Telcordia Technologies
Encyclopedia
Telcordia Technologies, formerly Bell Communications Research, Inc. or Bellcore, is a telecommunications research and development (R&D) company based in the United States
created as part of the 1982 Modification of Final Judgment
that broke up American Telephone & Telegraph
(AT&T). On June 14, 2011, Ericsson
announced an agreement to acquire Telcordia.
that broke up the Bell System
. Bellcore was a consortium established by the Regional Bell Operating Companies upon their separation from AT&T
. Since AT&T retained Bell Laboratories, the operating companies wanted to have their own R&D facility. Bellcore, the tenth company to register a .com
domain, provided joint R&D, standards setting, training, and centralized government point-of-contact functions for its co-owners, the seven Regional Holding Companies
that were themselves divested from AT&T as holding companies for the 22 local Bell Operating Companies.
Bellcore's initial staff and corporate culture drew heavily via transfers of personnel from the nearby Bell Labs
locations in northern New Jersey, plus additional staff from AT&T and the regional operating companies. The company originally established its headquarters in Livingston
with dedication by New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean
in 1985, but moved its headquarters to Morristown
location a decade later. Bellcore operated the former Bell System Center for Technical Education in Lisle, Illinois
.
Although Bellcore's R&D and standard setting were of considerable importance to the telecommunications industry in general, the asset value of the company was largely centered in ownership of the approx. 6,000 pieces of network software, many of enormous size, that functionally ran the US telephone system. Additionally, Bellcore held ownership of the Bell name and logo on behalf of the seven owner companies together with Cincinnati Bell and Southern New England Telephone.
In 1992 issues related to the management of the software systems led to the formation of a Study Group of senior business and legal representatives of the seven Owner Companies, commonly referred to as the OC's, together with the executive leadership of Bellcore, and facilitated by Marc Paul Chinoy, President of The Regis Group, Inc. of Leesburg, Virginia. A structured deliberation of the joint leadership continued on a daily basis until November 1996, when by unanimous decision, the Study Group recommended, and the seven OC CEO's approved the divestiture of the company, while retaining the name and logo.
In 1996, the company was provisionally acquired by Science Applications International Corporation
(SAIC). The sale was closed one year later, following a regulatory approval process that covered all the states individually. Since the divested company no longer had any ownership connection with the Bell regional companies, the name was changed to Telcordia. The headquarters was eventually moved to Piscataway. Stake in the company was subsequently sold in November 2004 to Providence Equity Partners
and Warburg Pincus
, who both held equal stakes in the company.
Telcordia is a chief architect of the telecommunications system in the U.S., and has pioneered many of the telecommunications services used today, including Caller ID
, Call Waiting
, Mobile number portability
and Toll-free telephone number
(800) service. Telcordia’s expertise lies in managing large, complex projects across the operations and communications spectrum.
Telcordia offers products and services in the area of network planning and engineering, service assurance, delivery, fulfillment and data management and operations support. Telcordia’s software products are designed to solve communications problems, support complex operations missions and system interoperability issues. Telcordia also writes proposed generic requirements (GRs) for telecommunications industry hardware and offers consulting and testing to these GRs.
Telcordia has its headquarters in Piscataway, New Jersey, USA and has a Software Development Lab in Chennai, India. Telcordia is pioneer in the field of prepaid Charging system commonly called as Intelligent network. Most of the development work in Intelligent network now comes from the labs in India and the US. Its headquarters campus at Piscataway and its offices and laboratories at Red Bank, New Jersey
were originally Bell Laboratories (Bell Labs
) locations transferred to Telcordia.
On June 14, 2011, Ericsson announced an agreement to acquire Telcordia for USD 1.15 billion. The closing is anticipated to occur in Q4 2011.
/SONET
, Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN), optical networking
/ Wavelength-division multiplexing
(WDM), wireless (3G
/4G
, cellular
, mobility), security and more.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
created as part of the 1982 Modification of Final Judgment
Modification of Final Judgment
In United States telecommunication law, Modification of Final Judgment is the August 1982 agreement approved by the court settling United States v. AT&T, a landmark antitrust suit, originally filed on January, 14, 1949 and modifying the previous Final Judgment of January 24, 1956...
that broke up American Telephone & Telegraph
American Telephone & Telegraph
AT&T Corp., originally American Telephone and Telegraph Company, is an American telecommunications company that provides voice, video, data, and Internet telecommunications and professional services to businesses, consumers, and government agencies. AT&T is the oldest telecommunications company...
