Alcatel

Alcatel SA was a French industrial conglomerate active between 1963 and 2006. It has roots to Compagnie Générale d’Electricité (CGE), a conglomerate founded in 1898 as an early state owned cable and telephone equipment company that later expanded into construction, shipbuilding and energy. In telecommunications, Alcatel was a major supplier of digital telephone switches, terrestrial and submarine transmission cables, satellite equipment, cellular infrastructure, DSL access equipment and others. thumb|An Alcatel mail sorting machine Alcatel (originally short for ''Société Alsacienne de Construc

SpeedTouch (originally Speed Touch) is a discontinued product line of customer-premises equipment that was initially produced by Alcatel and later by Thomson Multimedia. It includes ADSL and ADSL2+ modems, residential gateways, wireless access equipment, VoIP handsets and SHDSL equipment for interconnections.