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ERICSSON
Official Website: http://www.ericsson.com
Official about page: http://www.ericsson.com/thecompany/company_facts
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Location: HQ: Torshamnsgatan 23 Kista,Stockholm 164 83. Sweden.

Company registration no: 556016-0680

Founded: 1876
Business: Tele-Communications, GGSM, Surveillance Suite Monitoring, Advanced Deep Packet Inspection, Lawful Interception, Data Retention, Filtering
Contact
Phone: +46 10 719 00 00
Fax: +46 87 19 53 80


Background

"Ericsson offers state of the art Data Retention and Lawful Interception Solutions" . Source: ISS World

"Ericsson is the market leader in wireless network equipment and is double the size of its nearest rivals, Nokia Siemens and Huawei Technologies. Reuters

Telefonaktiebolaget L. M. Ericsson (Ericsson) is currently the world's largest mobile telecommunications equipment vendor. The company is publicly traded and sells shares of Ericsson LM-b SHA as (ERIXF:OTC US) ERIXF On Other Exchanges. Ericsson is listed on NASDAQ OMX, Stockholm and NASDAQ New York.


The company was founded in 1876. It was formerly known as LM Ericsson Telephone Company and changed its name to Ericsson in February 2012.

History of the Wallenberg family control of Ericsson

"It was primarily Marcus Wallenberg who worked out a solution to Ericsson's problems. The importance of his role at Ericsson became apparent in 1933, when he replaced his brother Jacob Wallenberg on the board of Ericsson's Italian company, where Marcus Wallenberg was often called "Mr. Ericsson".

Marcus Wallenberg's role came naturally. He had been responsible for the Kreuger loans at SEB. He established close contacts with Sosthenes Behn, president of ITT, and thus created a strong position for himself as a mediator between the two largest owners."

Ericsson is a core investment owned by Investor AB and the other Wallenberg family companies, including FAM that manages the assets along with a FAM subsidiary to administer the 20 Wallenberg Foundations, including donations.

In 2001, Investor increased its ownership in Ericsson and SEB and sold its holdings in Stora Enso, SKF and SAS in a share swap arrangement with the Wallenberg foundations<ref>[1]</ref>


History

When Ericsson was in its infancy, the founder decided to open a production facility in St. Petersburg, Russia. History


Ericsson Nikolas Tesla, Crotia distributes the AXE Switch throughout Russia since 1958, among other products and services. Wikipedia

Since 1986, Ericsson has collaborated with INTRACOM TELECOM,Thessaloniki (North Greece) facility, including the development of the AXE Switch. "The AXE S/W Development department, in cooperation with the Swedish company Ericsson, is engaged in near-shore telecommunications software development for the subscriber stage of the Ericsson AXE-10 Digital Exchanges." Intracom Telecom. See more data on AXE below, in the "Products" section.


" Ericsson is the world’s leading provider of technology and services to telecom operators. Ericsson is the leader in 2G, 3G and 4G mobile technologies, and provides support for networks with over 2 billion subscribers and has the leading position in managed services. The company’s portfolio comprises mobile and fixed network infrastructure, telecom services, software, broadband and multimedia solutions for operators, enterprises and the media industry. The Sony Ericsson and ST-Ericsson joint ventures provide consumers with feature-rich personal mobile devices."

"Ericsson is advancing its vision of being the “prime driver in an all-communicating world” through innovation, technology, and sustainable business solutions. ...

Segments: The company’s segments include;

  • Networks: segment delivers products and solutions for mobile and fixed broadband access, core networks, and transmission. The company offers 2G/GSM and 3G/ wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) mobile technologies. The company provides all- Internet Protocol (IP) 4G/long-term evolution (LTE) networks as the evolution of mobile broadband.

The company’s portfolio also includes code division multiple access (CDMA) solutions, as well as xDSL, fiber, and microwave transmission. The company's offerings include radio access solutions that interconnect with devices such as mobile phones, tablets and PCs, supporting major standardized mobile technologies; fixed access solutions for both fiber and copper, such as gigabit passive optical network (GPON) and xDSL; IP core network solutions (switching, routing and control) include softswitches, IP infrastructure for edge and core routing,

  • Multimedia

IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and Media Gateways;

Transmission/Backhaul: microwave (MINI-LINK) and optical transmission solutions for mobile and fixed networks;

Operations Support Systems (OSS) supporting operators’ management of existing networks, as well as introduction of new network architectures, technologies and services. OSS includes tools for configuration, performance monitoring, security management, inventory management and software upgrades.

