Company Overview
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Operations in more 130 countries.
The company has job opportunities in locations throughout the United States.
France-based Alcatel makes telecommunications, networking, Internet, and optics equipment, with a focus on the following markets: high-speed Internet access, terrestrial and submarine optical networks, and intelligent networks. The company serves telecom providers and Internet service providers as well as other businesses and consumers. Alcatel has several main lines of business: Carrier Networking (which serves telecommunications service providers), Optics (which makes systems to transmit voice, data, and multimedia applications through optical fibers and cables), E-Business (which makes business and consumer products including PBXs, local area network (LAN) switches, data communication equipment, and GSM and GPRS handsets), and Space and Components (which makes space-based systems for the high-speed transport of voice, data, and multimedia communications). Alcatel agreed to purchase rival Lucent Technologies for $13.4 billion in 2006 and also picked up Nortel Networks' UMTS access network assets for $320 million in what turned out to be a busy year.