Nokia Siemens Networks
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| Type | Joint venture |
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| Founded | 2007 |
| Headquarters |  Espoo, Finland |
| Key people | Simon Beresford-Wylie, CEO Luca Maestri, CFO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, Chairman |
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Parent | Nokia Oyj (50%) Siemens AG (50%) |
| Website | nokiasiemensnetworks.com |
Nokia Siemens Networks is one of the largest telecommunications solutions suppliers in the world. Nokia Siemens Networks was created as the result of a joint venture between Siemens AG's COM division (minus its Enterprise business unit) and Nokia's Network Business Group.
The new company was announced on 19 June 2006. Nokia Siemens Networks was officially launched at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona in February 2007.[1][2] Nokia Siemens Networks then began full operations on 1 April 2007[3] and has its headquarters in Espoo, Greater Helsinki, Finland, while the West-South Europe headquarters and three of its five divisions are based in Munich, Germany. The Services division is based in India. Nokia Siemens Networks has operations in some 150 countries.[4]
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[edit] General
Nokia Siemens Networks operates in approximately 200 countries worldwide, and has about 60,000 employees. Its major manufacturing sites are in China, Finland, Germany and India. About 1 billion people are connected through its networks.
The customer base of Nokia Siemens Networks includes 1,400 customers in 150 countries (including more than 600 operator customers).
It is foreseen that, at a combined 2005 revenue of more than € 15 billion, the new company would be one of the largest telecommunication equipment makers in the world.
Simon Beresford-Wylie, former Executive Vice President and General Manager of Nokia’s Networks unit, is Nokia Siemens Networks' Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Nokia Siemens Networks' Chief Financial Officer (CFO) is Luca Maestri. The Chairman of the board of directors is Nokia's CEO Olli Pekka Kallasvuo, vice chairman is Rudi Lamprecht (Executive Advisor to the CEO of Siemens AG).[5]
[edit] Controversy
In 2008 Nokia Siemens Networks provided Iran's monopoly telecom company with technology that allowed it to intercept the internet communications of its citizens to an unprecedented degree.[6] The technology allowed it to use 'deep packet inspection' to read and even change the content of everything from "emails and internet phone calls to images and messages on social-networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter". The technology "enables authorities to not only block communication but to monitor it to gather information about individuals, as well as alter it for disinformation purposes" expert insiders told the Wall Street Journal. During the post-election protests in Iran in June 2009, Iran's internet access was reported to have slowed to less than a tenth of its normal speeds, and experts suspected this was due to the use of the interception technology.[7]
The restricted functionality monitoring center provided by Nokia Siemens Networks in Iran cannot provide data monitoring, internet monitoring, deep packet inspection, international call monitoring or speech recognition. Therefore, contrary to speculation in the media, the technology supplied by Nokia Siemens Networks cannot be used for the monitoring or censorship of internet traffic.
However Nokia Siemens Networks suggested that such sophisticated system does not exist, the only capability of the monitoring system is to intercept voice calls on 3GPP standard, which is also virtually a normal practice in most other countries including the United States and European Union.[8] Others, including former Nokia executive and now law professor Chip Pitts (at www.csrlaw.org) have suggested that text as well as voice continue to be intercepted, and that issues are raised even were Nokia Siemens Networks to have provided merely a voice monitoring capability.