Multimedia: The Multimedia segment develops and delivers software-based solutions for operations and business support systems (OSS and BSS), real-time, multi-screen, and on-demand TV and consumer and business applications.

The offering includes OSS: provisioning, device management and mediation solutions;

BSS: revenue management (prepaid, post-paid, convergent charging and billing), and customer care solutions;

TV solutions: a suite of open, standards-based products that provide digital TV, including IPTV, HDTV and interactive TV applications: the offering includes an IPTV network infrastructure solution optimized for multi-stream HD-IPTV: video compression, on-demand solutions, content management systems, advertising and interactive TV applications for operators, service providers, advertisers, and content providers;

Consumer and Business Applications: solutions include service exposure, messaging, social media connectivity, and location-based services;

M-commerce Solutions: including brokering solutions that facilitate payment and distribution of content, and Ericsson Money Services for end-to-end mobile financial services.

Enterprise market solutions include converged business communication solutions, such as the Ericsson Business Communication Suite (BCS).



  • Global Services: segment delivers managed services, consulting and systems integration, customer support and network rollout services.

The company manages complex projects with advanced IS/IT competence and multi-vendor experience, using a mix of local knowledge and global expertise. This segment’s offerings include managed services, comprising solutions for network design and planning, network operations (the management of day-to-day operations of customer networks), field operations and site maintenance, network sharing solutions, as well as shared solutions, such as hosting of platforms and applications;

Consulting and Systems Integration: technology and operational consulting, integration of multi-vendor equipment, design and integration of new solutions and handling of technology change and transformation programs, learning services and optimization services ensuring the best possible user experience;

Product-related services: network rollout services, customer support and network optimization services (optimization for performance and energy).


ST-Ericsson, a 50/50 joint venture with STMicroelectronics, ST-Ericsson offers wireless platforms and semiconductors for handset manufacturers. ST-Ericsson develops semiconductors and wireless platforms for GSM, EDGE, WCDMA, HSPA (high speed packet access), TD-SCDMA, and LTE to handset manufacturers, as well as to mobile operators and other device manufacturers. BusinessWeek ST-Ericsson has numerous Partners and Products including the NovaThor Smartphone and Platform.


  • Ericsson IPX is a non-branded service that provides mobile billing and connectivity for content via SMS, MMS, WEB and WAP, through one single interface. The premium service, IPX Payment, provides delivery and charging for Content Providers - to more than TWO billion mobile subscribers across networks in 24 countries, and new markets are being added continuously. With the non-premium service, IPX Messaging, content providers can deliver to and receive SMS messages from about 96% of all mobile subscribers worldwide.

Ericsson acquisitions/subsidries/joint ventures

"Saudi Ericsson is a partner to Ericsson, Aastra, CISCO and IPC among other brands in KSA. The company has installed hundreds of LogFinity installations on top of these global PBXs vendors, from TDM to IP. LogFinity is also integrated with many other well known PBX vendors and telephony environment. “We are happy to extend our relationship with Saudi Ericsson; 'Saudi Ericsson is a pioneer telecommunication systems supplier in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia since 1964' .” Said Waseem Al-Ghanem Founder and CEO of TeleFinity.

  • 2008: “Our extended relationship with Saudi Ericsson, which dates to years ago, illustrates the trust our reliable products have gained in the regional market. “Al-Ghanem added. Tele-Finity"


  • 2008 Aastra acquires Ericsson's shares in the company
  • 2009 Aastra Technologies signs distributorship agreement with Saudi-Ericsson Communications: "Mr. Ramzi Louza, Managing Director of Saudi Ericsson, comments, "The relationship with Aastra will strengthen our portfolio of next generation products such as open standards-based (SIP) phones and telephony systems, video conferencing solutions and multimedia contact centers. We have been delivering high quality solutions and professional services to very demanding customers in the private and public sector for many years. We are now in a unique position to support the installed Ericsson systems by maintaining and upgrading them, and offering the customers a smooth migration path towards next generation technologies such as voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP), Unified Communications (UC) and Open Standards (SIP). We have chosen a vendor who focuses on enterprise communications and who has a strong financial track record of 45 consecutive positive quarter results, something crucial in the current economical situation."

Aastra's Regional President for the Middle East and North Africa, Peter Hofman, concludes, "We believe that there is a big growth potential in the region and we are proud to have formed this business relationship with such a strong channel partner within Saudi Arabia. Saudi Ericsson has reached the highest certification level of 'Premium Distributor',..." AMEinfo



    • JUNIPER NETWORKS & ERICSSON

Ericsson has had a history in supporting Juniper Networks through complete acquisition. The partnership was created while the company was still privately owned, prior to Juniper Networks getting an IPO to sell stockshares publicly.

