“We are a global design and engineering company innovating for the digital era. With more than 12,000 talented designers and engineers and over 25 years of experience”: Aricent

“We help the world's leading companies solve their most important business and technology innovation challenges - from Customer to Chip.”

Aricent takes pride in partnering with the world’s leading technology brands. Together we’re responsible for innovations that have created new markets worth billions. Working with Aricent means having a highly skilled leadership team that’s focused on your projects and understands how to create a framework for consistent innovation.

Software Frameworks Overview

Aricent designs and develops software building blocks that can dramatically accelerate new product development. Each framework or component represents years of R&D effort and typically shortens the time to market by 30-60%. The software is licensable and is currently used by 500+ OEMs, 100+ carrier networks and over 500 million devices world-wide. Each software solution can have defined SLAs and 24x7 Help Desk with Tier 3/Tier 4 support. Our software solutions are made available through flexible licensing models:

• Offered as source or binary code with annual maintenance
• Upfront license fee and royalty based on deployments
• Pre-paid or royalty buyouts
• Lab license for non-commercial purposes
• Co-investment with ‘seed clients’ for new technologies

Becoming digital durable

Aricent’s research shows that successful R&D-driven companies are competing aggressively on outcomes. These companies have a culture that anticipates disruption and introduces offerings that create sustainable value from IoT. They are digitally durable.

It’s not enough to embrace the new digital era. The existential challenge for companies today is to become digitally durable—to anticipate disruption and transform processes and products to compete on outcomes. Whether it’s understanding the profound impact of self-driving cars on transportation or being a part of the smart-energy revolution, simply closing the digital gap is no longer sufficient.

At the epicenter of the transformation is the R&D organization. R&D is responsible for innovating the design, development and support of the company’s products and services as the implications of Industry 4.0 —specifically the Internet of Things (IoT)—become a reality. Designers and engineers must not just stumble on a hit but systematically arrive at compelling offerings that generate sustainable value from digital technology.

A key challenge for most companies will be arriving at meaningful outcomes through the choreography of software, hardware, connectivity, and the ideal user experience.

The happy customer

Re-engineering the next generation wireless gateway

The customer is a tier 2 North American Communication Equipment provider with R and D centers across the globe. The customer’s primary business focus is on making IP based real time communications software products and solutions.

Challenges

• Generate new revenue streams with its already deployed platform, as its 3G and CDMA clients were rapidly adopting and carrier Wi-Fi.
• Development of highly scalable and high performance data plane
• Movement to newer high performance platform to scale its product that was limited by its hard to support proprietary hardware

Solution

The customer approached Aricent for carrying out the product development as Aricent could offer COTS platform based ready offering to reduce time to time market and Capex. Aricent took complete ownership for re-engineering the client’s security gateway and changed the client proprietary hardware to commercial off the shelf. It also provided SAMOG Gateway, a TTG ePDG  control-plane field deployed software to build Wi-Fi offload support in the gateway.

Leadership Team

Aricent takes pride in partnering with the world’s leading technology brands. Together we’re responsible for innovations that have created new markets worth billions. Our highly skilled leadership team is focused on your projects and understands how to create a framework for consistent innovation. We are the expertise behind many of the technologies that are powering a fully connected world. 

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Frank Kern: Chief Executive Officer

Frank Kern is the Chief Executive Officer of Aricent and a member of the Board of Directors. Prior to Aricent, Frank was with IBM for over thirty years in various leadership roles including Senior Vice President, Global Business Services, Senior Vice-President Sales and Distribution and President, Asia Pacific.

Harmeet Chauhan: President, Service Lines and Chief Strategy Officer

Harmeet Chauhan is the President, Service Lines and Chief Strategy Officer at Aricent. He has over 20 years of experience in the technology industry across products and services. Prior to joining Aricent, he was the Vice President, Communications OEM, Storage infrastructure and Semi-conductor group at HCL. Harmeet has previously held diverse business roles across Product Management, Business Strategy, Business Development and Product Marketing at Sun Microsystems and Microsoft Corporation.

"We are the expertise behind many of the technologies that are powering a fully connected world."