# Lucent Technologies American telecommunications equipment company spun off from [[wiki/AT&T|AT&T]] in 1996, carrying [[wiki/Bell Labs|Bell Labs]] with it. Lucent shed [[wiki/Avaya|Avaya]] (enterprise communications, 2000) and [[wiki/Agere Systems|Agere Systems]] (semiconductors, 2002), then merged with [[wiki/Alcatel|Alcatel]] in 2006 to form [[wiki/Alcatel-Lucent|Alcatel-Lucent]], which [[wiki/Nokia|Nokia]] acquired in 2016. The Lucent chain represents one of the primary corporate succession threads from Bell Labs, traced in [[articles/Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power|Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power]].