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AT&T Wireless Services, a leading provider of wireless communications in North America, has announced a multi-vendor program to meet the growing demand for its wireless service. The program, which will see the installation of new wireless equipment from Lucent Technologies and Nortel Networks in high-growth markets, is expected
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Lucent Technologies has introduced the SuperPipe 95 and SuperPipe 155, a family of next-generation multiservice data, voice, and video access routers. These high-performance, secure, and scalable solutions enable small to mid-sized companies and large enterprise branch offices to access high-bandwidth applications on the Internet and deploy value-added services such as
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Lucent Technologies Inc. has agreed to acquire Excel Switching Corp. in a deal worth $1.7 billion in Lucent stock, marking the company's third acquisition in the past two weeks and its 11th this year. The acquisition aims to tap into smaller phone companies emerging to compete with
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A critical frame-relay network outage at MCI WorldCom has left nearly 15% of its customers, including the Chicago Board of Trade's (CBOT) electronic trading system, without high-speed access for over a week. The disruption has affected 12,000 customers, including Internet service providers, banks, and other businesses. MCI
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The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) was forced to suspend its electronic trading system, known as Project A, due to ongoing glitches with an MCI WorldCom communications system. The system, which handles 1 million contracts a month, or about 5 percent of the exchange's total, was idled for
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Lucent Technologies, a leading designer and builder of networks and communications systems, has announced the signing of a definitive agreement to merge with International Network Services (INS). The acquisition, valued at approximately $3.7 billion, is expected to strengthen Lucent's position in the rapidly growing professional services and
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Lucent Technologies announced an enhanced version of its standards-based, secure virtual private networking (VPN) solution, the Lucent VPN Gateway 2.0, which delivers highly manageable, scalable, and secure private network connections over the Internet for remote access, intranet, and extranet applications. This all-in-one, high-performance VPN solution supports large businesses by
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Trend Micro, a leading provider of centrally managed virus protection, has announced the shipment of its InterScan VirusWall 3.2 and eManager software solution for Lucent Technologies' Lucent Managed Firewall. This integrated solution is specifically designed to meet the needs of networked enterprise and Internet Service Provider (ISP) environments,
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The Home Phoneline Networking Alliance (HomePNA) has unanimously adopted a new technology proposal for 10 Megabit per second (10 Mbps) home networking. This technology, proposed by Lucent Technologies and Epigram, will enable home users to access high-speed Internet services from multiple devices using a single modem and Internet service provider.
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Unimax Systems Corporation, the leading developer of configuration management software, has announced a partnership with Lucent Technologies to include Mailbox Manager software with all of Lucent's new Octel(R) 200/300 and Octel(R) 250/350 voice and fax message servers and upgrades. This partnership is a significant
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Carly Fiorina, a 44-year-old senior executive at Lucent Technologies, has taken over as the chief executive of Hewlett-Packard (HP), marking a significant milestone in the company's history. Fiorina has replaced Lew Platt, who will stay on as chairman until the end of the year. As HP's
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e.Digital Corp., a company specializing in digital audio solutions, has partnered with Liquid Audio to develop a secure portable music player that meets the requirements of the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI). The device features e.Digital's MicroOS operating system, DSP technology from Texas Instruments, and the
