Our team has won numerous awards and received industry recognition for technological breakthroughs and scientific achievements.

October 2009

• Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith were awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for their invention and development of the charge-coupled device (CCD), a technology that transforms patterns of light into useful digital information. CCD technology is the basis for many forms of modern imaging, and is widely used in devices as diverse as digital cameras, video cameras, and bar code readers as well as in security monitoring, medical endoscopy, modern astronomy, video conferencing and is the basis for many forms of modern imaging.
• Andrew Chraplyvy and Robert Tkach of Bell Labs were awarded the 2009 Marconi Prize for their insights into how information is transmitted over optical networks and for finding innovative ways to significantly increase the speed and capacity of optical fiber communications systems. This is the eigth time that Bell Labs scientists have won the Marconi Prize.

July 2009

• Al Cho, together with Professor Leonid Keldysh of Russia, will be awarded the 2009 RUSNANOPRIZE in the field of Nano Electronics for the innovation “semiconductor superstructures and the technology of molecular beam epitaxy.” The award ceremony will be held during the Nanotechnology International Forum in Moscow on Oct 6, 2009.  A prize will also go to the RIBER company of France that commercialized the MBE growth machine. This is the first time the prize will be awarded not only for nanotechnology scientific discoveries and innovations but for their application to mass production.
• Dor Skuler, general manager of mobile security in Alcatel-Lucent's enterprise business group, was named as one of the Global Telecoms Business publication’s ‘Forty under Forty’ leading young executives in the telecoms industry. Skuler incubated and commercialized the OmniAccess 3500 Nonstop Laptop Guardian.
• Reinaldo Valenzuela  has been given the 2010 IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award for his pioneering contributions to multi antennas systems and microwave propagation. The IEEE bestows the Sumner Award annually to an individual or small team for their outstanding contributions to communications technology.  It is named in honor of Eric E. Sumner, 1991 IEEE President, who retired as Vice President, Operations Planning, AT&T Bell Laboratories after a long and distinguished career.

June 2009

• Chris Doerr  received the IEEE William Streifer Award for pioneering research on highly functional integrated optical circuits based on arrayed waveguide grating routers and their implementation in advanced optical networks.
• Rene-Jean Essiambre, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Bell Labs and Yves Baeyens, Technical Manager, Bell Labs have been selected to take part in the esteemed National Academy of Engineering's (NAE) 15th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium.

March 2009

• Bell Labs TIGER  receives the 2009 Celtic Excellence Award. The TIGER project team was awarded the Celtic excellence award for their outstanding achievements in the Metro Ethernet market.

February 2009

• Jeong Kim  received the 2009 Chinese Institute of Engineering's Lifetime Achievement Award for his record of significant contributions to academia, public service and industry, and personal achievements.
• Holger Claussen, Lester Ho, and Florian Pivit  received the 2008 Eckermann-Telecommunications Journal of Australia (TJA) Prize for their work on improving radio access network power efficiency through the use of joint small cell and macrocell deployments. They also received an Alcatel-Lucent Corporate Social Responsibility Award in 2008.

January 2009

• Gerard Foschini and Bob Tkach  were elected as new members at the 2009 National Academy of Engineering. Gerard Foschini was elected for contributions to the science and technology of wireless communications with multiple antennas for transmission and receiving, and Bob Tkach for contributions to research and development of terabit/second optical-fiber communication systems and networks.
• Chris Doerr.  2009 OSA Fellow for his significant contributions to planar lightwave/photonic integrated circuits.
• Al Cho. 2009 U.S. National Inventors Hall of Fame for his MBE (molecular beam epitaxi) invention.
• Jingdong Chen. 2009 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper for “New Insights into the Noise Reduction Wiener Filter."
• Yves Baeyens, Andy Chraplyvy, Alan Gnauck, Anwar Walid, Peter Winzer and Thomas Woo. 2009 IEEE Fellows.
• Yves Chabal and Krishan Raghavachari. 2009 APS Davisson-Germer Prize. On fundamental surface infrared spectroscopy and quantun chemical methods to silicon surface reactions important in microelectronics.
• Theo Siegrist. 2009 Humboldt Research Prize.

July 2007

• Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs veterans Herwig Kogelnik and James E. West awarded 2006 U.S. National Medal Of Technology. Herwig Kogelnik, currently Adjunct Photonics Systems Research Vice President at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, and Bell Labs Alumnus James Edward West, currently Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering, Baltimore, have been chosen to receive 2006 U.S. National Medal of Technology awards from President George W. Bush. Read more.
• Alcatel-Lucent wins India’s TEMA award for Excellence in R&D for pioneering WiMAX technology. The C-DOT Alcatel-Lucent Research Centre—a joint venture between the two organizations — has received the Telecom Equipment Manufacturer’s Association (TEMA) Award for Excellence in R&D 2007 from Dr. Shakeel Ahmed, Honorable Minister of State for Communications & IT. Read more.