  • September 2, 1997: Ericsson, Nortel (Northern Telecom), the Siemens/Newbridge Alliance, 3Com, UUNET formed and investment relationship with Juniper Network, giving $56 Million usd to transform the internet. "In addition to ownership interests, the participating companies have the opportunity to integrate Juniper Networks technology with their existing product lines and services worldwide." Ericsson and Juniper form alliances with Nokia Seimens, IBM, and Dell.
  • May 16, 1999: Ericsson and Juniper Networks partnered in "a series of strategic agreements enabling the next-generation of multi-service IP network solutions. The first of the agreements was a contract that allows Ericsson full rights to distribute immediately the M40 Internet backbone router as the Ericsson AXI 520. The Ericsson/Juniper cooperation allows carriers and ISPs to take advantage of Ericsson's systems integration and turn-key support, global distribution and professional services, while benefiting from Juniper Networks extensive IP backbone routing experience.

" The aim of the joint venture is to manage data communications between mobile phone networks and Internet Protocol (IP) networks. All hardware manufactured by the joint venture will be sold exclusively by Ericsson. Ericsson will be the lead partner in the venture, owning 60 percent, the companies said. A board made up of Ericsson and Juniper representatives, to start, will select a chief executive from Ericsson and a chief operating officer from Juniper, company representatives said. The joint venture is expected to be formed in the first quarter of 2001." 2000: As part of both companies' interest in developing integrated IP solutions, the two also have signed a cooperative technology agreement to explore converging opportunities in voice and IP. Separately Ericsson has increased its minority equity interest in Juniper Networks and taken a position on Juniper Networks Board".

In 2001, Ericsson and Juniper Networks formed a joint venture to "deliver mobile Internet routing products to be sold exclusively by Ericsson, and will ensure product availability for ISPs and mobile operators building GPRS and 3G systems." We have long been a supplier of the technology that forms the basis for the very successful Ericsson GGSN, the most broadly deployed mobile packet gateway in the industry. Juniper

  • 2006 Ericsson buying Juniper "Apparently, Juniper is getting a big win in China, but under the cover of Ericsson. In case you missed it – Juniper won a $120 million contract from Microsoft (over two years.)" and "According to reporting from Telephony Online's Ed Gubbins, Verizon's principal hardware provider for FiOS is Juniper Networks. In fact, Gubbins reports, Verizon contributes 13% of Juniper's total revenue, and may be the sole reason why that company found black ink again last year. Juniper's E-series routers service Verizon's broadband network. Last October, Juniper announced a major upgrade to its routers' operating system, adding features that included the capability for service providers to deploy deep packet inspection -- the ability to analyze Internet traffic based on its contents.

The Aug 2009 version of Juniper's router software for E-series routers, called JUNOSe has marketed the DPI version as part of its "Intelligent Services Edge" portfolio, which it described as "leveraging a single, consistent operating system and high-performance hardware to flexibly deliver many service types -- including broadband routing, voice, multimedia and integrated security, as well as application-level awareness... "

Juniper Network product, JUNOS FIPS requires a licence and is strictly forbidden in Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Sudan or Syria, due to its strong encryption abilities. While forbidded, support is apparently provided through AX411 Access Point Country and Channel Support - Technical Documentation For more information see Ericsson and Juniper Networks (US) Juniper Networks STRM has DPI Blue cabinet/Juniper Network


  • 1999 Ericsson Acquires Torrent Networking Technologies BusinessWire


  • May 31, 2000: Ericsson partnered with Investor AB (Sweden) and Hutchinson-Whampoa Ltd (Hong Kong). Ericsson's acquisition was for controlling interest in Guoco Land Limited (the Company), a company listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong. The name of the company is to be changed to "imGO" and will "invest in telecommunication-related technologies, wireless Internet enabling technologies, software applications, hardware (devices and terminals), wireless content providers and broadband infrastructure." Investor AB and Hutchinson-Whampoa Ltd. also partnered on the company "3" brand, known also as hi3G and 3G. "The company's portfolio comprises mobile and fixed network infrastructure, and broadband and multimedia solutions for operators, enterprises and developers. The Sony Ericsson joint venture provides consumers with feature-rich personal mobile devices." See also Ericsson, Investor AB, Hutchinson-Whampoa Ltd. and Guoco Land Limited("imGO") in Blue cabinet/INVESTOR AB


  • 2000 Ericsson invests in Merrimac "made an agreement in which Ericsson has purchased 375,000 newly issued shares of Merrimac common stock, representing approximately 17.5% of Merrimac’s outstanding common stock, at a price of $9.00 per share. This agreement gives Ericsson Microelectronics priority access to Merrimac’s patent-pending Multi-Mix® Microtechnology, a new, innovative process for microwave, multilayer integrated circuits and modules to be used in present and future mobile telecom applications."


