Thursday, 9 October 2008

Alcatel-Lucent Completes Motive Acquisition

Alcatel-Lucent Wednesday said it has successfully completed the acquisition
of Motive, Inc, solidifying an existing three-year relationship between the two companies, which had jointly developed and sold remote management software solutions for automating the deployment, configuration and support of advanced home networking devices called residential gateways (RGs).

"With the combination of Motive's service management software and Alcatel-Lucent's world-class fixed and wireless broadband networking infrastructure, service providers can now rely on a single solution to deliver a seamless, consistent, converged customer experience across a range of services, networks and devices, both fixed and mobile," said Luis Martinez Amago, President of Alcatel-Lucent's fixed access activities.

"Motive is enriching Alcatel-Lucent's portfolio with an expanded application suite that is ideally suited to the challenge of enhancing consumers 'digital life' by delivering video and other multimedia content where they live, work and play."