AFTER Alcatel SA merged with Lucent Technologies Inc two years ago, almost the last thing the new company could afford to worry about was balancing the interests of its French and American parts.

自从两年前阿尔卡特和朗讯公司合并之后，这家合并的公司最费劲的一件事就是平衡法国和美国两方的利益。

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Companies like Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, Nortel Networks, Alcatel, and Lucent Technologies, are taking measures to reduce costs in order to adapt to the change of market environment.

诺基亚、爱立信、摩托罗拉、北电网络、阿尔卡特和朗讯科技等公司采取各种措施降低成本，以适应市场环境的调整。

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In the early 2000s, scores of investors lured by the advice of financial analysts and brokers invested in high tech stocks like Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ), JDS Uniphase, Ciena Corporation (NASDAQ:CIEN), EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), and Lucent Technologies now Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE:ALU) trading near triple digits back then and in the middle-teens or single-digits ten years later, not to mention Nortel Networks, and Global Crossing, which filed for bankruptcy.

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By failing to focus on the end customer, Cisco has been losing market share to Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR), Alcatel-Lucent (nYSE:ALU), and Huawei Technologies.

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