Who killed Lucent?

Now everyone at the world has been knowing Lucent's acquisition by Alcatel, or anyway, you can say it a merge. Who turned the telecom vendor giant into a prey? Who is the root cause killer of Lucent? Of course, not Alcatel.

When I graduated from PKU and joined China Telecom to start my job career at 1997, Lucent, not long time after the spin-off from AT&T, is the superstar of the stock market and one of the top telecom vendors in the world, full of respects and honors from the industry, along with the upsoaring stock price. Their employees are very proud of their titles and name cards. The red circle logo was the image of success and high stability, reliability. At that time Cisco was merely a challenger with something called "IP" technologies. One of my friends who was going to do an interview at Cisco China offices told me: "I was going to interview to a small company, named Cisco…".