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The authors analyze a case study of a company's successful use of customer demand planning and sales forecasting audits. The need for improved forecast accuracy is emphasized.

The company that invented digital-subscriber-line technology signaled last week that it believes that market conditions have finally reached the point where it makes sense to introduce products supporting the delivery [...]

After years of serving AT&T's equipment divisions, Bell Labs Design Automation is learning what it takes to be a commercial supplier One of the principal objectives at Lucent Technologies Inc., […]

Nokia has announced a merger with Siemens and abandoned plans for a CDMA mobile phone joint venture with Sanyo. Nokia said it will ?selectively participate in key CDMA markets, with […]

Byline: Liane H. LaBarba A little more than one day after Lucent Technologies publicly outlined its future product strategy, the company made more adjustments to even out its job-cuts-to-products-supported ratio. [...]

TRENTON, N.J. (AP)--Bell Labs is withdrawing patent applications involving work done by a physicist who was fired last month for falsifying a string of breakthrough experiments in electronics. The research […]

Scientists at Bell Labs, the research and development arm of Lucent Technologies [LU], have found a way to peer deep inside a semiconductor and create an image of a single […]

Hewlett-Packard, Lucent Technologies, Oracle, Siemens, and Sun Microsystems have formed an alliance to simplify the process of using cell phones to make purchases. PayCircle will develop standard interfaces that support […]

Lucent Technologies plans to offer a number of new wireless products next year to help restore it to profitability. Lucent recorded a loss of $16.2 billion in fiscal 2001. http://www.varbusiness.com/ […]

The next-generation optical network infrastructures are facing a number of significant challenges due to the combined impacts of escalating optical-networking speeds, the proliferation of optical channels and a telecommunications industry […]

By Holmdel, N.J. - Researchers at Lucent Technologies have devised a method of generating optical-fiber nonlinearities at levels usually unattainable in practical devices. The work was done as part of […]

San Mateo, Calif. - The promising market for large-scale all-optical switching is stalling. At least one vendor has dropped out of the race, claiming that sales of 256- or 1,000-port […]

Silicon Valley -- Facing mounting debt and a sales slump that has nearly idled its chip fabs, Agere Systems Inc. may be forced to take more aggressive measures than slashing […]

In times like these, a company as big as Lucent can generate a lot of bad news. Every week seems to bring more woe for the once-mighty telecom firm, which […]

As carrier sales dry up and enterprise spending shrivels, struggling networking gear vendors such as Lucent Technologies Inc. and Alcatel S.A. are looking to new-or, in some cases, old-customers to […]

By Bruce Sullivan, bsullivan@pbimedia.com Alcatel [ALA] must have really wanted a foothold in the North American market if it was willing to buy Lucent Technologies [LU], according to some analysts. […]

More than 100 dot-coms have been buried since the beginning of 2001, and the carnage is far from over. In addition, the performance of many well-established networking players has been […]

Cisco, Lucent, Nortel tackle downturn FACED WITH A plummeting stock market and depleted sales, networking giants Cisco Systems, Lucent Technologies, and Nortel Networks are refocusing their optical strategies, either by […]

Intel Expands ASP Support Services Intel Online Services Inc., a division of chip giant Intel Corp., last week announced its ASP Accelerator Program to provide member application service providers (ASP) […]

Agere Systems, the optical component and semiconductor maker that's being spun off from Lucent Technologies, last week revised its planned initial public offering for the second time in as many […]

SAN MATEO, Calif. Lucent Technologies has added a new twist to the standard model of running an in-house venture capital fund. While many major high-tech companies have business units that […]

Lucent has created what it calls the first all-silicon chip designed specially for the receivers in base stations that collect radio signals from wireless devices, the company announced Wednesday. The […]

The future of video and the Internet will make Napster look like child's play Kirby Russell, director of marketing programs at Ojai, CA-based Lucent Technologies, spoke with great enthusiasm recently […]

