Behind the world-class products and solutions of Alcatel-Lucent is the unrivalled technical and scientific expertise of the largest innovation powerhouse in the communications industry. Thanks to a unique culture of inspiration and reasoned risk-taking, Alcatel-Lucent produces best-in-class inventions, technologies and solutions that not only meet customer’s business-critical needs today, but also change the ways people will communicate tomorrow.

• More than €2.4 billion R&D investment in 2009 (The €2.4 billion amount is actual euros spent before taking into account capitalization of development costs and the impact of the purchase price allocation entries of the business combination with Lucent).
• 15.7% of revenues
• 27,600 active patents worldwide including over 2,100 patents granted during 2009
• More than 500 technical experts providing contributions to more than 100 standardization bodies in more than 200 different working groups

Worldwide Research Development & Engineering workforce distribution (2009)

• Approximately 20,000 personnel overall (including Bell Labs)
• Global reach: worldwide presence in 23 countries and around 50 major centers
• Europe, Middle East and Africa (Eastern Europe included): 39%
• Americas:  33%
• Asia Pacific:  28%
• Alcatel-Lucent’s 18 major R&D centers are: Shanghai (China), Stuttgart (Germany), Bangalore (India), Whippany, Lisle, Marlborough, Murray Hill (USA), Vélizy (France), Antwerp (Belgium), Vimercate (Italy), Chennai (India), Villarceaux (France), Châteaufort (France), Plano (USA), Gurgaon (India), Quingdao (China), Timisoara (Romania) and Lannion (France).

Research & Development workforce by function (2009)

Software :                                             57%

Hardware:                                             11%

Systems & solutions integration:            12%

Architects & project management:         10%

Research:                                              5%

Others (methods, quality…):                   5%

Bell Labs Research (2009)

• More than 1,000 personnel
• Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs has research facilities centers in Belgium, China, France, Germany, India, Ireland, United Sates and South Korea

Research Development & Engineering, and Bell Labs Research areas:

Research and development touches every aspect of business at Alcatel-Lucent, including:

• Wireless and wireline broadband access
• Packet and optical networking
• New service delivery architectures and platforms
• Multimedia and mobile/fixed services and applications
• Network security and network optimization

The company also carries out research in disciplines such as mathematics, the physical sciences, nanotechnology, and computer and software science.