  • 2005: Ericsson "paid $2.1 billion to buy Marconi,a purchase that enabled it to begin offering fixed-line network products alongside its own wireless gear... Last month, the company said it would cut as many as 400 jobs at its Swedish headquarters in a cost-cutting measure. Those cuts still left the company with more than 50,000 employees worldwide, including those employed by the Sony Ericsson joint venture, which makes mobile phone handsets.

Marconi Company Wikipedia Marconi sells to Ericsson BBC News Ericsson Marconi OMS List of Marconi products and systems more Product details


  • 2005: Ericsson acquires Skystream Networks [2]


  • 2006 Ericsson sells their portion of Ruag to Saab Group another "Core" company held by "Investor AB" owned by the Wallenburg familyof Sweden. In addition, Jacob Wallenberg is on the board of Ericsson and Marcus Wallenberg on the board of Saab Group. Investor AB is controlling owner of Ericsson and Saab group, therefore it appears that they still have controlling ownership of the corporation known as RUAG Space AB.

In regards to a more current technological project, there was "a joint venture between SAAB and Ericsson as Saab Ericsson Space until Ericsson sold its stake to SAAB together with Saab Microwave Systems in 2006." Ruag "RUAG Space AB specializes in related equipment, for example on board computer systems, antennas and microwave electronics for satellites and adapters and separation systems for launchers. The company headquarters is located in Gothenburg, Sweden..."


  • 2007 Ericssson today announced its acquisition of fiber access equipment vendor Entrisphere. ConnectedPlanet


  • 2006-07: Ericsson acquires Redback using Redback SmartEdge technology to build its gateways.

"Ericsson will acquire Redback Networks, which makes routers used by telecom carriers to direct data traffic... Redback competes with Juniper Networks (Nasdaq: JNPR) and Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO). .. Plans call for Redback to retain its management team and operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ericsson. ... With Redback, Ericsson is extending a buying spree of its own. A year ago, it paid $2.1 billion to buy Marconi..."


  • June 2007: Ericsson acquires Drutt Corporation provider of Service Delivery Platform (SDP) and MSDP (Mobile Service Delivery Platform) an end-to-end multi-channel solution. Drutt Corporation has subsidiaries in Sweden, China, Canada and Mexico and is owned by Provider Venture Partners Funds, TeliaSonera and certain employees. The company employs about 85 people and more than 90 percent of the employees reside in Sweden, where the global operations are located. Appears that Ericsson may have acquired Drutt and their MSDP to use for 3G (hi3G) Skandinavia.




  • October 2009: Ericsson and TeliaSonera video partnership on LTE and 4G

"Ericsson provides TeliaSonera with an LTE system (4G), including LTE Radio Base stations, which are part of the new RBS6000 series, an Evolved Packet Core network and mobile backhaul solution - including Redback's SmartEdge® 1200 routers and the latest EDA multi-access aggregation switch. The LTE system is based on 3GPP standards for Long-Term Evolution radio technology and System Architecture Evolution (SAE) core technology. LTE is a continued evolution of GSM/CDMA/WCDMA/TD-SCDMA (i.e. 2G and 3G) mobile networks and is an integrated part of Ericsson 's Full Service Broadband offering. Ericsson offers high capacity radio access (LTE), high capacity EDA multi-access edge routers, evolved packet core networks (SAE), multimedia communication with IMS and high capacity, low-cost carrier Ethernet transport. Through its work in standardization bodies and its own development, Ericsson is also a strong player in the large ecosystem of mobile broadband enabled devices." Zawya see also Blue cabinet/TeliaSonera


    • Nortel and Ericsson

Since 2009, Ericsson has been buying up Nortel, piece-by-piece CurrentAnalysis Bloomberg

  • Nov 13, 2009: Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) today completed its acquisition of substantially all of Nortel's CDMA business and LTE assets in North America. With this acquisition,Ericsson
  • July 2011: Ericsson company acquired certain assets of the Guangdong Nortel Telecommunication Equipment Company Ltdincluding certain assets of Nortel’s Multiservice Switch business, which provides access to a product portfolio and installed base in the data segment. Los Angeles Times


