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Tellabs

January 01, 1970

Tellabs, Inc. is a global network technology company that provides networking and communications solutions to both private and governmental agencies.[2] The company offers a range of products and services, including optical transport systems, access systems, managed access solutions, and network management software. The company was founded by Michael Birck in 1974 and is headquartered in Carrollton, Texas. It is currently owned by Marlin Equity Partners, who established an independent business for its product portfolio to accelerate the development of Optical local area network (OLAN) technology. This technology was designed for Enterprise and Government agency clients. OLAN uses fiber, which is faster, more secure, and more stable in comparison to traditional copper infrastructure.[3]

Tellabs
Company typePrivate
IndustryTelecommunications equipment
Founded1974[1]
FounderMichael Birck
Headquarters
Carrollton, Texas
,
United States
Key people
CEO: Rich Schroder, President/CEO
ProductsTelecommunications equipment, local area network & network management
OwnerMarlin Equity Partners
SubsidiariesCoherent Communications Systems Corp.
Martis Oy
Websitetellabs.com

History edit

Early years edit

Tellabs traces its roots to a meeting in 1974[1] over a kitchen table in suburban Chicago.[4] According to company founder Michael Birck, a group of six men with backgrounds in electrical engineering and sales drank coffee and brainstormed ideas for a new telecom company. Their aim was to build a company that offered products and services tailored to customer needs. After raising $110,000 in capital, they incorporated as Tellabs in the spring of 1975; the name combined the idea of telephones and laboratories. The start-up only had a one-man research department, a second-hand soldering iron picked up for $25, and an outdated oscilloscope.[5] In a matter of months, Tellabs began making echo suppressors, which suppress annoying echoes on phone calls. During this time, the founding partners drew no salaries.

The company went public in July 1980, ending the year with sales of $43.7 million. In September 1981, Tellabs introduced the industry's first echo canceller, an advance over the original echo suppressors that synthesized an echo and electronically subtracted it. By 1990, Tellabs had grown to 2,000 employees at 25 locations globally and sales of $211 million.

Tellabs made several acquisitions and expanded globally in the 1980s and into the 1990s, including Coherent Communications Systems Corp. and Martis Oy in Finland. In 1991, the company took a new direction, releasing its SONET-based TITAN 5500 digital cross-connect system. These systems switched traffic from one circuit to another, connecting traffic inside and between networks.

Richard Notebaert, who had led Ameritech, the Midwestern AT&T spin-off until it was acquired by SBC in 1999, took over Tellabs as CEO in September 2000. Pundits labeled Notebaert the “$6 billion man.”[6] However, as the Chicago Sun-Times also reported, the telecom industry also collapsed. The Chicago Sun-Times reported: “Telecom went from boom to bust as venture capital dried up and customers cancelled orders for the sort of equipment made by Tellabs and its competitors, including Nortel Networks and Lucent Technologies.” In 2003, following industry trends and after 28 years as a manufacturer, Tellabs sold its last plant in Illinois and outsourced its manufacturing.[7] The company continued downsizing.

2003 to present edit

In 2003, Tellabs began offering residential Broadband PON in a partnership with Verizon FiOS. Krish Prabhu, former chief operating officer of Alcatel took over as CEO in February 2004. Prabhu saw opportunities as Internet usage grew demanding faster connections as well as video and better VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) calling.[8] Tellabs acquired two companies in 2004. They purchased Advanced Fiber Communications (AFC), a provider of broadband access solutions with a customer base of more than 800 service providers worldwide at the time of the merger in a deal worth $1.9 billion[9] and Marconi Communications North American Access, which sold fiber-access services to regional Bell operating companies and local exchange carriers.[10] At the time of the merger, Marconi had a customer base that included many of the world's largest telecommunications operators, managing more than 4 million lines of capacity and about 1 million deployed lines.[10] By 2007, nearly half of Tellabs' revenue came from products added since 2003.[11]

Prabhu also presided over more cutbacks as the telecom industry continued to struggle. In January 2008, Tellabs announced that it was cutting 225 jobs during the year. This would leave Tellabs with about 3,500 jobs, down from a peak of 9,000 during the boom in 2001. Prabhu stepped down in March 2008 for personal reasons; Birck praised him at his departure.[12] Tellabs internally promoted Robert W. Pullen, who had 23 years of varied experience at Tellabs, to succeed Prabhu as chief executive and president effective March 1, 2008. He was the chairman of the executive board of the Telecommunications Industry Association.[13] In 2009 Tellabs acquired WiChorus, a San-Jose based Silicon Valley start-up with a mobile packet core platform, a decision that led to the decline of their data business.[14] After Pullen was hospitalized in June 2012 due to cancer, Dan Kelly was appointed acting CEO and president; Kelly later assumed the full offices in November 2012, following Pullen's death. Kelly had previously served as executive vice president of global products and had worked with the company for over 25 years.[15]

