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’s unique engagement model blends strategy, design, technology and engineering services, delivering exceptional value across each phase of the product and service lifecycle.
Through a seamless combination of strategy consulting, design, licensable technology, software development, integration and support services, we help technology and communications-oriented companies create highly differentiated products, services and business models.
Aricent, together with its global innovation arm frog design, offers 40 years’ experience in delivering innovation and technology breakthroughs that have transformed entire industries. With more than 800 clients including Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Disney, GE, HP, and Vodafone, 9,500 employees in 19 countries, more than 100 industry awards and high profile investors including Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and Sequoia Capital, Aricent is uniquely positioned to help organizations conceive and commercialize innovative solutions.
Company Highlights
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One of the largest privately-held companies in Silicon Valley;
- 800+ customers;
- 9500+ employees, 33 offices worldwide;
- Product portfolio of more than 125 licensable products;
- Investors include KKR, Sequoia Capital, The Family Office, The Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board and Delta Partners.
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 Telecommunications Equipment Manufacturers (TEMs), 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, R&D and system integration challenges for CSPs and TEMs.
Aricent is the first company purposely constructed to work closely with CSPs and TEMs to solve the emerging and complex innovation, R&D and SI challenges these organizations now face, in what some analysts estimate to be a $150B 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.
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;
- 500M+ devices ship with Aricent software;
- Aricent participated in delivering 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,
The Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board, and Delta Partners.