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India
Telecom
December 27, 2004
Lucent to establish Bell Labs Research Center in India
Work
will focus on fundamental research in computing and
communications software for global, high-speed, highly
reliable multimedia networks.
BANGALORE
-- Lucent Technologies recently announced the establishment
of a Bell Labs Research center in India that will pursue
the kind of basic and applied research in communications
software that has made the R&D laboratory famous
around the world. Dignitaries on hand to inaugurate
the new center were Karnataka Chief Minister N. Dharam
Singh, Sam Pitroda, telecom industry expert and member
of India's National Advisory Council, and Michael Thomas,
the U.S. Consulate General for Southern Region.
The
Bangalore-based facility will be an integral part of
Bell Labs, Lucent's world-renowned R&D arm. Bell
Labs scientists have received six Nobel Prizes in Physics,
nine US Medals of Science and eight US Medals of Technology.
Bell Labs earns at least two patents a day and was granted
its 30,000th US patent on March 10, 2003. Scientists
at Bell Labs Research in India will focus on developing
state-of-the-art software systems for enabling the world's
leading wireline and wireless service providers to deploy
and manage high-speed, highly reliable networks. Example
focus areas include:
- Computer
algorithms: This includes complexity theory, approximation
algorithms, graph algorithms, linear programming,
game theory.
- Networking:
This includes switch architectures for routing packets
at high speeds, and protocol design for data, optical
and wireless networks.
- Network
management: This includes software for configuring
network parameters to improve resource utilization,
monitoring end-to-end performance, isolating the root
cause of faults, and detecting security violations.
- Data
management: This includes software for integrating
data from diverse sources, reconciling discrepancies
among the data, and mining/analyzing massive network
data streams.
Dr.
Jeff Jaffe, president, Research and Advanced Technologies,
Bell Labs said: "Establishing a Bell Labs Research
Center in India signifies Lucent's commitment to creating
a long-term presence here. The scientists at this facility
will be members of the elite Bell Labs research community.
We expect them to contribute fundamental advances to
our understanding of how to build, monitor and manage
the most complex and interactive global communications
networks."
Dr.
Rajeev Rastogi, executive director, Bell Labs Research
in India added: "Our focus will be on conducting
fundamental and applied research in scientific fields
related to computing and communications software. We
will also partner closely with Lucent's customers as
they deploy new technologies (e.g., wireless data, EV-DO),
and devise innovative solutions to their challenges.
In the tradition of Bell Labs, we intend to attract
and excite the best and brightest minds produced by
India's world-class educational institutions."
Rastogi will report to Krishan Sabnani, senior vice
president of Networking Research at Bell Labs, who was
also present.
C.S.
Rao, president and CEO of Lucent Technologies in India
noted: "Bringing Bell Labs Research to India is
a major accomplishment. It is a welcome development
of Lucent's presence in India that takes us to an exciting
world of research to deliver a continuous stream of
software innovations to Lucent's products and services
portfolio."
Besides
conducting scientific research, Bell Labs Research in
India will support the work done in Lucent's development
labs in Bangalore and Hyderabad, and assist as needed
in meeting the needs of Lucent's customers. With over
1,300 software engineers already on staff, India is
already a major hub for Lucent's R&D activities.
The Indian R&D team supports Lucent's customers
in India and across the globe.
Bell
Labs, the R&D division of Lucent Technologies, is
the leading source of new communications technologies.
It has generated over 30,000 patents since 1925, and
has played a pivotal role in inventing or perfecting
key communications technologies, including transistors,
digital networking and signal processing, lasers and
fiber-optic communications systems, communications satellites,
cellular telephony, electronic switching of calls, touch-tone
dialing, and modems. Bell Labs Research, India, located
in Bangalore, is an integral part of Bell Labs.
Contact:
Lucent Technologies
www.lucent.com
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