes and the company holds in excess of 29,000 patents. On November 3, 2016, Nokia completed the acquisition of the company and it was merged into their Nokia Networks division. Bell Labs was still continued as an independent subsidiary of Nokia. The Alcatel Lucent brand has been replaced by Nokia, but it still survives under Alcatel Lucent Enterprise, the enterprise division of Alcatel Lucent that was sold to China Huaxin in 2014.