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What is Aricent
current business focus?
When and why did Aricent get into products?
What products does Aricent sell?
What are some of Aricent latest/new products?
Do you have a Softswitch product?
What are some of the most successful products?
What are Aricent domain expertise areas?
What does 3G or UMTS mean for the future of Aricent?
What percentage of the business is international?
Describe your customer base for each segment
of your business?
What companies has Aricent acquired/merged with?
What is Aricent
current business focus?
Aricent believes in delivering value and continues
to focus on the communications vertical. We believe this segment
addresses a basic human need- to talk, exchange data and ideas
in whatever form. Going forward, Aricent would increase its portfolio
for communication equipment manufacturers and service providers.
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When and why did Aricent
get into products?
Aricent made an early entry into the
protocol stacks business in 1997 with the launch of its V5.2
access stack. Protocol
stacks are the building block software for communication
networks. Having gathered rich domain expertise in fixed,
wireless and IP networks through its software services to
its customers, and with the world communications market moving
towards open standards software, Aricent found an early entry
into the communications software products market.
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What products does Aricent
sell?
Today, Aricent is a leading global supplier of
convergent technologies for mobile, fixed and IP networks.
We have a broad range of communications- related products,
solutions and services to address the needs of the Next Generation
of communication networks. Our focus is on Convergence and
we have developed software products and sub-systems like softswitch,
media
gateway frameworks for voice
over packet networks. For high speed mobile data networks,
we have a portfolio that includes base station software, protocol
stacks and service nodes to enable traditional networks to
rapidly upgrade to the 2.5G/3G space.
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What are some of
Aricent latest/new products?
Visit our products
home and press
release sections for the latest in communications software
products from Aricent.
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Do you have a Softswitch
product?
Yes! we do. Find out more.
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What are some of the most
successful products?
The standards-compliant SIP
stack and sub-system, access stacks like V5.2
and its broadband version as well as traditional network backbone
software like SS7
stacks are some of the most successful products that Aricent
sells worldwide.
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What are Aricent domain
expertise areas?
Apart from deep knowledge and IPRs in the VOP
and the High Speed Mobile data space, Aricent has domain expertise
in the following areas:
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What does 3G
or UMTS mean for the future of Aricent?
Third generation mobile communications with
its "always on" anywhere and anytime access take
the paradigm of communications to the next level of fulfilment.
Services like mobile internet, location and presence based
services, would revolutionise the way we communicate and conduct
our business and life. As technology enablers for OEMs in
this domain, Aricent is very bullish about this revolution and
is geared to deliver key components and sub-systems to OEMs
who are implementing 2.5G/ 3G networks.
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What percentage of the
business is international?
Aricent targets all its communications software
products, solutions and professional services to leading communication
equipment manfacturers across the world. Consequently almost
98 percent of Aricent turnover comes from international sales.
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Describe your customer
base for each segment of your business?
All our customers are in the communications
vertical. Most are leading Fortune 500 names and equipment
manufacturers for large networks.
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What companies has Aricent
acquired/merged with?
Aricent has not acquired or merged with any company
till now. Aricent has plans to acquire companies based on the
following criteria- companies which have product lines that
complement its own portfolio, or companies which increase
its market reach or companies which champion a new idea or
technology and would benefit from funding and branding from
Aricent.
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Last updated :
December 19, 2005
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