Aricent

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Aricent/Altran Americas
TypeDefunct Company (acquired by Altran)
Industry R&D Services
Founded1985 (founding of Future Software Communications); 1991 (founding of Hughes Software Systems); merged after acquisition in 2004.
Defunct2019
Headquarters Santa Clara, California and later New York, New York (USA)
Gurgaon, Haryana (India)
ProductsProduct and service engineering (largely digital and software products and services)
Number of employees
10,000 [1]

Aricent was a global design and engineering services company. It was acquired by French-based company Altran in 2018 and renamed Altran North America in April 2019 [2] and Altran Americas in early 2020. With Altran's acquisition by Capgemini, the successors of Aricent are incorporated into Capgemini Engineering and to a lesser extent, Capgemini Invent.

Contents

Aricent was best known for developing telecom software which is used by telecom giants such as Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, Nokia Networks, Oracle, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, and Nortel.

History

Aricent is the successor to Hughes Software Systems, which was established in 1991, as a subsidiary of Hughes Electronics, [3] with funding from Sequoia Capital. [4] [5]

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