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Bell Labs, celebrating more than three-quarters of a century of innovation, is the most famous research and development organization in the world. Bell Labs' mission to Lucent Technologies is two-fold:
Provide fundamental research in scientific fields important to communications, and provide innovations that will lead to new communications products and services, and
Develop leading edge products and services that will keep Lucent at the forefront of communications.
Bell Labs research and development community consists of 16,000 employees in 16 countries.