Alcatel–Lucent S.A.

 (French pronunciation: [alkatɛl lysɛnt]) was a French–American

global telecommunications equipment company, headquartered in Boulogne-Billancourt, France.
It was formed in 2006 by the merger of France-based Alcatel and U.S.-based Lucent, the latter
being a successor of AT&T's Western Electric and Bell Labs.[1]
In 2014, the Alcatel-Lucent group split into two: Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, providing enterprise
communication services, and Alcatel-Lucent, selling to communications operators. The enterprise
business was sold to a Chinese company in the same year, and in 2016 Nokia purchased the rest
of Alcatel-Lucent.
The company focused on fixed, mobile and converged networking
hardware, IP technologies, software and services, with operations in more than 130 countries. It
had been named Industry Group Leader for Technology Hardware & Equipment sector in the
2014 Dow Jones Sustainability Indices review[2] and listed in the 2014 Thomson Reuters Top 100
Global Innovators for the 4th consecutive year.[3] Alcatel-Lucent also owned Bell Laboratories, one
of the largest research and development facilities in the communications industry, whose
employees have been awarded nine Nobel Prizes and the company holds in excess of 29,000
patents.[4]
On 3 November 2016, Nokia completed the acquisition of the company and it was merged into
their Nokia Networks division. Bell Labs was maintained as an independent subsidiary of Nokia.[1]
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The Alcatel-Lucent brand has been replaced by Nokia, but it survives in the form of Alcatel-
Lucent Enterprise, the enterprise division of Alcatel-Lucent that was sold to China Huaxin in 2014
for €202 million ($254m) but the division headquartered near Paris.[6][7]