Sasken Communication Technologies

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company_name = Sasken Communication Technologies Limited
company_type = Public (BSE: [http://www.bseindia.com/price_finder/stockreach.asp?scripcd=532663 SASKEN] )
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foundation = 1989 | location = Bangalore, India
key_people = Rajiv C Mody, Chairman
services = Telecom research and development consultancy, wireless software products, software services and network engineering services, IC design
num_employees = ~3,623 (as of March 2008)
revenue = profit ~$142 million (FY 07-08)
net_income = profit ~$9.8 million (FY 07-08)
industry = Telecom, Networks, Semiconductor
homepage = [http://www.sasken.com/ Sasken]

Sasken Communication Technologies Limited (formerly, Silicon Automation Systems, Inc. (SAS)) is a publicly traded ( [http://www.bseindia.com/price_finder/stockreach.asp?scripcd=532663 Stock] ) company based in Bangalore, India, and offers research and development consultancy, wireless software products, software services and network engineering services to semiconductor manufacturers, wireless handset developers, network equipment and test and measurement companies, and service providers globally. According to a Business Today survey, Sasken was ranked the second best company to work for in India in 2005 (rated first in 2004). [ [http://www.ciol.com/content/news/2004/104111905.asp CIOL:Sasken tops best employer survey ] ]

Origin

Sasken Communication began as the brainchild of Rajiv C Mody, its chairman and CEO and 2 other co-founders, Suresh Dholakia and Badru Agarwala. Sasken came into being as Silicon Automation Systems (SAS) in 1989 in a small warehouse in Fremont, California. Later the company's name was changed to Sasken Communication Technologies Limited. The name 'Sasken' is an amalgamation of its original name (SAS) and the Scottish word for knowledge, 'ken'.

Locations

Sasken operates out of its headquarters in Bangalore. Besides its Global Development Center (called "Fac-Z"), it also has 3 other state of art development centers in Bangalore - at Bagmane Tech Park at CV Raman Nagar (also called "Fac-B"), Hosur Road ("Fac-W")and Maruthi Infotech Centre at Domlur("Fac-M"). Sasken also has development centers at Chennai ("Fac-Ch") and in Aundh, Pune ("Fac-P"). Most of its offices outside India handle sales operations. Since 2006, Sasken also has a global development center in Monterrey, Mexico ("Fac-Mx").Sasken has offices at Bangalore, Pune and Chennai in India, Kawasaki in Japan, Santa Clara, Plano and Burlington in USA, Monterrey in Mexico (2005), Saint-Laurent-du-Var in France, Frankfurt in Germany and Guildford in UK. Apart from these, in September 2006, Sasken acquired 100% stake in Botnia Hightech(Now Sasken Finland) headquartered in Kaustinen, Finland, with other offices in Tampere, Oulu and Turku in Finland.On 24 January 07 Sasken entered into a Joint Venture with Tata Autocomp(A prominent member of TATA group) known as TACO Sasken Automotive Electronics Pvt Ltd (TSAE). The JV focuses on automotive electronic products in the areas of telematics, infotainment and occupant convenience. TSAE will design, develop and market electronic products for the automotive markets both for OEM as well as the aftermarket. The development centre will be based out of Bangalore, India.

Management Team

* Rajiv C Mody, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
* Dr. G Venkatesh, Corporate Chief Technology Officer and Chief Strategy Officer
* Srikanth Kannankote, President and Chief Operating Officer
* Edwin Moses, Senior Vice President and Head, Terminal Devices and Sasken Finland
* Swaminathan Krishnan, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer
* Neeta Revankar, Chief Financial Officer
* Hari Iyer N, Senior Vice President & Head, Human Resources
* Ranganath Puranik, Senior Vice President and Head, Networks Business
* Krishna Jhaveri, Wholetime Director

Certifications

* SEI CMM Level 5
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* ISO 27001
* ISO 14001
* TL 9000

Memberships

* ITU
* 3GPP
* GCF
* MPEG-ISO
* ATM forum
* DSL forum
* SDR forum
* WiMAX forum

Subsidiaries

#Sasken Network Engineering Limited (SNEL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Sasken, was created when the company acquired the operations of Blue Broadband Technologies.
#Sasken acquired iSoftTech Private Limited, Chennai in June 2006.
#In September 2006, Sasken also acquired a Finnish company named Botnia Hightech Oy. It is now known as Sasken Finland Oy.
#On 24 January 07 Sasken has entered into a Joint Venture with Tata Autocomp , The JV will be known as TACO Sasken Automotive Electronics Pvt Ltd (TSAE)

Investors

#Sasken is listed on both BSE and NSE "' [http://www.sasken.com/investor/high.html]
#Sasken is an Intel Capital portfolio company [http://www.intel.com/capital/cases/sas_overview.htm] .

References

External links

* [http://www.sasken.com Sasken]
* [http://www.sasken.fi Sasken Finland]
* [http://www.connectm.com ConnectM - Sasken-IDG JV]
* [http://www.intelportfolio.com/cps/co_profile.asp?co_id=734 Sasken at Intel Capital]
* [http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1479902.cms Sasken acquires iSoftTech for $1.5m]
* [http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1812910.cms Sasken acquires Finnish firm]
* [http://www.business-standard.com/iceworld/storypage.php?leftnm=8&subLeft=2&chklogin=N&autono=289337&tab=r Sasken, IDG Ventures float $6 million JV]