The Venus flower basket, for example, a kind of deep-sea sponge, has spiny skeletal outgrowths that are remarkably similar, both in appearance and optical properties, to commercial optical fibres, notes Joanna Aizenberg, a researcher at Lucent Technology's Bell Laboratories in New Jersey.
And on February 7th Alcatel-Lucent unveiled technology that reduces the size of a wireless base station from a filing cabinet's to that of a Rubik's cube.
But analysts wanted Alcatel to get into data-networking technology, where Lucent, Nortel and Cisco rule the roost.
Jass Sarai, U.K. technology leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Ben Verwaayen, CEO of Alcatel-Lucent, both look good by expressing caution over the uptake of the next generation of mobile technology in Europe this year.
In his July 1999 Gilder Technology Report, George writes that Lucent already possesses the know-how to cram 864 fiber-optic strands, each carrying 5 trillion bits per second, into one cable sheath.
Ericsson, Qualcomm and Alcatel-Lucent of manipulating a European standards board to keep its location technology out of the next generation of cellular phones.
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"For all the talk coming out of Cisco about adding Old World technology to their Internet products, it's really up to companies like Lucent and Nortel, who actually have experience in the old telecom world, to make it happen, " says Hilary Mine of Probe Research.
Eventually the technology will hit the U.S., and the gunsights will shift to Lucent and Motorola.
Parent company Alcatel-Lucent began showing the concept to outsiders in October, but neither organization wanted to specify when the technology would be released.
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