Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (ALE) last week held the 2019 edition of its Connex analyst conference, playing off the company’s 100-year anniversary — for in 1919, inventor Aaron Weil created the téléphone privé, or private telephone, and kicked off the Alcatel era. Since then, the company has been on a long, bumpy ride filled with ups and downs. Given ALE took the time to tout its history, I thought it was worth taking a quick look back to see how it got from there to where it is today.
