The current 3SP Technologies took its roots from a French research laboratory dedicated to photonics and created in the 1980’s, which attracted the attention of the Alcatel group as early as 1991 to become Alcatel Optronics SA in 1994, a fully-owned subsidiary of the Alcatel group. Listed on the stock exchange market in 2000, Alcatel Optronics enjoyed a phenomenal growth from 1999 to 2001, correlated with the fast expansion of the Internet. As to the entire telecom market, its growth was affected by the bursting of the Internet bubble at the end of 2001.
