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Alcatel has been in Australia for more than 100 years, operating around the country and employing around 1000 people. They provide the high speed optic cables, mobile communications networks, broadband access solutions and converged networks and services that connect Australians across the land. Alcatel’s devotion to research and development is helping telecommunications technology advance as the world of mobile internet and increased broadband internet access becomes an everyday reality.

Alcatel-Lucent’s vision is to enrich people’s lives by transforming the way the world communicates. Alcatel-Lucent provides solutions that enable service providers, enterprises and governments worldwide, to deliver voice, data and video communication services to end-users.  As a leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband access, carrier and enterprise IP technologies, applications, and services, Alcatel-Lucent offers the end-to-end solutions that enable compelling communications services for people at home, at work and on the move.

With 77,000 employees and operations in more than 130 countries, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with global reach. The company has the most experienced global services team in the industry, and Bell Labs, one of the largest research, technology and innovation organizations focused on communications. Alcatel-Lucent achieved adjusted revenues of Euro 17.8 billion in 2007, and is incorporated in France, with executive offices located in Paris.

Alcatel-Lucent today is one of the largest innovation powerhouses in the communications industry, representing an R&D investment of Euro 2.7 billion, and a portfolio of more than 25,000 active patents spanning virtually every technology area.

History
The formation of Alcatel-Lucent created the world’s first truly global communications solutions provider, with the most complete end-to-end portfolio of solutions and services in the industry.
Alcatel-Lucent combined two entities — Alcatel and Lucent Technologies — which shared a common lineage dating back to 1986. That was the year Alcatel’s parent company, CGE (la Compagnie Générale d’Electricité), acquired ITT’s European telecom business. Nearly 60 years earlier, ITT had purchased most of AT&T’s manufacturing operations outside the United States. Lucent Technologies was spun off from AT&T.