  • December 2010: Ericsson acquires full ownership of Optimi Corporation, a US-Spanish telecommunications vendor providing products and services within the networks optimization and management sector with a strong focus on operations-support-systems(OSS) based optimization services - to leading clients in telecommunications. This company acquisition was not surprising since in 2006 Telefónica de España selected Ericsson "as supplier for its metro DWDM optical network. The new network will be a cornerstone of the next generation transport network of Telefónica in Spain...Using Ericsson's Multihaul WDM solution, Telefónica can deliver efficient high-speed data, storage, video, and voice services with outstanding bandwidth utilization and quality of services. Thanks to its modular architecture, this multihaul solution adapts to any network needs from the edge to the core, reducing network complexity and cost of ownership. This contract highlights the benefits of the Marconi acquisition to Ericsson's customers. Both fixed and mobile operators value having a strategic partner and a provider of end-to-end solutions - including broadband access, leading-edge microwave and optical transport networks.


  • 2010 As of February 9, 2010, Ericsson is registered as owner of 100% of the shares in LHS AG.



    • Telenor and Ericsson
  • February 2011: Ericsson launch of Ericsson's Device Connection Platform, a service it plans to sell telecom operators (see below acquisition of Telenor Connexion).
  • April 2011: Ericsson acquired Telenor Connexion's machine-to-machine (M2M) platform, in an effort to get more technology and know-how... Telenor Connexion is wholly owned by Norwegian operator Telenor Group...The deal follows the February launch of Ericsson's Device Connection Platform, a service it plans to sell telecom operators, which in turn will set up M2M applications for their enterprise customers. The platform is sold as a cloud service, offering operators the traditional cloud benefits of a low initial investment and a fast roll-out. Telenor Connexion will become Ericsson's first Device Connection Platform customer.


  • 2011 "Skorpios Technologies Inc., a 2009 startup developing composite silicon photonic technology as announced it has closed a $19 million Series B round of financing.

Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Networks and other unnamed communications companies particopated in the funding round, as did previous investors Cottonwood Technology Fund and Sun Mountain Capital. The money is to be used to complete the commercialization of the technology and expansion of the company infrastructure, said Skorpios (Albuquerque, N.M.)." eetimes


    • Telecordia and Ericsson
  • January 2012: Telcordia is part of Ericsson According to Network Critical, Telecordia is filtering. The Telecordia OSS is now known as Ericsson Telecordia OSS. Telcordia Technologies is responsible for the administration and assignment of SS7 point codes in the United States and other North American Numbering Plan (NANP) countries. For international point codes, please contact..."
    • In addition Telecordia and Kajeet have partnered in the GSMA product "Sentinel" that allows censorship through the blocking of cell and online sites, while also intercepting and collecting data for analysis. The "Sentinel" product is being marketed as an educational tool to give teachers control over students and for parents.



  • 2012 LG Ericsson and Ericsson
  • Increases ownership from 50% plus one share, to 75%
  • Ownership in LG-Ericsson has successfully established Ericsson in the Korean market

Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) today announced it has acquired additional shares in LG- Ericsson. Before the purchase, Ericsson held 50% of the shares plus one share. After the share purchase, Ericsson holds 75% of the shares in LG-Ericsson. LG-Ericsson is a joint venture between LG Electronics and Ericsson in which Ericsson acquired Nortel's part of the company in July 2010. "

Products

Surveillance Suite Monitoring, Lawful Interception, Data Retention, Advanced Deep Packet Inspection (DPI/DCI)

Advanced Deep Packet Inspection

"Ericsson Evolved Packet Gateway fulfills future expectations in terms of multi-terabit throughput capabilities, traffic management, deep packet inspection and subscriber density. The Evolved Packet Gateway is available on current platforms as well as the new Smart Services Router."

"Existing Ericsson GGSN nodes can easily be upgraded to Evolved Packet Gateways, supporting LTE users as well. They are fully backwards compatible to an existing GSM/WCDMA GGSN and support a large number of PDP contexts and wide range of features, including deep packet inspection."

  • Video - Ericsson and TeliaSonera use Advanced Deep Packet Inspection (PacketCore)

Lawful Intercept

  • * LI/Ericsson Interception Management System (IMS)

Guide File:Ericsson IMS USER MANUAL.pdf

  • Ericsson Automatic Data Retention Solution (ADRS)

Lawful Intercept not so "lawful" without a warrant. Ericsson patent relies on user to obtain the warrant, because equipment doesn't.

