Further success for lightRadio as it underpins Alcatel-Lucent's position as a "business whose innovations force other businesses to alter their strategic course", according to influential annual listing
Paris - March 14, 2012 - lightRadio™, the ground-breaking
wireless networking technology from Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext
Paris and NYSE: ALU) has helped the company into the 2012 TR50 - the
annual list of the world's most innovative technology
companies published by Technology Review, the
independent media company owned by the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Alcatel-Lucent's lightRadio architecture is at the heart of a
family of low power-consuming wireless networking products
enabling operators to cost effectively meet the increasing
demands for data capacity created by the switch from voice to
video communications and the popularity of smartphones and
tablet devices.
lightRadio leverages Bell Labs innovations, breaking down
traditional mobile network product architecture into
component elements. These elements can be sited virtually
anywhere in the network where it makes sense to do so, in
terms of saving cost and power, while creating the
flexibility to grow and shrink capacity to meet customer
demand for mobile broadband.
TR50
members are nominated by Technology Review's editors, who
look for companies that over the last year have demonstrated
original and valuable technology, are bringing that
technology to market at a significant scale, and are clearly
influencing their competitors. Spanning energy, computing,
the Web, biomedicine, and materials, the companies on the
list represent commercial innovations most likely to change
lives around the world.
Commenting on Alcatel-Lucent's inclusion in the 2012 TR50,
Jason Pontin, Editor in Chief and Publisher of Technology
Review, said: "Our endlessly growing appetite for mobile data
is threatening to overwhelm traditional cell phone systems.
Alcatel-Lucent's easily upgradable lightRadio
architecture puts the company at the forefront of keeping up
with that appetite."
Marcus Weldon, Chief Technology Officer for Alcatel-Lucent,
said: "With new mobile devices, new applications and
ever-growing and changing customer demands, the wireless
networks in use today have to evolve. Rather than take an
incremental approach to meet these challenges, Bell Labs took
a leap and developed a radically new approach to wireless
technology."
"lightRadio takes advantage of the latest technological breakthroughs and applications existing today," adds Weldon. " We recently demonstrated lightRadio under real-world conditions with one of the world's leading communications service providers at the wireless industry's biggest annual event, Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. We look forward to seeing these visionary technologies evolve further with the needs of our customers and the intensity of the mobile landscape."
Alcatel-Lucent and the other companies included in the 2012
TR50 will be featured in the March/April edition of
Technology Review and is posted on the Web at www.technologyreview.com/tr50.
Listen to a podcast
about Alcatel-Lucent's selection to the 2012 TR50 featuring
CTO Marcus Weldon.
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