Talk:Aricent

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Aricent is a pure-play product engineering service and software firm. It develops software, provides technology services, and co-creates products with leading networking, telecom, software, semiconductor, Internet, and industrial companies. Aricent is headquartered in Redwood City, California, with operations in 19 countries worldwide. Key investors are KKR & Co. L.P. and Sequoia Capital.

The company is believed to be one of the largest privately held companies in Silicon Valley. It employs more than 10,000 consultants, designers, and engineers at over 30 locations worldwide, focused exclusively on software-powered innovation for the connected world. Aricent was named one of the top 10 leaders in the fast-growing Global R&D Services marketing by Zinnov, a globalization and market expansion advisory firm.

The company invests in its own R&D by assigning more than 1,200 R&D engineers to creating software that enables clients to innovate in telecommunications design, manufacturing, and services.

History

Aricent is the successor to Hughes Software Systems, which was established in 1991 as a spin-off from Hughes Network Systems, itself a subsidiary to Hughes Electronics. Hughes Electronics was created in 1985 when General Motors acquired Hughes Aircraft and merged it with Delco Electronics. By 1988, Hughes was producing over half of the communications satellites build in the United States.

Although demand for satellites continued, Hughes Network Systems needed to address the latency issue for talking to satellites. To solve the problem, it established a specialized research and software development arm: Hughes Software Systems.

In 2004, Flextronics acquired a majority ownership stake in Hughes Software Systems. Two years later, in order to focus on its core electronics manufacturing services business, Flextronics sold its Flextronics Software Systems business (renamed Aricent) to KKR. Flextronics retained a 15% equity interest in the software development business until it sold the remaining stake in 2009.

In August 2004, Flextronics (now Aricent) had also taken an equity stake in what was then known as Frog Design. Frog became part of Aricent after the sale of Flextronic Software Systems to KKR in 2006.


 * 1991: Established as Hughes Software Systems (HSS) in New Delhi developing software solutions in the areas of VSAT-based networks for voice and data, cellular wireless telephony, packet switching, and multi-protocol routing for the six largest satellite networks deployed globally
 * 1992: Deployed the world’s first frame relay network
 * 1998: (no change)
 * 1999: (no change)
 * 2000: (no change)
 * 2001: (no change)
 * 2003: (no change)
 * 2004: (no change)
 * 2004: Acquired Frog design for approximately $25 million
 * 2005: (no change)
 * 2006: (no change)
 * 2006: Renamed Aricent (remove: "with headquarters in New Jersey")
 * 2007: Acquired Datalinx; launched service provider offerings
 * 2007: Co-created the world’s first Femtocell small cell mobile phone base station with IP Access; co-developed world’s first WiMax base station with Alvarion
 * 2008: Created world’s first in-flight WiFi broadband service with Aircell (now marketed as Gogo)
 * 2008: (no change)
 * 2009: (no change)
 * 2011: Opened engineering and development center for testing and wireless technologies in Vietnam
 * 2011: (no change)
 * 2012: Launched new software frameworks for software defined networking (SDN) and OpenFlow
 * 2013: Rebranded to Aricent

Segments and Industries (New section)

Aricent delivers software-powered innovation across four segments: communications equipment providers, communications service providers, semiconductors and embedded systems, and software and internet services. The company services a range of industries including:
 * Automotive
 * Industrial Automation
 * Networking and Telecom
 * Consumer Electronics
 * Home Automation
 * Energy and Utilities
 * Enterprise Software
 * Consumer Software

Products

(no change)

Clients

(remove ABB) (remove Force10) (remove Intel Mobile Communications) (remove Sumitomo Electric Industries) (remove Syniverse)

Standards organizations

(no change)

Board of directors

(no change)

SMDynamo (talk) 22:30, 6 May 2015 (UTC) SMDynamo

The company's own website is a primary source, and SlideShare is not a reliable source. I added information to the history section if and only if it was supported by a reliable source. I also removed the unsourced "Products" and "Clients" section, per WP:VERIFY and because Wikipedia is not a business directory to list everything they do.

Request edit on 7 May 2015
'''Attempting to update and add info that only the company may have access to... Please review below and implement if possible. Thank you!'''

Aricent is a pure-play product engineering service and software firm. It develops software, provides technology services, and co-creates products with leading networking, telecom, software, semiconductor, Internet, and industrial companies. Aricent is headquartered in Redwood City, California, with operations in 19 countries worldwide. Key investors are KKR & Co. L.P. and Sequoia Capital.

The company is believed to be one of the largest privately held companies in Silicon Valley. It employs more than 10,000 consultants, designers, and engineers at over 30 locations worldwide, focused exclusively on software-powered innovation for the connected world. Aricent was named one of the top 10 leaders in the fast-growing Global R&D Services marketing by Zinnov, a globalization and market expansion advisory firm.