Ericsson Automatic Data Retention Solution (ADRS) to order queries on some target users are traced, so it is possible for the supervisor to verify if some query has been ordered with no warrant, or in a way not consistent with the original authorization. A problem in the current lawful interception and data retention solutions' arises from the fact that an unauthorized use of the systems, that is an interception or a query on retained data performed without a granted warrant, may be detected only after the unauthorized use has been performed.

In other words a command to set a target of interception or a query on some target users may be performed even if a warrant has not been granted, and these unauthorized activities may go on until a supervisor detects the situation." sumobrain


Ericsson Automatic Data Retention Solution(ADRS) for Law Enforcement Agencies (LEA) Download

"ADRS is available in many configurations and sizes to fit different requirements for functionality, capacity and operations. ADRS can be deployed as a multi-tenant solution where a number of CSPs share the ADRS. A multi-tenant ADRS could also be used as a data retention service bureau (Hosting) where a Trusted Third Party (TTP) offers data-retention capacity to a number of CSPs... LEA client: a powerful and efficient tool for authorities to search and retrieve data, both from ADRS and from other vendors’ data-retention solutions."


  • Wiretapping Switch AXE

AXE is an acronym for Automatic Cross-Connection Equipment.

The AXE is the digital successor to the AKE analogue telephone exchange and ARF/ARM family of crossbar switches. The design is modular with an APZ dual processor running in sync mode, an APT switching part and an APG I/O part. It is used for connecting local landlines, operate mobile networks (TDMA, GSM, CDMA, W-CDMA, PDC), international telephony traffic and signaling.

Developed in 1974 by Ellemtel, a research and development subsidiary of Ericsson and Televerket, the AXE telephone exchange line of circuit switched digital telephone exchanges manufactured by Ericsson that was used in 1976. History of the Ericsson AXE.

AXE Enabler 1.0 for fixed circuit-switched networks... is implemented in all network layers (local and transit exchanges, international gateways, signaling transfer points, service switching points and operator exchanges), enabling a single application system for the complete TDM network. AXE Enabler 1.0 includes the latest hardware generation, AXE 810.

Ericsson's AXE has been deployed in 145 countries, supporting 180 million lines, distributed over 6000 exchanges.

AXE Enabler 1.0 is being used by Syrian Telecom

see more on AXE on Scribed

"AXE based equipment are being used as BSC/TRC, MSC, HLR, SCP, FNR, TSC and wireline nodes.

The brain of the AXE system is a dual processor system called APZ. It runs in parallel sync mode making it fault redundant. The family of APZs started with APZ 210 03 in 1976; the latest one is APZ 212 60. The parallel sync mode was partly abandoned in the APZ 212 40 and subsequent models and has been replaced with a warm standby scheme.

The latest APZ type is 214 03 which is use as MSC, TSC and HLR Blade in AXE. The latest implementation of AXE is on a blade cluster system capable of handling up to 8 million subscribers.

The core of the switching part was the Group Switch, initially a time-space-time multiplexer capable of switching up to 64K positions or connections. This Group Switch later evolved to a Distributed Group Switch using Time-Space switching technique with a maximum capacity of 512K.

AXE nodes have evolved as a traffic controller, having the new Media Gateway node running on CPP platform handle the payload traffic.

Ericsson AXE telephone exchanges support lawful intercepts via the remote-control equipment subsystem (RES), which carries out the tap, and the interception management system (IMS), software used for initiating the tap, which adds the tap to the RES database. In a fully operating lawful interception system the RES and IMS both create logs of all numbers being tapped so that system administrators can perform audits to find unauthorized taps.

Ericsson AXE-10 Data sheets

Code is written in PLEX (a proprietary language tied to the AXE hardware, designed by Göran Hemdahl),[2] SDL and ASA210C programming languages. Code for Regional Processors (controlling hardware Extension Modules) is written in ASA210R."


  • Telecordia and Kajeet have partnered in the GSMA product "Sentinel" that allows censorship through the blocking of cell and online sites, while also interceptiong and collecting data for analysis. The "Sentinel" product is being marketed as an educational tool to give teachers control over students and for parents.


  • LEA Client download LEA client: a powerful and efficient tool for authorities to search and retrieve data, both from ADRS and from other vendors’ data-retention solutions.

RHDI interface: allows any LEA equipment secure access to ADRS for the search and retrieval of data Integrated mediation: processes data from any network element or data source.


  • Ericsson MultiHaul WDM

The Ericsson MultiHaul WDM solution (Marconi branded MHL 3000) provides a cost effective and manageable multi-haul platform to support multi-services, multiple network topologies and transparency protocols in metro, regional and long haul networks; allowing service providers to maximize the bandwidth and service flexibility of their metropolitan networks, while supporting new revenue opportunities of high speed Data services, TV distribution, VoD and VoIP.

