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By Shankar P.
The car is a product of a multi-company NG Connect Program, of which Alcatel-Lucent is a member.
“In essence, Alcatel-Lucent provides the ‘connected’ in the LTE Connected Car concept vehicle,” the company said in a statement. It described the concept vehicle as a virtual “smartphone on wheels,” and said its offerings include combining a broadband radio link to bring cloud-based multimedia services into the car and a Wi-Fi environment.
NG Connect is a multi-industry collaboration among network, device, application and content suppliers, Alcatel-Lucent said. A representative couldn’t immediately detail the precise contribution of the company’s researchers at its Bell Laboratories, in the Murray Hill section of New Providence.