(AT&T). On June 14, 2011, Ericsson
Ericsson
Ericsson , one of Sweden's largest companies, is a provider of telecommunication and data communication systems, and related services, covering a range of technologies, including especially mobile networks...
announced an agreement to acquire Telcordia.
History
The company was created on January 1, 1984 as part of the 1982 Modification of Final JudgmentModification of Final Judgment
In United States telecommunication law, Modification of Final Judgment is the August 1982 agreement approved by the court settling United States v. AT&T, a landmark antitrust suit, originally filed on January, 14, 1949 and modifying the previous Final Judgment of January 24, 1956...
that broke up the Bell System
Bell System
The Bell System was the American Bell Telephone Company and then, subsequently, AT&T led system which provided telephone services to much of the United States and Canada from 1877 to 1984, at various times as a monopoly. In 1984, the company was broken up into separate companies, by a U.S...
. Bellcore was a consortium established by the Regional Bell Operating Companies upon their separation from AT&T
AT&T
AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications corporation headquartered in Whitacre Tower, Dallas, Texas, United States. It is the largest provider of mobile telephony and fixed telephony in the United States, and is also a provider of broadband and subscription television services...
. Since AT&T retained Bell Laboratories, the operating companies wanted to have their own R&D facility. Bellcore, the tenth company to register a .com
.com
The domain name com is a generic top-level domain in the Domain Name System of the Internet. Its name is derived from commercial, indicating its original intended purpose for domains registered by commercial organizations...
domain, provided joint R&D, standards setting, training, and centralized government point-of-contact functions for its co-owners, the seven Regional Holding Companies
Regional Bell Operating Company
The Regional Bell Operating Companies are the result of United States v. AT&T, the U.S. Department of Justice antitrust suit against the former American Telephone & Telegraph Company . On January 8, 1982, AT&T Corp. settled the suit and agreed to divest its local exchange service operating...
that were themselves divested from AT&T as holding companies for the 22 local Bell Operating Companies.
Bellcore's initial staff and corporate culture drew heavily via transfers of personnel from the nearby Bell Labs
Bell Labs
Bell Laboratories is the research and development subsidiary of the French-owned Alcatel-Lucent and previously of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company , half-owned through its Western Electric manufacturing subsidiary.Bell Laboratories operates its...
locations in northern New Jersey, plus additional staff from AT&T and the regional operating companies. The company originally established its headquarters in Livingston
Livingston, New Jersey
Livingston is a township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township population was 29,366.Livingston was incorporated as a township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 5, 1813, from portions of Caldwell Township and Springfield...
with dedication by New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean
Thomas Kean
Thomas Howard Kean is an American Republican Party politician, who served as the 48th Governor of New Jersey from 1982 to 1990. Kean is best known globally, however, for his 2002 appointment as Chairman of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, widely known as the...
in 1985, but moved its headquarters to Morristown
Morristown, New Jersey
Morristown is a town in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the town population was 18,411. It is the county seat of Morris County. Morristown became characterized as "the military capital of the American Revolution" because of its strategic role in the...
location a decade later. Bellcore operated the former Bell System Center for Technical Education in Lisle, Illinois
Lisle, Illinois
Lisle is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. The population was 22,930 at the 2011 census, and estimated to be 23,135 as of 2008. It is part of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Illinois Technology and Research Corridor...
.
Although Bellcore's R&D and standard setting were of considerable importance to the telecommunications industry in general, the asset value of the company was largely centered in ownership of the approx. 6,000 pieces of network software, many of enormous size, that functionally ran the US telephone system. Additionally, Bellcore held ownership of the Bell name and logo on behalf of the seven owner companies together with Cincinnati Bell and Southern New England Telephone.
In 1992 issues related to the management of the software systems led to the formation of a Study Group of senior business and legal representatives of the seven Owner Companies, commonly referred to as the OC's, together with the executive leadership of Bellcore, and facilitated by Marc Paul Chinoy, President of The Regis Group, Inc. of Leesburg, Virginia. A structured deliberation of the joint leadership continued on a daily basis until November 1996, when by unanimous decision, the Study Group recommended, and the seven OC CEO's approved the divestiture of the company, while retaining the name and logo.
In 1996, the company was provisionally acquired by Science Applications International Corporation
Science Applications International Corporation
SAIC is a FORTUNE 500 scientific, engineering and technology applications company headquartered in the United States with numerous federal, state, and private sector clients...
