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NEWS IN A NUTSHELL			LUCENT HERITAGE
	PRC wins the Shingo		In 1980, Bell Labs developed a microelectronic range extension system that lowered by 25 percent the cost of linking suburban business and residential customers to switching offices.
	e-Business solutions
	An on-line presence
	Reaching the limit
	Prestigious prize
	Global Days of Caring

LUCENT ANNOUNCES

PRC WINS THE SHINGO
Lucent's wireless product design and production facility in Mount Olive, N.J., was named one of eight recipients of the 2000 Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing. The prestigious award is given annually to select companies that have demonstrated outstanding achievements in manufacturing processes, quality enhancements, productivity improvement and customer satisfaction. The Mount Olive facility designs, develops and manufactures network equipment for use by mobile communications companies worldwide.

E-BUSINESS SOLUTIONS
Sema Group and the new Enterprise Networks Group being spun off from Lucent announced a worldwide strategic alliance to supply eBusiness solutions to enterprises in the telecommunications industry, such as service providers and network operators. The alliance brings together the product portfolios of both companies to create comprehensive solutions for businesses.

AN ON-LINE PRESENCE
Just over half (54 percent) of small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the United Kingdom are encouraged by the tax incentives announced in the Chancellor's latest budget to set up an on-line presence, according to a poll published by the new Enterprise Networks Group of Lucent. The research carried out on behalf of Lucent by NOP also reveals that 37 percent of SMBs have a company Web site and 10 percent are currently conducting eCommerce. The survey also shows that the majority of the SMB sector (62 percent) recognize that conducting eBusiness is essential in today's environment.

REACHING THE LIMIT
Silicon chips may reach their performance limits several years later than previous predictions, according to researchers at Lucent's Bell Labs. A limiting factor in producing increasingly smaller and faster silicon-based transistors is the transistor's insulating layer. Made of silicon dioxide, the insulating layer on today's chips averages 12 atoms thick. While other research groups have said that nine to 10 atoms would be the thinnest insulating layer for reliable, practical silicon chips, Ashraful Alam and his Bell Labs colleagues have shown that the intrinsic reliability limit is fewer than six atoms. As a result, the Bell Labs researchers concluded that the "doomsday" scenario for the conventional silicon chip might be delayed until after 2005.

[To view complete text of the above releases, go to http://www.lucent.com/press/monthIndex.html.]

LUCENT IN THE NEWS

OPTICAL WIN
Lucent signed a two-year deal to supply equipment for the worldwide fiber-optic communications network being built by Global Crossing. Global Crossing will become the first carrier to deploy Lucent's new high-speed, all-optical switch, the WaveStar LambdaRouter, as well as other new and existing products from Lucent's line. Global Crossing will also be the first carrier to test Lucent's new WaveStar OLS 800G, a 320-channel fiber-optic system that uses multiple colors of light to transmit up to the equivalent of 400 feature-length films per second. [Star-Ledger (N.J.), 4/18] TOP 50 COMPANIES AMONG MBAs -- [Lucent was ranked No. 17, up from No. 24 the previous year, on Fortune's list of The Top 50 Companies Among Master's in Business Administration (MBAs) students.] In an annual survey of employers favored by MBAs, Internet companies vaulted into the top 50, pushing down old- guard firms like Morgan Stanley and Disney. When asked what kind of company they wanted to work for, 37 percent of business school students said they want job offers from big, fat global companies -- and Ford and American Express jumped into the top 50 to prove it. But of the 2,700 students surveyed, 18 percent said they wanted to work for a startup after graduation. [Fortune, 4/17]

OPTICAL DEVELOPMENTS
In the last 75 years, talent from around the world has flocked to Bell Labs. "When I started 30 years ago, we were engaged in intellectual pursuits," recalled Alastair Glass, who has since become the Director of the Photonic Research Lab. Today, all the developments in optical networks come from Photonics Research. This department currently is piling record upon record. One of the leading discoveries to come from Glass's laboratory is dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM). The latest Nobel Prize winner from Bell Labs is Horst Stormer, who received the prize for physics two years ago. David Bishop is currently focused on the development of an optical switch capable of processing flows of data by means of small microscopic mirrors on a silicon wafer, without conversion of light into electricity. Bishop is working on the WaveStar LambdaRouter, which will be marketed late this year and will be capable of switching 128 optical channels. [VNU Business Online (Belgium), 4/4]

SHRINKING TRANSISTORS
The semiconductor industry may be able to shrink transistor feature sizes for at least five more years without hitting a key technical barrier. A team of Bell Labs researchers has demonstrated that the intrinsic reliability limits of silicon-dioxide insulators in transistors is fewer than six atoms thick -- or 1.5 nanometers. Other research groups have found the limit to be nine to 10 atoms thick. "Achieving such thin dimensions with the required intrinsic reliability was previously thought to be impossible," said Ashraful Alam, a member of the research team discovering the new limits to scaling transistor silicon-dioxide insulators. Consequently, Bell Labs researchers concluded that the "doomsday" scenario or "brick wall" for the conventional silicon integrated circuits might be delayed until after 2005, instead of the next couple of years. "These results will help us direct our process development efforts to continue advancing integrated circuit performance for demanding wireless and networking applications," said Gregg Higashi, a technical manager at Lucent's Microelectronics Group. [Semiconductor Business News, 4/17]

