About Us
Co-creating the world’s most innovative communications products and
services.
Aricent is a global innovation, technology and services company focused
exclusively on communications. Aricent is a strategic supplier to the world's
leading application, infrastructure and service providers, with operations in 19
countries worldwide.
Company Highlights
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One of the largest privately-held companies in Silicon Valley;
- 550+ customers;
- 8,000+ employees, 33 offices worldwide;
- Product portfolio of more than 125 licensable products;
- Investors include KKR, Sequoia Capital, The Family Office and The Canadian
Pension Plan Investment Board.
Market & Vision
The communications industry is experiencing unprecedented
change. For consumers, user experience now trumps technology and price as the
key driver of purchase and adoption of new products and services. Communications
Service Providers (CSPs) are facing aggressive new competition from device
makers and powerful Internet companies all looking to capitalize on the mobile
Internet. And for equipment manufacturers, cost pressures and the need to invest
in new technologies are driving the need for new ways to improve efficiency and
scale, while achieving a significantly lower cost structure.
These market forces are creating a fundamental new set of innovation and system
integration (SI) challenges for CSPs. These include creating a subscriber device
competitive with the iPhone, delivering rich converged services, connecting a
wide range of new electronics such as digital picture frames and navigation
devices, and building network APIs and SDKs to best monetize cloud-based
services.
Equipment makers now must strike a delicate research and development (R&D)
balance between investments in existing products and those required to ensure
competitive readiness in new growth areas like metro Ethernet and Long Term
Evolution (LTE).
Aricent is the first company purposely constructed to work closely with CSPs and
equipment manufactures to solve the emerging and complex innovation, SI and R&D
challenges these organizations now face, in what some analysts estimate to be a
$9B market. Complementary to traditional outsourcing and consulting, Aricent is
a fundamentally new breed of strategic supplier architected to co-create,
together with our customers, the world’s most innovative communications products
and services.
Welcome to the Co-Create Era!
The Aricent Difference
Aricent offers its customers a fundamentally unique combination of
attributes. These include an exclusive focus on the communications industry,
leading innovation capabilities, and a broad set of products, technology and
services available via a scalable global delivery model. We believe these three
ingredients are essential to co-creation with our customers, and that they are a
key reason why Aricent has become a strategic supplier to the world's leading
communications equipment manufacturers and service providers. Aricent's products
and services span the entire communications ecosystem including user experience
design and consulting, research, development and testing for devices and
infrastructure, as well as operational and billing systems.
Milestones and Industry Firsts
- 7 of the top 10 Tier 1 Service Providers are Aricent customers;
- 9 of the top 10 Telecommunications Equipment Manufacturers are Aricent
customers;
- 8 of the top 10 Mobile Device Manufacturers are Aricent customers;
- 400M+ devices ship with Aricent software;
- Aricent co-developed some of the world’s first Femtocell, WiMAX and
In-flight broadband solutions;
- Aricent’s unique innovation / integration expertise has created breakthrough
user experiences such as Celltop and Sprint’s OneClick
Investors
Aricent’s investors include Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., Sequoia Capital,
The Family Office and The Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board.