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Company type | Private |
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Industry | Communications, Software Engineering |
Founded | 1991 (as Hughes Software Systems) |
Headquarters | East Brunswick, NJ, USA |
Key people | Sudip Nandy: CEO Aricent Group Mick Lopez: Chief Financial Officer C.P. Murali:Executive Vice President and General Manager, Product Engineering Services Patrick Joggerst:Executive Vice President and General Manager, Carrier Services and Solutions Doreen Lorenzo:President, frog, and Executive Vice President and General Manager Raj Datt:Senior Vice President, Global Operations and Chief Information Officer Theodore Forbath:Vice President, Innovation Strategy Mark Gauger:Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales Amitabh Hajela:Vice President and Global Head of Human Resources Tim Leberecht:Chief Marketing Officer Shawn Soderberg:Senior Vice President, Legal, and General Counsel |
Products | Design Services, R&D Services, Communications software, Networking software, Data Communications software, Multimedia software, Mobile software, Billing Mediation Software |
Number of employees | 10,000+ [1] |
Website | www.aricent.com |
Aricent Group is a global innovation[clarification needed] and technology services company. The company develops software and provides technology services to application, infrastructure, and service providers with operations in 19 countries worldwide.
The company claims to be one of the largest privately held companies in Silicon Valley, with 800 customers, and employs more than 10,000 consultants, designers, and engineers at 36 locations worldwide.[2] The company licenses its own software products for use in telecommunications design, manufacturing, and service with 40+ years' design experience through frog, including products for Apple, Disney, GE, HP, Intel, Sony, and many other Fortune 500 brands. Aricent has been ranked as 17th in Top 20 IT services exports firms in India in terms of total revenue in 24th annual survey conducted by Dataquest, CyberMedia group journal in July 2010.[3] Aricent Technologies is ranked #19 in India IT companies and overall #451 in Fortune India 500 list in 2011.[4]
Aricent Group is the successor to Hughes Software Systems, which was established in 1991, as well as Flextronics Software Systems, which was created in 2004 after the parent company's acquisition. In 2006, Flextronics sold 85% company to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR)[5] and Sequoia Capital.[6] Flextronics retained 15% ownership.[7]
Frog, acquired by Flextronics in 2004, is a company of the Aricent Group.
Aricent Group licenses more than 125 software frameworks to equipment manufacturers, device manufacturers and service providers, including:
Aricent Group lists large telecommunications firms, while others come from consumer electronics, financial services, energy, healthcare, data equipment manufacturers, device makers, and service providers as clients, including: Airtel, Alcatel-Lucent, Alltel, Cisco Systems, Comverse, Ericsson, Hughes Network Systems, Inmarsat, Juniper Networks, LG Electronics, Motorola, NEC, Newport Networks Limited, Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks, Panasonic, Pantech, Polycom, Samsung, Siemens, Sony Ericsson, Tellabs, Texas Instruments, Virgin Mobile, Vodafone, Tekelec, Wireless and Convergence, Intel, MTV, HP, Disney.
Aricent Group is a contributing member of standards bodies in the communications industry, including:
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