Our success is measured by that of our customers. The case studies listed below detail the value we have brought to our customers' table.

Aricent's association with NEC is a perfect case-specification to bring out our strategic outsourcing relationship. Aricent is a strategic partner to make NEC's product lines the most competitive in the market. Throughout its strategic relationship with NEC, Aricent has always endeavored to deliver true customer value at each step by enabling future-friendly communications through world-class software solutions.

Aricent emerged as the right choice with its unparalleled technical proficiency, domain expertise, project management abilities and quality consciousness. Furthermore, Aricent's ability to proactively understand NEC's requirements and offer winning edge solutions has enabled us to constantly deliver value to NEC, creating a limitless source of futuristic opportunities.

Aricent has set up a state-of-the-art offshore development center (ODC) with a committed resource-pool of software engineers for evaluating new business areas in line with emerging technology trends. To understand how Aricent with its proven and result-oriented processes helped alleviate operational cost pressures and at the same time provide necessary competitive edge to help NEC emerge as a dominant player in telecom-landscape. To find out more about our alliance, please click here....

Our client, a high tech. startup based on the East Coast wanted to provide advanced integrated voice and data based services to a customer base that has traditionally sourced these two services from independent sources. From evolving quality processes to architecting the final product, Aricent worked with the client, building trust at every step. Leveraging its expertise in Next Generation Switching, a 'ready-resource backup' and proficiency in providing product-consulting services, Aricent was able to take complete technology and product evolution responsibilities. Aricent was entrusted with the core task of evolving the new proprietary switching fabric firmware; multi-service switch and embedded application software.

Aricent was successful in instilling faith in customer's perception of Aricent's ability to handle complex telecommunication projects, technically and from project-management perspective, so much so that the relationship grew multifold. Aricent set-up an offshore development center for the client with state-of-the-art infrastructure and followed stringent security initiatives to protect clients' IPR. Aricent came across as a vendor who not only fulfilled the short-term operational goals but also partnered with the organization for realizing their long-term business objectives. To know more about this strategic outsourcing relationship, Find out more...

Our client, a leading provider of broadband satellite network solutions for corporate and individual consumers was looking for a software solution to implement "Mobile Satellite Communication Systems".
Aricent was chosen to analyze, develop and deploy a robust and scalable software mobile communication solution.

The challenges in this task were multifold. The assignment required an overall system characterization, system implementation and the simulation, testing and integration of various protocol layers of modern satellite communication systems.

Aricent accepted the challenge of foraying into a new technology domain, thus exhibiting its expertise on various protocol layers of modern satellite communication systems.

The project involved a peak-team of 90 engineers with a total of 1.4 million lines of code generated. Aricent delivered excellent on-time solution for Satellite Base Station Software development, GSM Network Management Solution and Multi-mode Handset Software.

Aricent not only earned laurels for this project but was also rewarded by being assigned more projects by the client.

Our solution has enabled the client not only to meet its immediate requirements, but also positioned the company to look at new lines of business.

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Development of Complete Routing Functionality for a Global North American Player

A North American Data Communication company was aiming at adding complete routing functionality to an existing CSU/DSU box. The client wanted to capture a share of the nascent market from a major competitor. Bagging the project was a challenge for Aricent as the competitor had an edge in the market with an established brand name. Therefore, product differentiation was vital for our client.

Aricent took up the challenge by providing complete IP Routing functionality, CLI and QoS Routing expertise. Restructuring of the core buffer management scheme of the product improved performance figures by 15-20 times.

Aricent earned laurels for its effort in proving its expertise in technologies like IP Routing Protocols (RIP, OSPF, BGP), IP Applications (DHCP, DNS, FTP, Telnet etc.), Layer 2 Technologies and Drivers (FR, Ethernet), Buffer Management, Third Party tools for testing and performance evaluation. This project involved an effort of approximately 100 person months.

