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Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs is the leading source of new communications
technologies and has been for more than eighty years. It has generated more
than 33,000 patents since 1925 and has played a pivotal role in inventing or
perfecting key communications technologies, including transistors, digital
networking and signal processing, lasers and fiber-optic communications
systems, communications satellites, cellular telephony, electronic switching of
calls, touch-tone dialing, and modems.
Bell Labs is working to develop the next technological breakthroughs - from
enterprise solutions for eHealthcare, to "green" research in eco-sustainable
technologies, to Web 3.0 research for social/work platforms, to new
breakthroughs in optical networking and applications for service providers.
Recently, Bell Labs has produced:
- IMS Service Enhancement Layer, a library of Bell Labs-developed
technologies that work across wireless and wireline networks to simplify and
speed delivery of services;
- Base Station Router, an innovation that integrates key components of
third-generation (3G) mobile networks into a single network element, thus
"flattening" what is typically a more complex architecture;
- Softswitches, the “brains’ of a new network architecture that enables
service providers to quickly introduce new services and manage the convergence
of voice and data traffic on their networks;
- Smart antennas and other wireless technologies that can reduce equipment
size and data traffic on networks;
- Raman and L-band amplifiers, which expand the capacity of optical
networks;
- Software and technology that can shorten service-creation intervals,
improve customer relationships, reduce costs, and optimize networks;
- The technology behind the transmissions of 100 Gigabit per second (Gb/s)
Ethernet over optical fiber; and
- Nanotechnology, which enables new types of batteries, lenses, microphones,
and sensors, as well as quantum computing and government communications.
- Bell Labs has eight research centers located in the United States,
France, Belgium, Germany, Ireland, India, China and South Korea.
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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).
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15.7% of revenues
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27,600 active patents worldwide including over 2,100 patents granted
during 2009
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More than 500 technical experts providing contributions to more than
100 standardization bodies in more than 200 different working
groups
Researchers at Bell Labs have received numerous awards, including seven
Nobel Prizes in physics, nine U.S. national Medals of Science, seven U.S.
National Medals of Technology, two Draper Prizes, an Emmy, a Grammy, and an
Academy Award. Our scientists and engineers have played a pivotal role in
inventing or perfecting most of the key communications technologies in use
today, including:
- the transistor, which ushered in the digital age
- the charge-coupled device (CCD) which made digital imaging and portable
video possible
- the UNIX computer operating system, which is the foundation of the
Internet
- the C computer programming language
- the laser
- communication satellites
- cellular telephony
- IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem), the new architecture for converged
communication networks and services
The global headquarters for Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs is located in Murray
Hill, N.J., in the United States.
Bell Labs is the innovation arm of Alcatel-Lucent and has been
operating continuously since 1925.
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