ALE International SAS, trading as Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, is a French software company headquartered in

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, France, providing communication equipment and services to telecommunications companies, ISPs and data providers. The company was founded after China Huaxin Post and Telecom Technologies acquired the enterprise division of

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in 2014. Since March 2019, Nicolas Brunel has served as President of Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise.

History

Background

The company has origins in French telecommunications company Alcatel (acronym for the Société Alsacienne de Constructions Atomiques, de Télécommunications et d'Électronique), that formed as a result of a series of merges and acquisitions by Compagnie Générale d'Electricité (CGE) in the late 1960s. However, the predecessors of the company have been a part of telecommunications industry since the late 19th century. In 2006,

was formed by the merger of France-based Alcatel and U.S.-based

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, the latter being a successor of AT&T's

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and

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Establishment

spun off its Enterprise division on 1 October 2014 to Chinese company China Huaxin Post and Telecommunication Economy Development Center (later renamed China Huaxin Post and Telecom Technologies). Alcatel-Lucent retained a 15% stake. ALE International continued to use the Alcatel-Lucent brand name, now licensed from

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, which purchased Alcatel-Lucent in 2015. In 2016, Alcatel-Lucent was merged into

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, while Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise continued as a separate company.

Technology and organization

The company develops infrastructure software for access networking, data centers, wireless networks, voice-over-IP, unified communications, contact centers, and cloud services, among others. In 2019, ALE was the first vendor to release a certified

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outdoor access point. In April 2021, it released two Wi-Fi 6 indoor access points. In May 2021, the company designed Rainbow Classroom, a cloud-based virtual classroom for educational institutions with communication tools for remote group learning. Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise has its main offices at 32 Avenue Kleber in

, France. The company operates its business through three main corporate divisions: Core Networking, Access and Other.

References

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