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 They are now part of the naming confusion surrounding AT&T/Lucent/Agere/Avaya. 
 
-From what I can tell, originally Agere was a division of Lucent, which was a division of AT&T. In 1991, AT&T assimilated a company called NCR (Which was where the 'father of Wifi') 
+From what I can tell, originally Agere was a division of Lucent, which was a division of AT&T. In 1991, AT&T assimilated a company called NCR (Which was where the 'father of Wifi'). NCR's Wifi guys became a division of Lucent when AT&T gave Lucent the flick in 1996, and when Lucent got rid of Agere in 2000, NCR was shunted into this divison. 
 
-> To be continued (when I get home) 
+Agere lost it's wireless focus when it sold Orinoco to another well known, Proxim, in 2002. Since then they seem to have gone downhill in a big way. 
+> Can someone check all that? Sure as hell confuses me - and what does it have to do with bell labs anyway?! 
 
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