June 2007

• Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs luminary Alfred Y. Cho awarded 2005 U.S. National Medal Of Technology. Alfred Y. Cho, Adjunct Vice President of Semiconductor Research at Alcatel-Lucent’s Bell Labs, has been chosen as a recipient of the 2005 U.S. National Medal of Technology. The U.S. National Medal of Technology is the highest honor awarded by the President of the United States for technological innovation. Read More.

May 2007

• The “Trophées du Droit & du Contentieux 2007 Law and Litigation Awards” has bestowed Sophie Korakis-Ménager, Alcatel-Lucent Corporate Intellectual Property counsel, with the Silver Trophy of Intellectual Property Director award. Sponsored by the Ministry of Justice and the French Organization of Legal Counsel, the Law and Litigation Awards ceremony takes place every year and rewards best legal competences and practices.

March 2007

• Alcatel-Lucent achieves a world record 25.6 Terabit/s optical transmission.  Alcatel combined research teams of Bell Labs from the United States and Research and Innovation from France successfully transmitted a world record 25.6 Terabits per second (Tb/s) of optical data over a single fiber strand, using 160 Wavelength-Division Multiplexed (WDM) channels - enough bandwidth to transmit the data from more 600 DVDs per second. Read more.

February 2007

• The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) standardization body has bestowed Michael R. Brenner the “Contributor and Achievement Award”. The award is for his outstanding efforts and contributions to OMA's technical working groups and is the first ever such award in this category.

October 2006

• Bell Labs Optical Physics Researcher Richart Slusher was presented with 2006 Max Born Award.
• Vince Pizzica, Asia Pacific CTO, won the Telecommunications Society of Australia's Rothwell Prize for his paper "The rise of telecommunications in China"
• Alcatel awarded by SPORTELMonaco: Alcatel's "America's Cup Live Sailing" new media service wins 2006 SPORTEL Golden Podium Awards. Read more.
• Emmanuel Desurvire, Senior Director of Photonic Technologies for Alcatel's optical networking activities received the 21st John Tyndall Award from OSA and IEEE, for his outstanding and pioneering contributions to the physical and theoretical understanding of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers. Read more.
• Christelle Bouchat, research engineer in Alcatel’s Research & Innovation Antwerp Center received the Circle of Excellence” Award from the“ DSL Forum for her outstanding contribution to DSL home networking standardization. Read more.
• Alcatel's Digital Home Care Solution wins IEC InfoVision Award. Alcatel DHCS is a unique, tightly integrated solution that facilitates and automates digital home operational processes including device installation, service activation, customer support interactions, and troubleshooting operations. Read more. 
• Alcatel 1850 honored with the InfoVision "Best New Product" award in the category "Metro Network Technologies and Services" Read more.   
• Bell Labs' Herbert Bertine named winner of the 2006 Edward Lohse Information Technology Medal by American National Standards Institute.
• Hock Ng, Bell Labs scientist, was named "Most Promising Young Researcher" by the Electrochemical Society and the North American Molecular Beam Epitaxy Board.
• The VitalSuite® Performance Management Software Wins 'World Class Award' From Network Testing Labs.

September 2006

• Alcatel wins Frost & Sullivan 2006 Market Leadership of the Year Award for triple play architecture vision in the European fixed telecoms market category. The award recognizes the company's achievement in defining the network architecture for triple play deployments. Read more
• Ashok Maliakal, Bell Labs scientist, named to MIT Technology Review Magazine's TR35, a list of world's top 35 young researchers.  
• Bell Labs takes another step towards making 100 Gigabit per second Ethernet-over-optical transmission a reality.
• At ECOC 2006, Research & Innovation remains the holder of the optical transmission world record for Capacity x Times x Distance product with 3.1 Petabit/s/km (OFC 2002)

August 2006

• Research & Innovation is the first to demonstrate live operation of an indoor WiMAX base station connected to a core network for worldwide IP network access via a WiMAX access controller (WAC) fully compliant with IEEE 802.16e-2005 standard.
• Research & Innovation premiered a WiMAX application in live operation for potential customers in the User Centric Broadband Innovation Center (3GRC) in Stuttgart, Germany. Read more.

July 2006

• Research & Innovation receives the TMC Labs 2006 Innovation Award from INTERNET TELEPHONY® Magazine. Read more.
• Alcatel receives Communications Solutions magazine's "Product of the Year" 2005 Award for “My Teamwork” application with video conferencing providing presence-aware multimedia conferencing and collaboration capabilities to businesses and employees. Read more
• Technology Marketing Corporation's TMC Labs named Alcatel's My Teamwork Land Mobile Radio Conferencing and Collaboration solution (LMRCC) as a 2006 Innovation Award winner from INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine. Read more.