In 2013, Tellabs was acquired by Marlin Equity Partners, a global investment company.[16] Marlin announced plans to establish an independent business for the Tellabs Access product portfolio, aiming to accelerate Tellabs' development of Optical local area network (OLAN) technology. Marlin announced it would target OLAN to Enterprise and Government agencies, while continuing to support and expand its Telecommunications portfolio.[17] The Optical Transport, Metro Ethernet and Mobility business units of Tellabs were spun off into Coriant, a separate company owned by Marlin Equity.[18] Mike Dagenais, an industry veteran who had previously served as CEO of Radisys Corporation and as president and CEO of Continuous Computing, was tapped to head Tellabs as president and CEO.[17] The focus of Tellabs is now OLAN technology. OLAN uses fiber, which is faster, more secure, and more stable in comparison to traditional copper infrastructure.[3] For service providers, Tellabs Access Platforms provide Broadband access to more than 5 million homes in North America.[19] On October 11, 2017, it was announced that Jim Norrod had been named president and CEO of Tellabs, following the retirement of Mike Dagenais.[20]

In December 2019, Tellabs announced that Rich Schroder had been appointed president and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Schroder has held numerous positions within Tellabs and most recently served as Chief Operating Officer. Schroder is a telecom industry veteran with past experience running global multi-site organizations in Asia, Europe and across the U.S. on behalf of AFC, Marconi, RELTEC, DSC and Siemens.[21]

Corporate edit

Tellabs global corporate headquarters is located in the northwest quadrant of Dallas, Texas, in the city of Carrollton, Texas.[22]

Hardware edit

Optical Line Terminals edit

The optical line terminal provides centralized end-to-end LAN intelligence, management and control. It also provides aggregation and distribution functions and typically resides in the main data center of a building. An OLT has two primary functions. Converting the signal used by FiOS service providers to the frequency and framing being used in the PON system and coordinating the multiplexing between the conversion devices on the optical network terminals (ONTs) located on the customers' premises.[23] Tellabs Optical Line Terminals minimize the physical space required within the main data center.

Optical Network Terminals edit

Tellabs designs Optical Network Terminals, aimed for use in high-volume passive optical network (PON) commercial deployments. Tellabs Optical Network Terminals provide narrowband and broadband subscriber services over a PON platform to the IP/Ethernet end-points; all services are supported natively over a single fiber, including analog voice, VoIP, high-speed data, IP video, RF video, smart buildings apps, security, surveillance, environmental and automation for modern high-performance LANs.[24]

Software edit

Element Management edit

Tellabs Panorama PON Manager is the cornerstone of an Optical LAN end-to-end system. It provides centralized intelligence and element management across the entire LAN, from OLT to ONT and extends to subtended powered devices. Tellabs describes its PON Manager as helping define LAN resources in software and then dynamically allocate them, based on real-time requirements.[24]

Advanced Software Packages edit

Tellabs Optical LAN solution is designed to improve LAN availability uptime and increase operational efficiencies and network security. Tellabs offers multiple packages: Advanced Availability Software Package builds LANs that minimize annual network downtime while lowering costs, reducing human error, and improving security; Tellabs Advanced Operational Software Package improves IT efficiencies by increasing the speed of LAN configurations, monitoring, troubleshooting and MACs while once again reducing human error and network security risks; and Tellabs Advanced Security Software Package enhances physical LAN defensibility, enabling consistent protection policies that are centrally managed while continuing to reduce human error and increasing network stability.[24]

Services edit

Tellabs offers three services: Professional Network Services, which it describes as providing support at all stages of the network life cycle,[25] Technical Support Services, which offers a variety of technical support agreement options to meet the specific needs of organization's network,[26] and Network Training Services, which offers a variety of network training programs to keep staff up to date to support all phases of network's life cycle.[27]