The company invests in its own R&D by assigning more than 1,200 R&D engineers to creating software that enables clients to innovate in telecommunications design, manufacturing, and services.

History

Aricent is the successor to Hughes Software Systems, which was established in 1991 as a spin-off from Hughes Network Systems, itself a subsidiary to Hughes Electronics. Hughes Electronics was created in 1985 when General Motors acquired Hughes Aircraft and merged it with Delco Electronics. By 1988, Hughes was producing over half of the communications satellites build in the United States.

Although demand for satellites continued, Hughes Network Systems needed to address the latency issue for talking to satellites. To solve the problem, it established a specialized research and software development arm: Hughes Software Systems.

In 2004, Flextronics acquired a majority ownership stake in Hughes Software Systems. Two years later, in order to focus on its core electronics manufacturing services business, Flextronics sold its Flextronics Software Systems business (renamed Aricent) to KKR. Flextronics retained a 15% equity interest in the software development business until it sold the remaining stake in 2009.

In August 2004, Flextronics (now Aricent) had also taken an equity stake in what was then known as Frog Design. Frog became part of Aricent after the sale of Flextronic Software Systems to KKR in 2006.


 * 1991: Established as Hughes Software Systems (HSS) in New Delhi developing software solutions in the areas of VSAT-based networks for voice and data, cellular wireless telephony, packet switching, and multi-protocol routing for the six largest satellite networks deployed globally
 * 1992: Deployed the world’s first frame relay network
 * 1998: (no change)
 * 1999: (no change)
 * 2000: (no change)
 * 2001: (no change)
 * 2003: (no change)
 * 2004: (no change)
 * 2004: Acquired Frog design for approximately $25 million
 * 2005: (no change)
 * 2006: (no change)
 * 2006: Renamed Aricent (remove: "with headquarters in New Jersey")
 * 2007: Acquired Datalinx; launched service provider offerings
 * 2007: Co-created the world’s first Femtocell small cell mobile phone base station with IP Access; co-developed world’s first WiMax base station with Alvarion
 * 2008: Created world’s first in-flight WiFi broadband service with Aircell (now marketed as Gogo)
 * 2008: (no change)
 * 2009: (no change)
 * 2011: Opened engineering and development center for testing and wireless technologies in Vietnam
 * 2011: (no change)
 * 2012: Launched new software frameworks for software defined networking (SDN) and OpenFlow
 * 2013: Rebranded to Aricent

Segments and Industries (New section)

Aricent delivers software-powered innovation across four segments: communications equipment providers, communications service providers, semiconductors and embedded systems, and software and internet services. The company services a range of industries including:
 * Automotive
 * Industrial Automation
 * Networking and Telecom
 * Consumer Electronics
 * Home Automation
 * Energy and Utilities
 * Enterprise Software
 * Consumer Software

Products

(no change)

Clients

(remove ABB) (remove Force10) (remove Intel Mobile Communications) (remove Sumitomo Electric Industries) (remove Syniverse)

Standards organizations

(no change)

Board of directors

(no change)

SMDynamo (talk) 19:36, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

❌ If it doesn't have a reliable source, it won't be added ever by anyone. You cannot add information only known by the company, it must have a reliable source. Joseph2302 (talk) 19:42, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

Got it, Joseph2302. Thank you.

A few refinements for your consideration, please:

1. Change opening sentence from: Aricent is a pure-play product engineering service and software firm. to: Aricent is a pure-play product engineering services firm.

2. On the right-hand info bar, this is a more up-to-date listing of their products: R&D Services Product Engineering Network Engineering Cloud Engineering Mobility Engineering Internet of Things Engineering

3. Also on the right-hand info bar, their slogan listed is old. Current slogan is: “Engineering excellence. Sourced."

Cheers, SMDynamo (talk) 18:44, 11 May 2015 (UTC)


 * As requested at OTRS, I have made some minor updates; I have also simplifed some items in accord with o=current practice for firms such as this.  DGG ( talk ) 04:02, 29 May 2016 (UTC)

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Merger
Hello, the company Aricent has merged entirely with Altran. Should the pages be merged or left as they are? What is the best practice in the case? :)

See press release

Thank you in advance for your help.

Thevictorator95 (talk) 19:00, 23 april 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose merge, $2billion (former) company with 10,000 employs is probably warrants separate coverage. When a company is taken over, it isn't necessary to merge its Wikipedia page where there is sufficient notabity and history. In this case, there seems to be enough referenced content to keep them separate (WP:ORGCRIT). Klbrain (talk) 00:43, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Closing, given the uncontested objection and no support. Klbrain (talk) 17:02, 6 August 2021 (UTC)