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 and Altran Americas in early 2020. With Altran's acquisition by

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, the successors of Aricent are incorporated into

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and to a lesser extent, Capgemini Invent. Aricent has a long lasting legacy of developing Telecom software which are used by all telecom giants such as

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, Oracle, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, and

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History

Aricent is the successor to Hughes Software Systems, which was established in 1991, as a subsidiary of

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, with funding from Sequoia Capital. * 1985: Future Software Communications, which will eventually merge with Hughes Software Systems, founded by KV Ramani. * 1991: Hughes Software Systems (HSS) founded by KV Ramani in

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to develop software solutions in the areas of VSAT-based networks for voice and data, cellular wireless telephony, packet switching, and multi-protocol routing. Pioneered the development of Protocol Stacks. * 2004: Flextronics bought HSS to form Flextronics Software Systems and merged with Future Software headquartered. Acquired

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for approximately $25 million. * 2005: Expanded development operations in

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, Kherson and

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;

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; and

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, China. Was delisted from India's stock market in preparation for sale. * 2006: Was acquired by

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and Sequoia Capital as part of a $900 million sales of software companies. The transaction represented the largest private equity buy-out in Indian history. * 2007: Acquired Datalinx; launched service provider offerings. * 2008: The Family Office, a multi-

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company with headquarters in Bahrain also joined in funding Aricent. * 2011: Rebranded to Aricent Group. * 2011: Opened engineering and development center for testing and wireless technologies in Vietnam * 2013: Rebranded to Aricent. * 2015: Acquired SmartPlay Technologies, a semiconductor service based firm for $180 million. As part of the deal, SmartPlay's 1,200-plus staff joined Aricent's staff. * 2018: Altran acquired Aricent, with Aricent operating as ''Altran North America'' in the Americas; * 2019:

announced plans to acquire Altran Group * 2020: Capgemini acquired Altran Group in April, with the majority of Altran staff (including most former Aricent employees) incorporated into Capgemini Engineering. Frog incorporated into Capgemini Invent.

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