Ericsson to Acquire Telcordia

Many readers will be too young to remember it, but Telcordia once was called "Bellcore," way back in the days after the breakup of the AT&T system, and designed to provide a similar function for the Regional Bell Operating Companies that Bell Laboratories traditionally had played for Western Electric and the old AT&T.

That function had changed over the years, of course. Bellcore was privatized in 1996, when it was sold to SAIC.