Sasken Communication Technologies Limited

Sasken Communication Technologies Limited
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Sasken Communication Technologies Limited

Type	Public (BSE: SASKEN)
Founded	1989
Headquarters	Bangalore, India
Key people	Rajiv C Mody, Chairman
Industry	Telecom, Networks, Semiconductor
Services	Telecom research and development consultancy, wireless software products, software services and network engineering services, IC design
Revenue	▲ ~$142 million (FY 07-08)
Net income	▲ ~$9.8 million (FY 07-08)
Employees	~3,623 (as of March 2008)
Website	Sasken

Sasken office in Domlur, Bangalore

Sasken Communication Technologies Limited (formerly, Silicon Automation Systems, Inc. (SAS)) is a publicly traded (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).¹

1 Origin
2 Locations
3 Management Team
4 Certifications
5 Memberships
6 Subsidiaries
7 Investors
8 References
9 External links

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 4 other state of art development centers in Bangalore - at Bagmane Tech Park at CV Raman Nagar (also called Fac-B), Hosur Road (Fac-W), Maruthi Infotech Centre in Domlur (Fac-M) and Adarsh Prime Projects on Outer Ring Road (Fac-A). Sasken also has development centers at Chennai (Fac-C), Pune (Fac-P) and Hyderabad. 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 Chennai and Hyderabad in India, Kawasaki in Japan, Santa Clara, Plano and Burlington in USA, Monterrey in Mexico (2005), Saint-Laurent-du-Var in France, Frankfurt and Bochum 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
Neeta Revankar, Chief Financial Officer
Hari Iyer N, Senior Vice President & Head, Human Resources
T.K. Srikanth, Vice President and Head, Handset Solution Group
Ranganath Puranik, Senior Vice President and Head, Networks Business
Krishna Jayantilal Jhaveri, Wholetime Director

Certifications

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)