Lucent Technologies Microelectronics Group (Berkeley Heights, PA) has opened a European optical

Nov. 1, 1998

Lucent Technologies` Microelectronics Group (Berkeley Heights, PA) has opened a European optical amplifier design center in Ascot, UK. The facility is necessary to meet the challenges posed by the worldwide acceptance of dense wavelength-division multiplexing technology, says the company. According to the new head of the center, Conrad Burke, the center brings Lucent closer to its European, Middle Eastern, and Asian customers and will speed time-to-market for equipment meeting these customers` needs. He expects the center will have between 15 and 20 people on staff by 2000.

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