[edit] Portfolio
Solutions for your business
Communication for Service Providers
- Customer care support
- Device management
- Fixed-mobile convergence
- Hosting
- Integrated provisioning
- Inventory management
- IPTV
- Mobile backhaul
- Mobile TV
- Outsourcing
- Unified charging and billing
- WCDMA frequency refarming solution
Solutions for public and corporate
- Air and maritime solutions
- Government solutions
- Railway solutions
- More about public and corporate solutions
[edit] Organisation
Business Units
The main Business Units of Nokia Siemens Networks are
- Radio access
- Broadband connectivity solutions
- Converged core
- Operations and business software
- Services
The Board of Directors
- Chairman: Olli Pekka Kallasvuo
- Vice Chairman: Rudi Lamprecht
- Juha Äkräs
- Joe Kaeser
- Siegfried Russwurm
- Niklas Savander
- Rick Simonson
Executive Board[9]
- Chief Executive Officer: Simon Beresford-Wylie
- Chief Market Operations Officer (CMO): Bosco Novák
- Chief Financial Officer (CFO): Luca Maestri
- Chief Operating Officer (COO): Mika Vehviläinen
- Head of Marketing and Communications: Barry French
- Head of Corporate Affairs: Lauri Kivinen
- General Counsel: Kirsi Komi
- Head of Strategy and Business Development: Michael Matthews
- Head of Operations: Herbert Merz
- Head of Human Resources: Hans-Jürgen Bill
- Head of Corporate Development Office: Pekka Soini
- Head of Services: Rajeev Suri
[edit] Acquisitions
- In January 2008 Nokia Siemens Networks acquired Atrica, a company that builds carrier-class Ethernet transport systems for metro networks. The official release did not disclose terms, however they are thought to be in the region of $100 million.[10][11]
- In February 2008 Nokia Siemens Networks acquired Apertio, Bristol UK-based, a mobile network customer management tools provider for €140 million. With this acqusition Nokia Siemens Networks gained customers in the subscriber management area including Orange, T-Mobile, O2 and Vodafone.[12][13][14]
- In June 2009 Nokia Siemens Networks announced it will buy Canada-based Nortel Networks' wireless units. With this purchase Nokia Siemens Networks plans to strengthen their position in the LTE market and improve their foothold in North America.[15]
[edit] References
- ^ Brand New: The Wave of the Future
- ^ Identityworks: Reviews - 2007 - Nokia Siemens
- ^ Nokia - ShowPressRelease
- ^ "Nokia Siemens Networks Fact Sheet" (PDF). Nokia Siemens Networks. http://www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com/NR/rdonlyres/79BA3656-FD19-453F-984C-199A3B8AC79F/0/Factsheet_21March.pdf. Retrieved on 2007-07-09.
- ^ Nokia - ShowPressRelease
- ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8112550.stm
- ^ http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124562668777335653.html#mod
- ^ http://www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com/global/Press/Press+releases/news-archive/Provision+of+Lawful+Intercept+capability+in+Iran.htm
- ^ Executive Board checked on 24th of June, 2009.
- ^ "Nokia Siemens Networks acquires Atrica, Ethernet systems company" (HTML). Venturebeat. http://venturebeat.com/2007/10/26/nokia-siemens-networks-acquires-atrica-ethernet-systems-company-for-a-loss/. Retrieved on 2008-10-28.
- ^ "Nokia Siemens Networks Completes Acquisition of Carrier Ethernet Specialist Atrica" (HTML). Nokia Siemens Networks. http://www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com/global/Press/Press+releases/news-archive/Nokia_Siemens_Networks_Completes_Acquisition_of_Carrier_Ethernet_Specialist_Atrica_Inc.htm. Retrieved on 2008-10-28.
- ^ "Nokia Siemens Networks Apertio Acquisition Press Release" (HTML). Nokia Siemens Networks. http://www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com/global/Press/Press+releases/news-archive/Nokia_Siemens_Networks_completes_acquisition_of_subscriber-centric_network_specialist_Apertio.htm. Retrieved on 2008-10-28.
- ^ "Apertio Press Release on Nokia Siemens Networks acquisition" (HTML). Apertio. http://www.apertio.com/news-and-events/nsn-apertio. Retrieved on 2008-10-28.
- ^ "The Register article on Nokia Siemens Networks acquisition of Apertio" (HTML). The Register News. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/03/nokia_apertio/. Retrieved on 2008-10-28.
- ^ "Nokia Siemens in deal to buy Nortel wireless units" (HTML). HuffingtonPost. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20090620/eu-finland-nokia-siemens-nortel/. Retrieved on 2009-06-20.