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Company Overview of Tellabs Inc". Bloomberg. Retrieved May 11, 2018.
  2. ^ "Fact sheet" (PDF). svnw1.tellabs.com. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
  3. ^ a b "Optical LAN: A Critical Piece Of A Library's Technological Innovation | Tellabs".
  4. ^ Goldsborough, Bob (2019-09-08). "Chris Cooney, co-founder and worldwide sales leader for Tellabs, dies at 77". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2023-02-16.
  5. ^ Twenty-Five Years of Clear Ideas: Tellabs 1975-2000. Tellabs. December 1999.
  6. ^ Wolinsky, Howard (2000-08-18). . Chicago Sun-Times. p. 59. Archived from the original on 2011-05-17.
  7. ^ Wolinsky, Howard (2003-11-17). . Chicago Sun-Times. p. 56. Archived from the original on 2011-05-17.
  8. ^ Singh, Shruti (2005-12-05). . Crain's Chicago Business. Archived from the original on 2011-05-17.
  9. ^ Reading 5/20/2004, News Analysis Light. "Tellabs Buys AFC for $1.9 Billion". Light Reading.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  10. ^ a b "Data". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
  11. ^ (PDF) (Press release). Tellabs. 2008-01-22. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-01-23.
  12. ^ Wolinsky, Howard (2007-11-09). . Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on 2011-05-17.
  13. ^ "Board of Directors (Officers)". website. Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA). Retrieved 2010-12-12.
  14. ^ "Tellabs CEO Rob Pullen dies of cancer". Crain's Chicago Business. July 2, 2012.
  15. ^ "Tellabs names Daniel P. Kelly chief executive officer and president". www.prnewswire.com (Press release).
  16. ^ Writer, CBR Staff (2013-10-22). "Marlin to acquire telecommunications company Tellabs for $891m". Tech Monitor. Retrieved 2023-03-08.
  17. ^ a b . www.tellabs.com. Archived from the original on 17 July 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  18. ^ "StackPath". www.lightwaveonline.com.
  19. ^ . www.tellabs.com. Archived from the original on 18 March 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  20. ^ Cunningham, Dave. "Tellabs announces new President and CEO". blog.tellabs.com.
  21. ^ "Tellabs Announces New Leadership | Tellabs". 19 December 2019. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
  22. ^ "Our new HQ in Carrollton Texas inspires innovation | Tellabs". 2 June 2020. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
  23. ^ "What is optical line terminal (OLT)? | Definition from TechTarget". Networking. Retrieved 2023-03-08.
  24. ^ a b c "Products – Tellabs".
  25. ^ "Professional Services – Tellabs".
  26. ^ "Technical Support – Tellabs".
  27. ^ "Training – Tellabs".