MultiHaul solution provides an automatic, robust, effective and easy-to-control system for effective metro services, simplifying network planning, commissioning and maintenance. Embedded control scheme enable service provider to forget the network once installed since the network automatically react any faults or inefficiency.

Countries Using Products

Ericsson is in 180 countries.

Ericsson "operates worldwide and reports its operations divided into 10 regions: North America; Latin America; northern Europe and central Asia; western and central Europe; Mediterranean; the Middle East; Sub-Saharan Africa; India; China and north east Asia; and south east Asia and Oceania." BusinessWeek


"Ericsson's AXE has been deployed in 145 countries, supporting 180 million lines, distributed over 6000 exchanges." Ericsson


  • L.M Ericsson of Sweden has been enabled to dominate telecommunications and the sales of information technology (IT) throughout the Middle East through their joint venture with E. A. Juffali & Brothers in the July 1, 1980 creation of Saudi Ericsson, taking over the activities of EPPCO, a pioneer in the supply of telecommunication systems in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia since 1964. Saudi Ericsson is able to service its large customer base through a well established infrastructure of three main branches; Riyadh, Jeddah, and Dammam, supported by 360 professional employees.


Ericsson webpage hides the reality that they are in Bahrain

  • 2012: Ericsson and Huawei providing tech services in Bahrain to Batelco AMEinfo * 2002: Ericsson and Batelco contracts AMEinfo


  • Kuwait since 1965, providing advanced systems in the Middle East.

Affluent as a result of oil income, Kuwait invested in technically advanced products. Ericsson

  • Ericsson has been in Lebanon (Libya) since the 1950's.
  • Ericsson in SYRIAaccording to Reuters 2012 news. (see also Mobilk)

Ericsson - Syria Ericsson is a provider of telecommunications equipment and related services to mobile and fixed network operating in Syria.

  • Ericsson receives a 5 year contract from Zain for the Middle East - IRAQ
  • Ericsson receives a 5 year contract from Zain for Nigeria and Mtel is a subsidery of Nitel and Ericsson has partnered with Syntel to acquire Nitel, based in Nigeria.
  • Ericsson is under investigation for selling mobile telephony surveillance equipment to Iran, according to reports in Dagens Nyheter.
  • DN.se reported in 2010 that Ericsson has supplied wiretapping equipment to Belarus. On April 23,2012, the Swedish newspaper DE.se reported once again that Ericsson provided equipment to the Belarus dictatorship for monitoring phones and the internet. At last this news provoked a response of immorality by Swedish politicians, including the right wing.


  • Greecegovt used Vodafone and Ericsson AXE for wiretapping.

Tech and Business Partnerships

Ericsson's portfolio comprises mobile and fixed network infrastructure, telecom services, software, broadband and multimedia solutions for operators, enterprises and the media industry.

  • 1987: INTRACOM TELECOM, Greece (Thessaloniki Branch Office) collaborates with ERICSSON, including the development of the ERICSSON AXE Switch.
  • 1990: "Ericsson has been the major supplier of GSM systems to Telia Mobitel since 1990 when the first GSM contract was signed..." Find Articles
  • 1996: Telia Mobitel with Ericsson made a new agreement as "a result of this long-term cooperation between the two companies." Find Articles


  • 2002-2009 Ericsson's Infrastructure Contracts worldwide Mobileisgood


  • 2005 "Sakhr Software Co., the pioneering Arabic IT company, announced that it has signed a contract with Saudi Ericsson whereby the Saudi-Swedish company will have exclusive marketing and selling rights throughout KSA of Sakhr ALLO software for inbound and outbound telephone calls using the latest speech technologies..." Zawya About owner of Sakhr Sofware
  • 2005 "Libya's largest operator, Al Madar, has chosen Ericsson's Mobile Softswitch solution for a major expansion of its capacity and coverage..."


  • 2007 Russian telecom MTS in partnership with Ericsson to upgrade Russian operator MTS's network to the latest 3G technology.2012 video


  • 2008 Continued collaboration with SUN "The Application Competition is designed to award the best IMS client-server application using Sun Project SailFin and Ericsson Service Development Studio. This is continuation of a collaboration agreement between Sun and Ericsson to develop an open source Java technology-based multimedia application server as well as a supporting program for the developer community."