Lucent Technologies Inc. launched a new venture Tuesday devoted to commercializing holographic data storage -- a high-density, high-transfer-rate technology that researchers believe has the potential to vastly improve data storage […]

Reality Check . Thomas Nolle In 1999, Lucent was the shining star of carrier network equipment, with a market position that seemed beyond the reach of any competitor. Today, Lucent's […]

* Lay off 10,000 employees by July and increase the use of contract manufacturers, eliminating ann additional 6000 positions by the end of fiscal year 2001 * Slash manufacturing, R&D […]

Though materials shortages prevented it from meeting unit-shipment projections last quarter, Lucent Technologies Inc. is still planning to dramatically increase its outsourcing plans in 2001. "CEMs couldn't build the products […]

Murray Hill, N.J. - As Lucent Technologies flails in its efforts to fix its financial problems and find a new CEO, solution providers are taking a close look at Avaya, […]

Moon, Mark A., John T. Mentzer, and Dwight E. Thomas, Jr. (2000), 'Customer Demand Planning at Lucent Technologies; A Case Study in Continuous Improvement through Sales Forecast Auditing,' Industrial Marketing [...]

Looking to improve visibility into their manufacturing operations, telecommunications company Lucent Technologies Inc. and Avanex Corp., which provides photonic processors for optical channel transmission, multiplexing, and signal processing, will implement […]

Feature Story Copy Template v4 TC5News1222 December 27, 2000 Lucent: The Next Generation After a devastating year, Bell Labs' caretaker seeks redemption in 2001 Lisa Morgan Some of the most […]

Lucent Thursday said its fiscal first-quarter loss would be wider than expected and announced a restructuring plan to slash over $1 billion in costs. The telecom equipment maker also revised […]

In 1940, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello introduced audiences to their funny, albeit somewhat ridiculous, 'Who's on First?' routine. In September, Lucent Technologies (Murray Hill, NJ) and Corvis Corp. (Columbia, [...]

Lucent's microelectronics group shipped an internal card that will allow laptops and other mobile computing devices to access wireless LANs without an externally attached modem or PC card. The card […]

As COO of Alcatel, the French telecom giant, Krish Prabhu knows a thing or two about scaling big telecommunications networks. And with large incumbent carriers spending billions of dollars on […]

Avaya Inc., the networking spin-off of Lucent Technologies Inc. in Murray Hill, N.J., began trading on the New York Stock Exchange last week, setting the stage for an initiative to […]

If you ever meet Jose Mejia, chief supply officer of Lucent Technology's Supply Network Solutions organization, don't refer to the people who work for him as buyers. Call them supplier [...]

Lucent Technologies Inc. is exploring whether to lease a portion of its lower-end production operations in Columbus to another manufacturer as the company shifts its focus on what representatives call [...]

Thanks to new and improved silicon technology, lower prices and a high degree of product interoperability, 802.11b high-rate wireless LANs are moving into the enterprise space. Bit on a Wire […]

SAN FRANCISCO - The Optical Domain Service Interconnect (ODSI) coalition last week finalized most of a document for optical-to-Internet Protocol interworking, except for a signaling spec (see July 24, page […]

ALLENTOWN, PA. - Lucent Technologies plans to spin off its $4 billion Microelectronics Division. The company revealed the move last week during an announcement of a fiscal third-quarter loss and […]

Lucent Technologies Inc. has selected a familiar face to become president of its spinoff company, a woman who intends to expand the new company's government business globally and cash in […]

LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES last week christened its enterprise networking spin-off company, plans for which were first revealed in March. Lucent expects to complete the spin-off of the new company, called Avaya, […]

Lucent Technologies Enterprise Network Products group -- soon to spin off into a new company -- made one of its strongest moves yet to build its own identity: The company […]

Once on the leading edge of the next generation of telephone switching gear, Lucent Technologies is now rebuilding its softswitch strategy, following the departure of key personnel and the loss […]

NORTH ANDOVER -- Lucent Technologies, Inc. announced that it is expanding the corporate role of its operation here, making the plant one of four 'global systems integration centers' in the [...]