Stories about: Lucent Technologies

In February, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger ordered "a focused examination and assessment of California state government." The US$10 million review, conducted by about 275 state employees and released in early August, calls for about a bizillion changes to the way that state's government is run.

A modular, standardized network equipment specification being pushed by Intel as a time-saver and cost-cutter for vendors of carrier gear made a splash at last week's Supercomm trade show in Chicago.

Juniper Networks Inc. this week disclosed an ambitious plan to unite the industry around a common vision for public networking that attempts to resolve some shortcomings the vendor says are inherent in the Internet.

While global Wi-Fi use is set to explode over the next five years, revenue from the technology is due to shrink, leading to a consolidation of the market, according to a report released this week by Pyramid Research.

MontaVista Software, a privately held developer of embedded Linux software, said Tuesday its revenue doubled in 2002 compared to the previous year.

Telecommunications equipment giant Lucent Technologies Inc. last week introduced a new tool it says will help companies protect their DNS infrastructure from hackers.

Lucent Technologies Inc. is discontinuing development of its next-generation ATM multiservice switch in an effort to trim its product portfolio as part of a restructuring plan to return to profitability.

Optical equipment manufacturers are on the brink of releasing equipment that will pave the way to 40G bps (bits per second) network transmission speeds that are four times current data rates - the equivalent of transmitting seven CD-ROMs worth of data in one second.