External links edit

    • Historical business data for Tellabs:
    • SEC filings

January 01, 1970
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This article s lead section may be too short to adequately summarize the key points Please consider expanding the lead to provide an accessible overview of all important aspects of the article February 2023 Tellabs Inc is a global network technology company that provides networking and communications solutions to both private and governmental agencies 2 The company offers a range of products and services including optical transport systems access systems managed access solutions and network management software The company was founded by Michael Birck in 1974 and is headquartered in Carrollton Texas It is currently owned by Marlin Equity Partners who established an independent business for its product portfolio to accelerate the development of Optical local area network OLAN technology This technology was designed for Enterprise and Government agency clients OLAN uses fiber which is faster more secure and more stable in comparison to traditional copper infrastructure 3 TellabsCompany typePrivateIndustryTelecommunications equipmentFounded1974 1 FounderMichael BirckHeadquartersCarrollton Texas United StatesKey peopleCEO Rich Schroder President CEOProductsTelecommunications equipment local area network amp network managementOwnerMarlin Equity PartnersSubsidiariesCoherent Communications Systems Corp Martis OyWebsitetellabs wbr com Contents 1 History 1 1 Early years 1 2 2003 to present 2 Corporate 3 Hardware 3 1 Optical Line Terminals 3 2 Optical Network Terminals 4 Software 4 1 Element Management 4 2 Advanced Software Packages 5 Services 6 References 7 External linksHistory editEarly years edit Tellabs traces its roots to a meeting in 1974 1 over a kitchen table in suburban Chicago 4 According to company founder Michael Birck a group of six men with backgrounds in electrical engineering and sales drank coffee and brainstormed ideas for a new telecom company Their aim was to build a company that offered products and services tailored to customer needs After raising 110 000 in capital they incorporated as Tellabs in the spring of 1975 the name combined the idea of telephones and laboratories The start up only had a one man research department a second hand soldering iron picked up for 25 and an outdated oscilloscope 5 In a matter of months Tellabs began making echo suppressors which suppress annoying echoes on phone calls During this time the founding partners drew no salaries The company went public in July 1980 ending the year with sales of 43 7 million In September 1981 Tellabs introduced the industry s first echo canceller an advance over the original echo suppressors that synthesized an echo and electronically subtracted it By 1990 Tellabs had grown to 2 000 employees at 25 locations globally and sales of 211 million Tellabs made several acquisitions and expanded globally in the 1980s and into the 1990s including Coherent Communications Systems Corp and Martis Oy in Finland In 1991 the company took a new direction releasing its SONET based TITAN 5500 digital cross connect system These systems switched traffic from one circuit to another connecting traffic inside and between networks Richard Notebaert who had led Ameritech the Midwestern AT amp T spin off until it was acquired by SBC in 1999 took over Tellabs as CEO in September 2000 Pundits labeled Notebaert the 6 billion man 6 However as the Chicago Sun Times also reported the telecom industry also collapsed The Chicago Sun Times reported Telecom went from boom to bust as venture capital dried up and customers cancelled orders for the sort of equipment made by Tellabs and its competitors including Nortel Networks and Lucent Technologies In 2003 following industry trends and after 28 years as a manufacturer Tellabs sold its last plant in Illinois and outsourced its manufacturing 7 The company continued downsizing 2003 to present edit In 2003 Tellabs began offering residential Broadband PON in a partnership with Verizon FiOS Krish Prabhu former chief operating officer of Alcatel took over as CEO in February 2004 Prabhu saw opportunities as Internet usage grew demanding faster connections as well as video and better VoIP Voice over Internet Protocol calling 8 Tellabs acquired two companies in 2004 They purchased Advanced Fiber Communications AFC a provider of broadband access solutions with a customer base of more than 800 service providers worldwide at the time of the merger in a deal worth 1 9 billion 9 and Marconi Communications North American Access which sold fiber access services to regional Bell operating companies and local exchange carriers 10 At the time of the merger Marconi had a customer base that included many of the world s largest telecommunications operators managing more than 4 million lines of capacity and about 1 million deployed lines 10 By 2007 nearly half of Tellabs revenue came from products added since 2003 11 Prabhu also presided over more cutbacks as the telecom industry continued to struggle In January 2008 Tellabs announced that it was cutting 225 jobs during the year This would leave Tellabs with about 3 500 jobs down from a peak of 9 000 during the boom in 2001 Prabhu stepped down in March 2008 for personal reasons Birck praised him at his departure 12 Tellabs internally promoted Robert W Pullen who had 23 years of varied experience at Tellabs to succeed Prabhu as chief executive and president effective March 1 2008 He was the chairman of the executive board of the Telecommunications Industry Association 13 In 2009 Tellabs acquired WiChorus a San Jose based Silicon Valley start up with a mobile packet core platform a decision that led to the decline of their data business 14 After Pullen was hospitalized in June 2012 due to cancer Dan Kelly was appointed acting CEO and president Kelly later assumed the full offices in November 2012 following Pullen s death Kelly had previously served as executive vice president of global products and had worked with the company for over 25 years 15 In 2013 Tellabs was acquired by Marlin Equity Partners a global investment company 16 Marlin announced plans to establish an independent business for the Tellabs Access product portfolio aiming to accelerate Tellabs development of Optical local area network OLAN technology Marlin announced it would target OLAN to Enterprise and Government agencies while continuing to support and expand its Telecommunications portfolio 17 The Optical Transport Metro Ethernet and Mobility business units of Tellabs were spun off into Coriant a separate company owned by Marlin Equity 18 Mike Dagenais an industry veteran who had previously served as CEO of Radisys Corporation and as president and CEO of Continuous