Bell Labs receives Excellence in Innovation Certificate from US Department of Commerce

Bell Labs receives Excellence in Innovation Certificate from US Department of Commerce

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that its Bell Labs research organization has been honored with the U.S. Department of Commerce’s “Recognition of Excellence in Innovation” certificate.

Presented by Robert Cresanti, Senior Technology Advisor, Office of the Secretary of Commerce, and Chief Privacy Officer for the Department, this certificate recognizes Bell Labs for its continuing role in generating innovations and technologies that are at the core of today’s cutting edge voice, data and video solutions for service providers, enterprises and governments worldwide.

Specifically highlighted by Cresanti were Bell Labs innovations over the past year – in particular the recent roll out of Alcatel-Lucent’s revolutionary OmniAccess 3500 Nonstop Laptop Guardian, which was invented by Bell Labs and incubated by Alcatel-Lucent Ventures under the code name Evros. The Nonstop Laptop Guardian has been hailed as a powerful technology to address the critical IT challenge of end-point security. With this solution, IT staff can fully protect off-site laptops and laptop data remain visible and accessible to the enterprise 24/7 – even when the laptop is off the network, offline or powered off.

Dr. Jeong H. Kim, President of Bell Labs, accepted the certificate in a ceremony at its Murray Hill, N.J. facility with researchers and scientists from around the world in attendance both in person and via a live Webcast. Also present were John Giere, Alcatel-Lucent’s chief marketing officer and head of government affairs and Dave Bishop COO/CTO for LGS, Alcatel-Lucent’s subsidiary to serve the U.S. government market. Grant Seiffert, President of the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), the leading trade association for the information, communications and entertainment technology industry, also participated in the presentation. As part of this ceremony Cresanti recognized Bell Labs researchers Dr. Albert Y. Cho and Dr. Herwig Kogelnik, both of whom were recent recipients of the National Medal of Technology® and were in attendance at the ceremony. He also noted the achievements of recent National Medal of Technology® award winner and former Bell Labs researcher Dr. James West.

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