# Alcatel-Lucent Franco-American telecommunications equipment company formed by the 2006 merger of [[wiki/Alcatel|Alcatel]] and [[wiki/Lucent Technologies|Lucent Technologies]]. [[wiki/Nokia|Nokia]] acquired Alcatel-Lucent in 2016, bringing [[wiki/Bell Labs|Bell Labs]] under Finnish corporate ownership as [[wiki/Nokia Bell Labs|Nokia Bell Labs]]. Referenced in [[articles/Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power|Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power]].