13 Facts About Tellabs

Tellabs, Inc is a global network technology provider providing services to both private and governmental agencies.

Tellabs went public in July 1980, ending the year with sales of $43.

In September 1981, Tellabs introduced the industry's first echo canceller, an advance over the original echo suppressors that synthesized an echo and electronically subtracted it.

Tellabs made several acquisitions and expanded globally in the 1980s and into the 1990s, including Coherent Communications Systems Corp.

In January 2008, Tellabs announced that it was cutting 225 jobs during the year.

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Tellabs internally promoted Robert W Pullen, who had 23 years of varied experience at Tellabs, to succeed Pradhu as chief executive and president effective March 1,2008.

Tellabs was chairman of the executive board of Telecommunications Industry Association.

In 2009 Tellabs acquired WiChorus, a San-Jose based Silicon Valley start-up with a mobile packet core platform, a decision that led to the decline of their data business.

In 2013, Tellabs was acquired by Marlin Equity Partners, a global investment company.

The Optical Transport, Metro Ethernet and Mobility business units of Tellabs were spun off into Coriant, a separate company owned by Marlin Equity.

In December 2019, Tellabs announced that Rich Schroder had been appointed president and Chief Executive Officer.

Tellabs describes its PON Manager as helping define LAN resources in software and then dynamically allocate them, based on real-time requirements.

Tellabs offers three services: Professional Network Services, which it describes as providing support at all stages of the network life cycle, Technical Support Services, which offers a variety of technical support agreement options to meet the specific needs of organization's network, and Network Training Services, which offers a variety of network training programs to keep staff up to date to support all phases of network's life cycle.