Lucent buys Ascend for $20 billion

the drenalizer writes "Here is an interesting one for the ISP and telco industries. CNN has an article on this story. Reaction so far seems that ISP's are optimistic about the deal and think that Lucent can benefit from getting Ascend's SOHO product line and some of the mid range products that they offer (and maybe Ascend customers will appreciate more clueful tech support according to some). "