ADTRAN opens high tech engineering research and development center in Hyderabad, India
HUNTSVILLE, Ala.–(February, 2013) — ADTRAN®, Inc., (NASDAQ:ADTN), a leading provider of next-generation networking solutions, today announced the expansion of its research and development capabilities with the opening of its high tech engineering facility in Hyderabad, the capital and largest city of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Inaugurated by the Honorable Minister for Information Technology and Communications, Government of Andhra Pradesh, Sri Ponnala Lakshmaiah Garu, the center has been created to increase ADTRAN’s international reach.
ADTRAN, alongside its regional partners, has been engaged in R&D activities in Hyderabad for over six years. Having achieved this high level of engagement, ADTRAN decided to open a new center to focus its activities and build on the strong platform it had developed. This new center will initially employ approximately 30 engineers focusing on Telecom Hardware and Software design, development, qualification and maintenance.
Gouri Shanker, Head India Design Center ADTRAN Networks India Pvt. Ltd, explains, “Our vision for this new center is to augment engineering responsibilities for our products and customer base, including design and development, product qualification, maintenance and customer support”.
Nate Bhadriraju, Vice President Engineering ADTRAN, Inc. , added, “We committed to opening this high tech engineering research and development center in Hyderabad to increase our capabilities in this region, and advance our collaboration and synergies across our global R&D locations.”
ADTRAN is a leading global provider of networking and communications equipment, with a product portfolio of over 3,200 solutions deployed by some of the largest service providers, distributed enterprises and small to medium-sized businesses in the world. With development centers in the USA, Canada, Germany and India, ADTRAN has a track record of technical leadership, excellence and innovation within the networking and communications marketplace. Consistently demonstrating global industry leadership, ADTRAN has numerous R&D accolades to its name, including the first converged voice and data business gateway (1997), first VDSL deployment based on IP DSLAM (2006), first cloud based wireless LAN (2010) and first edge optimized packet optical networking platform (2011). Further, in May 2012, ADTRAN acquired Nokia Siemens Networks Fixed Line Broadband Access business extending ADTRAN’s operations to more than 20 additional countries, and obtained nearly 100 new carrier customer contracts.
About ADTRAN
ADTRAN, Inc. is a leading global provider of networking and communications equipment. ADTRAN’s products enable voice, data, video and Internet communications across a variety of network infrastructures. ADTRAN solutions are currently in use by service providers, private enterprises, government organizations, and millions of individual users worldwide. For more information, please visit www.adtran.com.