June 2006

• Alcatel honored "2006 Next Generation Network (NGN) Infrastructure Vendor of the Year" award from Frost & Sullivan in the Asia Pacific region, thanks to leadership in NGN product innovation and breadth of these products and solutions. Read more.

May 2006

• Lucent Multimedia Access Platform wins International Engineering Consortium 2006 InfoVision Award in the best metro networking technology or service category.
• Alcatel's triple play applications family (Alcatel 5900 Communications TV, Alcatel 5900 Amigo TV and Alcatel 5900 My Own TV) receive IEC InfoVision Award at Broadband World Forum Asia 2006. Read more.
• The Alcatel OmniSwitch 9700, a full featured, high-performance 10-Gigabit Ethernet core switch, has been named as a 2006 Well-Connected Awards winner in the Network Infrastructure category by CMP Media LLC's Network Computing Magazine. Read more.

April 2006

• Alcatel’s Unlimited Mobile TV Solution selected by the French Agency for Industrial Innovation. Read more.
• Lucent's Base Station Router selected as the first place winner of a CTIA WIRELESS 2006 Wireless Emerging Technologies (E-tech) Award in the Most Innovative In-Building Solution category.

March 2006

• Alcatel is first to demonstrate a hardware front end, the basic building block of radio base-stations, able to operate simultaneously different radio standards (GSM, EDGE, UMTS) and multiple frequency bands. Read more.

February 2006

• Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc., an Alcatel company, receives Frost & Sullivan's 2005 Market Leadership Award for technology and market execution in the managed services market. Read more.
• Alcatel's "Live Sailing" wins 'Best Made for Mobile Sports Infotainment' category of 2006 GSM Association Awards. Read more.

January 2006

• Bell Labs receives Technical GRAMMY® award for its pioneering R&D contributions to sound recording and digital communications. Read more.
• Dr. Willard Boyle and Dr. George Smith, both former researchers at Bell Labs, are awarded Charles Stark Draper Prize for their invention and development of the charge-coupled device (CCD) by the National Academy of Engineering's (NAE). Read more.

December 2005

• The British Department of Trade and Industry ranks Alcatel 47th in the world top 1,000 companies by their R&D Investment and 11th within the world IT and hardware industry.
• 1850 Transport Service Switch (TSS) was honored with the "Best New Product" award by Light Reading. Read more.
• Rainer Muench, Senior System Architect in Alcatel’s Fixed Solution Division was elected Chairman of ETSI TISPAN, the major standardization body for NGN based on IMS.
• Alcatel deployed its 40 Gbit/s solution between 2 supercomputers in Germany, creating the fastest German data line in Germany and is in the top five ranks of supercomputer centers in the world. The project delivers a computing power of over twenty TeraFlops,

November 2005

• Dennis Ritchie, Bell Labs Researcher and Co-Inventor of Unix, Receives 2005 Industrial Research Institute Achievement Award.  Read more

October 2005

• Alcatel Receives INTERNET TELEPHONY Magazine's NEW "INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence" Award for 2005. Read more
• Vladimir Aksyuk, Bell Labs researcher listed as one of Technology Review magazine's TR35, an elite list of top innovators under the age of 35.  Read more
• Alcatel receives prestigious IEC InfoVision award for leadership in access network technologies and services. Alcatel was selected for the unique capabilities of its Intelligent Services Access Manager (ISAM) family of products. Read more

September 2005

• Lucent wins 2005 Next-Generation Mobile Communication Technology Vendor of the Year Award.  Read more.
• Alcatel carries out the world's first demonstration of IMS over WiMAX. Read more
• Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc., an Alcatel company, received the "Most Scalable, Distributed IP Contact Center" Award for its Genesys 7 contact center suite. Read more
• Lucent receives Start Magazine's Technology & Business Award.  Read more
• Emmanuel Desurvire, from Alcatel Chief Technology Office, received the 2005 IEEE/LEOS William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award for “his pioneering contributions to the physical and theoretical understanding of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers and their early device development."
• Bell Labs demonstrates the first transmission of 100Gb/s Ethernet-over-optical. Read more.
• Bell Labs and mPhase Technologies announce milestone in magnetometer development. Read more.

May 2005

• Lucent recognized by VARBusiness Magazine as one of North America's top information technology vendors.  