TUESDAY'S FEATURE

PRESTIGIOUS PRIZE
The Wireless Networks Group's Product Realization Center (PRC) at Mount Olive, N.J., has added another trophy to its crammed case, and it's a big one -- the prestigious Shingo Prize for the year 2000, awarded for excellence in manufacturing that impacts customer satisfaction. Together with the Deming and the Baldrige, it's one-third of manufacturing's "triple crown."

The prize recognizes Mount Olive's continuous quest for self- improvement, with record results. Cycle times, inventory and quality at the PRC have become internal benchmarks throughout Lucent. Production has risen 50 fold. And the team has wrung out 58 percent of the cost of the flagship CDMA PCS minicell wireless base station in its first four years of production.

Employees celebrated their achievements yesterday at the PRC with Bill Wiberg, president of AMPS/PCS, Ed Hines, Wireless Provisioning, Engineering and Development vice president, and Lynn Mercer, Manufacturing and Global Provisioning vice president.

Wiberg noted that it had taken 14 months to build the first 1,000 minicells, and just four months to build the first 1,000 Flexent(r) modcells, the next product introduction, with more capacity than minicells. The prize is a testiment to what employees have accomplished, he said. Hines agreed, noting that he believed employees were up for the challenges of the future, presented by high growth projections for wireless around the world.

In its six years, the Mount Olive PRC has been awarded three ISO certifications and two Quality New Jersey awards, the most recent one the gold Governor's Award presented by New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman. "We thought we'd try for the Shingo in 2001, and applied this year just to get feedback so we could improve ourselves," Mercer said. Surprised to learn the PRC's application had won them a site visit, Mercer told award officials, "Bring it on," even though the center was in the midst of filling customer orders, ramping new products and transferring other products to Campinas, Brazil, and Shanghai, China.

Examiners were impressed with employees' strong commitment to customers and process improvements. "We were surprised and delighted to learn we'd won," Mercer said. "I'm very proud of our employees and what they've accomplished."

The Shingo Prize is named for Japan's Dr. Shigeo Shingo, who devised just-in-time manufacturing and other manufacturing improvement principles. It's open to manufacturers in the United States, Canada and Mexico, and to researchers throughout the world. The prize will be presented to Lucent and seven other winners in May. -- by Suzanne Sidhu

FYI

GLOBAL DAYS OF CARING
Lucent employees around the world are gearing up for the first Global Days of Caring weekend of the year. Here's what some of your Lucent colleagues will be doing on April 29 and 30.

• Taiwan -- A team of employees at each of the four Lucent locations in Taiwan will select an ancient building, such as a temple, to clean and help restore its position of culture and elegance. These buildings have been designated by the government as protected due to their cultural value. Contact: Ingrid Hung at 886-2-2514-5068 (ihung@tw.lucent.com)

• Arizona -- Volunteers in Tucson have planned a zoo outing for students from the Howenstein School, a facility for mentally and physically challenged children and young adults. This trip is a reward for the children who volunteer at World Cares, a non-profit agency in Tucson that provides World Relief, and TOOLS-4-SCHOOLS, an organization that provides school supplies for underprivileged children from Head Start through junior high. Contact: Catherine Carter at 1-800-228-4894, ext. 58098

• New Jersey -- Employees are invited to help the Morris Land Conservancy refurbish Historic Craftsman Farms, located in Parsippany-Troy Hills. Volunteers will help groom the garden, clear natural ravines, remove non-native plants and restore pond banks. Children age/s seven years and over are invited. Contact: Betty Torell at bettytorell@lucent.com or call 1-908-559-6406.

INDUSTRY WATCH

NORTEL SIGNS MOU WITH STARONE
Nortel received a memorandum of understanding from Germany's StarOne to provide infrastructure and applications solutions for broadband services valued at $224 million. [WSJ, 4/17]

JUNIPER CHIP THWARTS HACKER ATTACKS
Juniper Networks said a new chip for its Internet-switching equipment will detect and deter hacker attacks on the Web. The chip could be helpful in preventing and responding to "denial of service" attacks. [WSJ, 4/18]

TEXAS INSTRUMENT EARNINGS
Texas Instruments first-quarter profit soared 67 percent as sales of its digital signal processors (DSP) used in wireless phones and other devices rose sharply. Sales of DSPs grew 49 percent in the wireless-phone category. Sales to general users grew 71 percent. However, sales of DSPs for use in hard drives declined. [WSJ, 4/18]

SPEAK UP

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