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Lucent Technologies, Inc., was an American multinational telecommunications equipment company headquartered in Murray Hill, New Jersey, in the United States. It was established on September 30, 1996, through the divestiture of the former AT&T Technologies business unit of AT&T Corporation, which included Western Electric and Bell Labs.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History of Lucent Technologies Inc. )〕 Lucent was merged with Alcatel SA of France in a merger of equals on December 1, 2006, forming Alcatel-Lucent.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Alcatel and Lucent Technologies to Merge and Form World's Leading Communication Solutions Provider )〕 ==Name== Lucent means "light-bearing" in Latin. The name was applied in 1996 at the time of the split from AT&T. The name was widely criticised, as the logo was to be, both internally and externally. Corporate communications and business cards included the strapline 'Bell Labs Innovations' in a bid to retain the prestige of the internationally famous research lab, within a new business under an as-yet unknown name. This same linguistic root also gives Lucifer, "the light bearer" (from lux, 'light', and ferre, 'to bear'〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ferre — The Latin Dictionary )〕), who is also a character in Dante's epic poem ''Inferno''. Shortly after the Lucent renaming in 1996, the Plan 9 project released a development of their work as the Inferno OS in 1997.〔 This extended the 'Lucifer' and Dante references as a series of punning names for the components of Inferno - Dis, Limbo, Charon and Styx (9P Protocol). When the rights to Inferno were sold in 2000, the company Vita Nuova Holdings was formed to represent them. This continues the Dante theme, although moving away from his ''Divine Comedy'' to the poem ''La Vita Nuova''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lucent」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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