March 2005

• Christele Bouchat, Research engineer in Alcatel Antwerp  Research & Innovation Center. received the  "Key Contributor Award" from the DSL Forum in recognition of her outstanding efforts in the DSLHome group.
• Bell Labs' Physicist Rod Alferness receives 2005 IEEE Photonics Award at Optical Fiber Conference (OFC).  Read more
• Krishan K. Sabnani, Senior Vice President of Networking Research for Bell Labs, received the 2005 IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award. Read more

February 2005

• Alcatel receives two INTERNET TELEPHONY Magazine's "Product of the Year" Awards for 2004 -- Alcatel is recognized for its revolutionary Alcatel IP Touch application phone and for its eDial Instant Collaboration System™ (ICS) conferencing and collaboration product. Read more
• Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs and FCI Demonstrate 25gb/S data transmission over electrical backplane connectors. Read more.

January 2005

• Alcatel OmniTouch Unified Communication receives Frost & Sullivan's 2005 Product of the Year Award. Read more. 
• Alcatel received the 2004 Frost & Sullivan Market Leadership Award that recognizes Alcatel for Leadership in IP Communications in 2004 with its IP-PBX market leadership in Europe for both IP-enabled and converged solution line shipments.  Read more

December 2004

• Alcatel performs record optical transmission field trial with a point-to-point DWDM 170 Gbit/s per channel transmission of 1.28 Terabits per second over a 430 km standard (ITU-T G.652) single mode fiber link in France Telecom's network in the Marseille area. Read more

November 2004

• Lucent Technologies receives award for leadership in Next-Generation messaging business development strategy from Frost and Sullivan.  

September 2004

• Lucent Technologies Wins CDMA Industry Achievement Award for Network Technology Innovation.  Read more.
• MIT's Technology Review Magazine Names Bell Labs' Aref Chowdhury One Of Top 100 Young Innovators. Read more
• Alcatel OmniTouch Unified Communication receives TMC® Labs Innovation Award. Read more
• At ECOC 2004, Alcatel published the highest capacity ever transmitted over transoceanic distances: 4 Tb/s over 6200km at 40Gb/s channel rate.
• Alcatel OmniTouch Unified Communication receives TMC® Labs Innovation Award.

June 2004

• Genesys Receives 2003 SAP® Pinnacle Award.

May 2004

• Alcatel honored by the Asia Pacific Next Generation Infrastructure Vendor of the Year Award by Frost & Sullivan. Read more
• Lucent Technologies Software Wins 2004 CMP Media LLC's Network Computing Well-Connected Award for Network Security.  Read more

April 2004

• Lucent software awarded 2003 "Product of the Year" by Technology Marketing Corporation's Communications Solutions magazine.  Read more
• MIT's Technology Review magazine recognizes VoIP technology from Lucent as one of its five "Killer Patents". Read more

February 2004

• Alcatel & Be Tomorrow announce availability of first Java™ game on mobile with forty simultaneous players in a UMTS environment. Read more
• Genesys, an Alcatel owned company, awarded 2003 "Product of the Year" by Communications Solutions Magazine for its Genesys Express 3.0 product. Read more
• At OFC 2004,  Alcatel published a new world record in optical submarine transmission obtained in the lab with 6Tbit/s (149 WDM channels at 43Gb/s each) transmitted over a 6,120 km.

January 2004

• Genesys, an Alcatel subsidiary, is honored with the 2003 "Product of the Year" award from Customer Inter@ction Solutions magazine for its Voice Callback product. Read more

December 2003

• Sébastien Bigo, Alcatel Research & Innovation engineer for Optical Transmission Systems, received the 2003 General Ferrié Award that recognizes young scientists' contribution to electronics, radio-electricity and their applications. Read more

October 2003

• Alcatel wins Networking and Communications Award in leading partner publication VARBusiness. Read more
• Lucent included in R&D Scoreboard of 300 international companies.

June 2003

• Alcatel breaks world record in deep-sea cable repairs in the Pacific Ocean. Read more
• Lucent Technologies receives industry award for most promising network technology.  Read more

March 2003

• Bell Labs physicist Andrew Chraplyvy receives Tyndall Award from the Optical Society of America for pioneering research.  Read more
• Bell Labs receives its 30,000th patent Read more.

February 2003

• Alcatel OmniPCX 4400 won Product of the Year awards from Internet Telephony magazine and Communications Solutions magazine for the second year running. Read more

January 2003

• Alcatel Optronics' planar hybrid optical combiner wins the 2002 Photonics Circle of Excellence Award from Laurin Publishing. Read more
• Lucent Technologies' enhanced media server wins Internet Telephony's 2002 Product of the Year award. Read more.
• Alcatel OmniSwitch 7000, a Cutting-Edge Enterprise LAN Switch Ideal for IP Telephony and Mission-Critical Applications has been awarded "Product of the Year" By Internet Telephony Magazine. Read more

October 2002

• World Premiere: Alcatel Bridges Asia and Europe Through Live 3G/UMTS. Read more

October 2001

• World premiere: the orange UMTS mobile network deployed in Paris by Alcatel, conducts voice, data and video. Read more