Alcatel-Lucent believes in innovation at the speed of ideas

September 05, 2013

Vikas Vashisht,
Head of Marketing and Communications,
Alcatel-Lucent India

Home to more than seven Nobel prizes, nine U.S. Medals of Science, seven U.S. Medals of Technology, two Draper prizes, eight Marconi Awards, Alcatel-Lucent delivers the innovation that the customers need to stay ahead, evolve, become radically more efficient, and move at the speed of ideas, both in the lab and in the marketplace. Since its inception in the 19th century, the company has maintained its reputation as a global telecommunications corporation of repute, and provides telecommunication solutions to service providers, enterprises and governments around the world, enabling these customers to deliver voice, data and video services. To sum up, Alcatel-Lucent has been able to bring an unparalleled heritage of ideas and execution to meet the challenge of realizing the potential of a connected world.
Unique Quotient
At Alcatel-Lucent, fresh thinking and out-of-the-box ideas are encouraged and nurtured. This has helped the company become a successful brand and a company. Innovation is an integral and inseparable part of the company. The company takes pride in being home to Bell Labs, one of the world’s foremost research centres. This research centre is an innovation engine with researchers responsible for many of the breakthroughs that have given a new dimension to the networking and communications industry. As a matter of fact, innovations by Alcatel-Lucent have made communication more sustainable, affordable and accessible to a great degree.
Competitive Advantage
Alcatel-Lucent is intuitive, curious, inventive, practical and bold, and has made open innovations a strategic priority and has played a leading role in various collaborative initiatives, from research consortia and partnerships to standards bodies and industry groups. The creation of GreenTouch, an international industry consortium dedicated to improve the energy efficiency of communications networks by a factor of 1,000; commitment to the Global eSustainability Initiative (GeSI) are examples of how Alcatel-Lucent is translating its eco-sustainability goals into concrete collaborative initiatives. The company is a recognized innovator in ICT and plays a pivotal role in dissemination of new ideas and brings new solutions to the market.
Alcatel-Lucent offers its customers universal inventory and utilizes the company’s tradition of brilliant ideas and clever execution to unleash the potential of the connected world.
Feats Fetched
The scientists and engineers of Alcatel-Lucent have played an important role in inventing or perfecting most of the key communications technologies which are used today. These include 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 and IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem), the new architecture for converged communication networks and services.

Product Suite
* IP/MPLS and Carrier Ethernet
* Wireless Access
* Wireless Packet Core
* Wireless Transmission
* Wireline Access
* Customer Experience
* Cloud
* Data Center
* Next Generation Intelligent Networks
* Optics
* Rich Communications
* Subscriber Data Management
* Content Delivery and Management
* IMS Communications
Did you know?
* Alcatel-Lucent was named in MIT Technology Review’s 2012 Top 50 list of the “World’s Most Innovative Companies”.

Download logo....