Computing was tapped to head Tellabs as president and CEO 17 The focus of Tellabs is now OLAN technology OLAN uses fiber which is faster more secure and more stable in comparison to traditional copper infrastructure 3 For service providers Tellabs Access Platforms provide Broadband access to more than 5 million homes in North America 19 On October 11 2017 it was announced that Jim Norrod had been named president and CEO of Tellabs following the retirement of Mike Dagenais 20 In December 2019 Tellabs announced that Rich Schroder had been appointed president and Chief Executive Officer Mr Schroder has held numerous positions within Tellabs and most recently served as Chief Operating Officer Schroder is a telecom industry veteran with past experience running global multi site organizations in Asia Europe and across the U S on behalf of AFC Marconi RELTEC DSC and Siemens 21 Corporate editTellabs global corporate headquarters is located in the northwest quadrant of Dallas Texas in the city of Carrollton Texas 22 Hardware editThis article contains content that is written like an advertisement Please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view May 2020 Learn how and when to remove this message Optical Line Terminals edit The optical line terminal provides centralized end to end LAN intelligence management and control It also provides aggregation and distribution functions and typically resides in the main data center of a building An OLT has two primary functions Converting the signal used by FiOS service providers to the frequency and framing being used in the PON system and coordinating the multiplexing between the conversion devices on the optical network terminals ONTs located on the customers premises 23 Tellabs Optical Line Terminals minimize the physical space required within the main data center Optical Network Terminals edit Tellabs designs Optical Network Terminals aimed for use in high volume passive optical network PON commercial deployments Tellabs Optical Network Terminals provide narrowband and broadband subscriber services over a PON platform to the IP Ethernet end points all services are supported natively over a single fiber including analog voice VoIP high speed data IP video RF video smart buildings apps security surveillance environmental and automation for modern high performance LANs 24 Software editElement Management edit Tellabs Panorama PON Manager is the cornerstone of an Optical LAN end to end system It provides centralized intelligence and element management across the entire LAN from OLT to ONT and extends to subtended powered devices Tellabs describes its PON Manager as helping define LAN resources in software and then dynamically allocate them based on real time requirements 24 Advanced Software Packages edit Tellabs Optical LAN solution is designed to improve LAN availability uptime and increase operational efficiencies and network security Tellabs offers multiple packages Advanced Availability Software Package builds LANs that minimize annual network downtime while lowering costs reducing human error and improving security Tellabs Advanced Operational Software Package improves IT efficiencies by increasing the speed of LAN configurations monitoring troubleshooting and MACs while once again reducing human error and network security risks and Tellabs Advanced Security Software Package enhances physical LAN defensibility enabling consistent protection policies that are centrally managed while continuing to reduce human error and increasing network stability 24 Services editTellabs offers three services Professional Network Services which it describes as providing support at all stages of the network life cycle 25 Technical Support Services which offers a variety of technical support agreement options to meet the specific needs of organization s network 26 and Network Training Services which offers a variety of network training programs to keep staff up to date to support all phases of network s life cycle 27 References edit a b Company Overview of Tellabs Inc Bloomberg Retrieved May 11 2018 Fact sheet PDF svnw1 tellabs com Retrieved 2020 06 10 a b Optical LAN A Critical Piece Of A Library s Technological Innovation Tellabs Goldsborough Bob 2019 09 08 Chris Cooney co founder and worldwide sales leader for Tellabs dies at 77 Chicago Tribune Retrieved 2023 02 16 Twenty Five Years of Clear Ideas Tellabs 1975 2000 Tellabs December 1999 Wolinsky Howard 2000 08 18 New CEO Notebaert to lead Tellabs growth Chicago Sun Times p 59 Archived from the original on 2011 05 17 Wolinsky Howard 2003 11 17 Tellabs leaving manufacturing with plant sale Naperville company to sell operations in Finland Chicago Sun Times p 56 Archived from the original on 2011 05 17 Singh Shruti 2005 12 05 PRABHU TACKLES TELLABS PUZZLE Telecom vet engineering change at gear maker Crain s Chicago Business Archived from the original on 2011 05 17 Reading 5 20 2004 News Analysis Light Tellabs Buys AFC for 1 9 Billion Light Reading a href Template Cite news html title Template Cite news cite news a CS1 maint numeric names authors list link a b Data www bizjournals com Retrieved 2020 06 10 News Release Tellabs reports fourth quarter revenue of 469 million PDF Press release Tellabs 2008 01 22 Archived from the original PDF on 2008 01 23 Wolinsky Howard 2007 11 09 Krish did superb job Founder says departing CEO Prabhu not forced out Chicago Sun Times Archived from the original on 2011 05 17 Board of Directors Officers website Telecommunications Industry Association TIA Retrieved 2010 12 12 Tellabs CEO Rob Pullen dies of cancer Crain s Chicago Business July 2 2012 Tellabs names Daniel P Kelly chief executive officer and president www prnewswire com Press release Writer CBR Staff 2013 10 22 Marlin to acquire telecommunications company Tellabs for 891m Tech Monitor Retrieved 2023 03 08 a b Tellabs Find Your Optical Solutions www tellabs com Archived from the original on 17 July 2015 Retrieved 13 January 2022 StackPath www lightwaveonline com Tellabs Overview www tellabs com Archived from the original on 18 March 2015 Retrieved 13 January 2022 Cunningham Dave Tellabs announces new President and CEO blog tellabs com Tellabs Announces New Leadership Tellabs 19 December 2019 Retrieved 2020 06 10 Our new HQ in Carrollton Texas inspires innovation Tellabs 2 June 2020 Retrieved 2020 06 10 What is optical line terminal OLT Definition from TechTarget Networking Retrieved 2023 03 08 a b c Products Tellabs Professional Services Tellabs Technical Support Tellabs Training Tellabs External links editHistorical business data for Tellabs SEC filings Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Tellabs amp oldid 1180183551, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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