Facts at a Glance
History
Alcatel-Lucent's vision is to enrich people's lives by transforming the way the world communicates. Born with an unparalleled ability to offer end-to-end communications solutions to our customers, we are focused on enhancing client relationships and enriching the lives of people through communications. Expert, driven, intuitive, innovative, Alcatel-Lucent is the first truly global communications solutions provider, with the most complete end-to-end portfolio of solutions and services in the industry.
In 2008, Alcatel-Lucent acquired Motive Inc., a leading provider of digital life management solutions for fixed and mobile broadband services. The organization now forms a product division within in the Application Software Group of Alcatel-Lucent. Motive’s solutions portfolio helps telco, wireless, cable and satellite operators wolrdwide deliver and manage a new generation of IP-based services that seamlessly integrate voice, video and data into a single connected experience for customers at-home or on the go.
Customers
Over one hundred customers of the world’s leading communications providers use Motive software, including AT&T, Bell Canada, BT, Deutsche Telekom, EMOBILE Ltd., HUGHES, SingTel, Softbank BB, Swisscom, Telecom Italia, Telefonica Brazil, and Verizon. As a result, Motive products are used by more than eighty-five percent of DSL subscribers in North America, and almost seventy percent of DSL subscribers in Western Europe. Motive is the only vendor to supply digital life management solutions to cable, DSL, mobile and satellite operators worldwide.
Alliances
Motive’s partners represent the communications industry’s leading network infrastructure, application, customer premises equipment (CPE) and handset vendors, including Actiontec, Airvana, Broadcom, Conexant, Motorola, NETGEAR, Nortel, Thomson, Ubiquisys, Westell, ZTE and ZyXEL. Motive is also an active participant in many industry organizations such as Broadband Forum and Open Mobile Alliance.
Solutions
Motive’s products are used by communications providers to automate and remotely manage common tasks such as activation, configuration, upgrades and customer support across multiple services, networks and devices. Motive solutions include High-Speed Internet, Home Networking, IPTV Service Assurance and Mobile Service Management.
Key Milestones
| May 1997 | Company founded | |
| June 1997 | Series A funding | |
| July 1998 | Motive 1.0, first commercially available product | |
| December 1998 | First major customer, Hewlett-Packard | |
| January 2000 | Ventix Systems, Inc. acquired | |
| June 2000 | European operations established | |
| September 2000 | Software deployed on 12 million endpoints | |
| November 2000 | First of eight technology patents received | |
| October 2001 | Asia-Pacific operations established | |
| November 2001 | Question Technologies, Inc. acquired | |
| January 2003 | BroadJump, Inc. acquired | |
| September 2003 | Software deployed on 30 million endpoints | |
| December 2003 | Registration statement filed for initial public offering | |
| June 2004 | Initial public offering | |
| July 2005 | Software deployed on 45 million endpoints | |
| November 2005 | Motive's India Development Center opened | |
| January 2006 | Only broadband software company to serve DSL, cable and satellite markets | |
| February 2006 | Alfred Mockett named chairman and CEO | |
| December 2006 | Motive marks strategic triple-play interoperability milestone | |
| December 2006 | Software deployed on 60 million endpoints | |
| February 2007 | Motive achieves million-device milestone for home device manager | |
| March 2007 | Motive announces expansion into mobile service management | |
| December 2007 | Motive achieves 5 million-device milestone for home device manager | |
| December 2007 | Motive signs 40th HDM customer | |
| January 2008 | Motive rolls out industry's first Femtocell service management solution | |
| June 2008 | Motive receives solution of year award for mobile service management | |
| August 2008 | Motive introduces first WiMAX service management solutions that supports both TR-069 & OMA standards | |
| October 2008 | Motive achieves ten million devices milestone for home device manager | |
| October 2008 | Alcatel-Lucent acquires Motive, Inc |