(SAIC). The sale was closed one year later, following a regulatory approval process that covered all the states individually. Since the divested company no longer had any ownership connection with the Bell regional companies, the name was changed to Telcordia. The headquarters was eventually moved to Piscataway. Stake in the company was subsequently sold in November 2004 to Providence Equity Partners
Providence Equity Partners
Providence Equity Partners is a global private equity investment firm focused on media, entertainment, communications and information investments...
and Warburg Pincus
Warburg Pincus
Warburg Pincus, LLC is an American private equity firm with offices in the United States, Europe, Brazil and Asia. It has been a private equity investor since 1966...
, who both held equal stakes in the company.
Telcordia is a chief architect of the telecommunications system in the U.S., and has pioneered many of the telecommunications services used today, including Caller ID
Caller ID
Caller ID , also called calling line identification or calling number identification or Calling Line Identification Presentation , is a telephone service, available in analog and digital phone systems and most Voice over Internet Protocol applications, that transmits a caller's number to...
, Call Waiting
Call waiting
Call waiting , in telephony, is a feature on some telephone networks. If a calling party places a call to a called party which is otherwise engaged, and the called party has the call waiting feature enabled, the called party is able to suspend the current telephone call and switch to the new...
, Mobile number portability
Mobile number portability
Mobile number portability enables mobile telephone users to retain their mobile telephone numbers when changing from one mobile network operator to another.- General overview :MNP is implemented in different ways across the globe...
and Toll-free telephone number
Toll-free telephone number
A toll-free, Freecall, Freephone, 800, 0800 or 1-800 number is a special telephone number which is free to the calling party, and instead the telephone carrier charges the called party the cost of the call...
(800) service. Telcordia’s expertise lies in managing large, complex projects across the operations and communications spectrum.
Telcordia offers products and services in the area of network planning and engineering, service assurance, delivery, fulfillment and data management and operations support. Telcordia’s software products are designed to solve communications problems, support complex operations missions and system interoperability issues. Telcordia also writes proposed generic requirements (GRs) for telecommunications industry hardware and offers consulting and testing to these GRs.
Telcordia has its headquarters in Piscataway, New Jersey, USA and has a Software Development Lab in Chennai, India. Telcordia is pioneer in the field of prepaid Charging system commonly called as Intelligent network. Most of the development work in Intelligent network now comes from the labs in India and the US. Its headquarters campus at Piscataway and its offices and laboratories at Red Bank, New Jersey
Red Bank, New Jersey
-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 11,844 people, 5,201 households, and 2,501 families residing in the borough. The population density was 6,639.1 people per square mile . There were 5,450 housing units at an average density of 3,055.0 per square mile...
were originally Bell Laboratories (Bell Labs
Bell Labs
Bell Laboratories is the research and development subsidiary of the French-owned Alcatel-Lucent and previously of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company , half-owned through its Western Electric manufacturing subsidiary.Bell Laboratories operates its...
) locations transferred to Telcordia.
On June 14, 2011, Ericsson announced an agreement to acquire Telcordia for USD 1.15 billion. The closing is anticipated to occur in Q4 2011.
Innovation
Telcordia research has yielded more than 1,800 patents across ADSL, ATMAsynchronous Transfer Mode
Asynchronous Transfer Mode is a standard switching technique designed to unify telecommunication and computer networks. It uses asynchronous time-division multiplexing, and it encodes data into small, fixed-sized cells. This differs from approaches such as the Internet Protocol or Ethernet that...
/SONET
Sonet
Sonet may refer to:* Sonet Records, European record label* Synchronous optical networking * Saab Sonett...
, Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN), optical networking
Optical networking
Optical networking can refer to:* Optical communication* Fiber-optic communication* Synchronous optical networking* Optical Transport Network * Passive optical network...
/ Wavelength-division multiplexing
Wavelength-division multiplexing
In fiber-optic communications, wavelength-division multiplexing is a technology which multiplexes a number of optical carrier signals onto a single optical fiber by using different wavelengths of laser light...
(WDM), wireless (3G
3G
3G or 3rd generation mobile telecommunications is a generation of standards for mobile phones and mobile telecommunication services fulfilling the International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 specifications by the International Telecommunication Union...
/4G
4G
In telecommunications, 4G is the fourth generation of cellular wireless standards. It is a successor to the 3G and 2G families of standards. In 2009, the ITU-R organization specified the IMT-Advanced requirements for 4G standards, setting peak speed requirements for 4G service at 100 Mbit/s...
, cellular
Cellular network
A cellular network is a radio network distributed over land areas called cells, each served by at least one fixed-location transceiver known as a cell site or base station. When joined together these cells provide radio coverage over a wide geographic area...
, mobility), security and more.