  • 2009: Sprint and Ericsson partnership. video " Under Network Advantage, Ericsson assumes responsibility for the day-to-day services, provisioning, and maintenance of all Sprint-owned wireless and wireline networks. It enables Sprint to focus more on delivering a superior customer experience, innovative services and popular new devices -- all while realizing cost and efficiency improvements." See also news story about Sprint, Verizon and AT&T wiretapping in the USA Forbes 4.3.2012 and that AT&T and Verizon use Ericsson/Redback


  • 2009 Ericsson and MTS Russia announced the launch of Mobile WAP Portal based on Ericsson Mobile Services Delivery Platform (MSDP) MTS Belarus Artyom Vasiliev, Deputy General Director on commercial issues of MTS-Belarus said: В«MTS and Ericsson are actively collaborating in the area of new technologies,..."[3]


  • 2010 "MTN Syria Signs an Agreement with Ericsson for New High-Tech multi-standard base stations" Green TMC


  • 2010 Ericsson and AT&T in a multi-year agreement and partnership.


  • 2010 T-Mobile USA and Ericsson deploy next-generation mobile switching technology







  • 2011 Ericsson taps NetComm for NBN devices zdnet
  • 2011 Ericsson taps Visionstream for NBN wireless zdnet


  • 2012: Ericsson strengthens LTE partnership with South Korea (SK) Telecom BusinessWeek


Ericsson to Manage MTel Si.mobile networks



  • Aitel Zambia is part of the division Airtel Africa who has signed a five-year managed services agreement with Ericsson in order to manage and optimize Airtel’s mobile networks in Africa. Ericsson will modernize and upgrade Airtel’s mobile networks in Africa with the latest technology including its multi standard RBS 6000 base station.As part of the modernization. Ericsson will also provide technology consulting, network planning & design and network deployment. ITU


  • Akamai and Ericsson Partnership


  • Ericsson Telecordia is an OSS Partner with Huawei

Reports

  • 10.16.2012 Ericsson CTO : big-data era calls for network innovation; Smartphones and big data call for innovation in networking technology; Ericsson focuses on 4th-generation (4G) IP networking, service provider software-defined networking (SDN), OSS/BSS, real-time analytics and heterogeneous networks
  • "Crypto AG: The NSA's Trojan Whore" Mediafilter includes references to Ericsson
  • Ericsson fined $1.75 million USD for 262 violations of federal regulations for shipments to Cuba Afterdawn 5.28.2012
  • "Swedish companies in non-democratic countries: Politicians call for responsibility at Ericsson and TeliaSonera DE.se 4.23.2012
  • "Sweden keeps Syrian telecoms firms off EU sanctions list" by David Brunnstrom and Anna Ringstrom Reuters 12.2.2011
  • "Sweden stopped EU sanctions against Syria (see the Ericsson factor) Stockholm News
  • "MTN Syria Signs an Agreement with Ericsson for New High-Tech multi-standard base stations" Green TMC 2.17.10
  • "European union bans exports to Syria of systems for monitoring web phones" Bloomberg 12.1.2011
  • Bloomberg "Iranian Police Seizing Dissidents get aid of western companies"
  • Stockholm Embassy cable revealing that Ericsson and other "core businesses" of Investor AB do not want to abide by UN/EU sanction on tech to Iran.
  • Ericsson has a wireless kill switch for laptops arstechnica
  • It’s official: Ericsson is now building every major LTE network in the U.S. Gigaom

People Responsible

  • Anders Lindblad, President of Ericsson Region Middle East

Board of Directors

Some of the people responsible for the decisions and actions made by Ericsson include the Board Members of Ericsson,Investor ABand Wallenbergs Foundation Asset Management (FAM).


Managers

United Kingdom Telecommunications July 2012 – Present (4 months) London, United Kingdom

• Field maintenance work on Vodafone network in the London area during the Olympic games

• Fault recognition and rectification on Ericsson RBS, Siemens SRAL, Nokia BTS and other


Field Maintenance Engineer- Etisalat project Ericsson Egypt Ltd. (EEL)

January 2010 – Present (2 years 10 months)

- Perform corrective on-site maintenance activities according to Work Order (Trouble ticket) received

- Troubleshooting for following Ericsson equipment

TN ( Traffic Node R4 ), 2G RBS 3G RBS

- Perform preventive on-site maintenance activities according to defined Preventive Maintenance schedule - Snag check - Perform replacement for low performance equipment according to Performance Work Order - Radio network testing/ checking using TEMS - Manage FM spare parts and coordinate spare parts replacement and faulty parts handling with Spare Part Management Service (SPMS) team - Support Ericsson/Customer ASPs in completing their activities

OTHER

Sources

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