Here here, I think they are now owned by Alcatel.
I think it should be "Hear, Hear" but I'm not the spelling police.
Yeah, they're part of Alcatel-Lucent now.
Thereby hangs a tale, when the Bell System was broken up the
equipment and R&D divisions got split off from the "Baby Bells".
This is complicated and convoluted even to those of us who were
in telecom over the entire period.
Basically those left standing as of right now are AT&T, Qwest and
Verizon as far as local providers. Alcatel-Lucent owns Bell Labs
and what was Western Electric (Now Lucent). Nortel (Canadian) and
Siemens (German) are also providers of choice as far as central office
switches.
Edge equipment in Verizon at least comes mostly from Alcatel-Lucent,
Cisco, Canoga Perkins, and Westell.
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