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May 22 2008   8:57PM GMT

ITC Overturns Microsoft Victory Over Alcatel-Lucent



Posted by: Tony Bradley
Alcatel-Lucent, UCC, Microsoft, UC, unified communication, lawsuit, patent, ITC, International Trade Commission

Microsoft is heavily invested in unified communications and they have developed a fair amount of proprietary tools and technologies- many of which they hold patents for. They filed a lawsuit against Alcatel-Lucent for infringing on 4 of their unified communications patents, and originally Alcatel-Lucent was found guilty of violating one of the four patents. This week the ITC overturned that ruling and found in favor of Alcatel-Lucent. This is following the April decision by the ITC in a related countersuit that found Microsoft guilty of violating two Alcatel-Lucent patents in which Microsoft was ordered to pay almost $370 million in damages. The war is not over though between these two. Maybe Microsoft should just buy Alcatel-Lucent and then there won’t be any further allegations of patent infringement?

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Aug 20 2007   6:01AM GMT

BT Undertakes Massive Global Network Overhaul



Posted by: Tony Bradley
Cisco, Fujitsu, BT, Alcatel-Lucent, Huawei Technologies, IP communications, Telecommunications

One of the downsides to being a dominant provider of telecommunications around the world is that it also makes you the owner of legacy telecommunications hardware and networking equipment around the world. Even dominant global providers have to upgrade though. BT has begun a project dubbed 21CN (21st Century Network) estimated at $21 billion and projected to be completed in 2009. The focus of the rollout is to upgrade customers from legacy telecommunications networks to a new, all-IP communications network. Alcatel-Lucent is a key supplier, as is Cisco, Fujitsu, and Huawei Technologies. You can learn more in this article from Computerworld.com.

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