International Network Services Inc. (INS) was a network architecture services provider based in Mountain View, California. Previously closely associated with

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, it was acquired by the former

Lucent Lucent Technologies, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications equipment company headquartered in Murray Hill, New Jersey. It was established on September 30, 1996, through the divestiture of the former AT&T Technologies business u ...

in 1999 for $3.7bn. Following the collapse of the

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, Lucent sold the unit back to employees and investors for an undisclosed sum. Then in 2007, INS was acquired by

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for £133 MM (now part of ''BT Advise'' Professional Services of BT (global services) based out of the US.

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