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International Network Services Inc. (INS) was a network architecture services provider based in Mountain View, California. Previously closely associated with
Cisco Cisco Systems, Inc. (using the trademark Cisco) is an American multinational digital communications technology conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, s ...
, it was acquired by the former
Lucent Lucent Technologies, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications equipment company headquartered in Murray Hill, New Jersey. It was established on September 30, 1996, through the divestiture of the former AT&T Technologies busines ...
in 1999 for $3.7bn. Following the collapse of the
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, Lucent sold the unit back to employees and investors for an undisclosed sum. Then in 2007, INS was acquired by
BT Group BT Group plc (formerly British Telecom) is a British Multinational corporation, multinational telecommunications holding company headquartered in London, England. It has operations in around 180 countries and is the largest provider of fixed-li ...
for £133 MM (now part of ''BT Advise'' Professional Services of BT (global services) based out of the US.


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