Aricent helped the customer with its proven Router Software Development expertise and that went a long way in establishing a very long-term business relationship with the customer. The product is to be deployed in the field by early 2002.

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Routing and Bridging Solution for a European Telecom giant

A European telecom organization wanted to cater to the SoHo (Small Office Home Office) market by providing an innovative product that could act as a Wireless Bridge cum Router.

Aricent was thus engaged to play a key role in conceptualizing the software architecture and helped the client by developing a performance product that satisfied a time-to-market need. The assignment also aided Aricent in proving its capability in bridging and routing traffic between IEEE-802.3 Ethernet and IEEE-802.11 Wireless Interface.

The product proved to be a major success with its wireless access and access-point functionality. The project a 60 person-month effort, involved working on advanced technology domains, Device Drivers (Ethernet & Wireless Ethernet), Generic 802.X Link Layer Services, Transparent Bridging, Filtering and ARP functionality and Integration with Layer-3 INET services and Routing Protocols

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Network Management Solution for a U.S based company

A USA based company required a wireless access network providing broadband wireless Internet access and telephony services to residential, SoHo, small and medium business customers. Leveraging the full benefits of the new Wireless technology Aricent developed an NM solution enabling the client to leverage the pioneering MIMO-OFDM technology, which uses multiple antennas to both transmit and receive radio signals. MIMO-OFDM is the only technology that allows service providers to deploy a Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) system that has truly Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) functionality.

Aricent not only ensured a smooth-functioning of this 160 plus person-months project but also delivered the System Manager and Network Manager solutions in record time.

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Next Generation Switching Solutions for a US tech company

Our client is a tech company based in East Coast, USA. The client was facing problems in providing advanced integrated voice and data based services to a customer base that has traditionally sourced these two services from independent sources.

Aricent's prime responsibility was to evolve the new proprietary switching fabric firmware, multi-service switch and embedded application software.

Leveraging its expertise in Next Generation Switching, a 'ready-resource backup' and proficiency in providing product-consulting services, Aricent was able to take complete technology and product evolution responsibilities. Aricent set-up a dedicated development facility for the client with state-of-art infrastructure and followed stringent security initiatives to protect the clients' IPRs.
Aricent was involved with the client's engineering team right from the conception phase. Separate teams were set up to handle different phases of the project. 'Firmware down-up' approach was used during the project.

Aricent was successful in handling this complex telecommunication project, both from the management as well as technical perspective.

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Testing Base Sub-System for a Leading Wireless Company in US

A Leading Wireless Company based in the US was implementing the Base Station Sub-System for a Satellite based GSM system. The client was looking for a vendor who would undertake the testing of complex Air Interface Specifications and Ground Sub System.

A Leading Wireless Company based in the US was implementing the Base Station Sub-System for a Satellite based GSM system. The client was looking for a vendor who would undertake the testing of complex Air Interface Specifications and Ground Sub System.

The client outsourced this large-testing assignment to Aricent. Leveraging its expertise in wireless technologies, Aricent was able to take the complete responsibility for System Verification Testing, Release Testing and Customer Witnessed Testing.

An expert team in the field of wireless domain, who were well versed with a broad range of multi-vendor hardware, operating system, language, database, networking and a gamut of communication-protocols was set up to handle the project. Aricent was successful in meeting all the schedules as defined by the client and not only reported many critical and major problems during release testing, but also surmounted the client's expectations by contributing in the inter-operability testing.

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The client a leading Broadband Satellite communication player was using a third-party solution and was faced with a limited number of channels. Every additional channel involved an additional licensing fee.

Aricent was chosen to develop software for PES 5000TM, a low cost VSAT (Very Small Aperture Terminal) supporting two-way data communications with an ISBN Hub. With Aricent's G3 fax solutions, HNS was able to cut its costs and thereby also improve its efficiency.

Aricent's integrated voice and fax solutions surpassed all product-offerings from other solution providers, giving our clients additional flexibility. Aricent's G3 fax solutions could also be used as a complete PC based fax machine.

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