Sasken Communication Technologies

Sasken Communication Technologies Limited (formerly, Silicon Automation Systems, Inc. (SAS)) is a publicly traded () company based in Bangalore, India, and offers research and development consultancy, wireless software products, software services and network engineering services to semiconductor manufacturers, wireless handset developers, network equipment and test and measurement companies, and service providers globally. According to a Business Today survey, Sasken was ranked the second best company to work for in India in 2005 (rated first in 2004).

Origin

Sasken Communication began as the brainchild of , its chairman and CEO and 3 other co-founders, Krishna Jhaveri, Suresh Dholakia, and Badru Agarwala. Sasken came into being as Silicon Automation Systems (SAS) in 1989 in a small warehouse in Fremont, California. Later the company's name was changed to Sasken Communication Technologies Limited. The name 'Sasken' is an amalgamation of its original name (SAS) and the Scottish word for knowledge, 'ken'.

Locations

Sasken operates out of its headquarters in Bangalore. Besides its Global Development Center (called Fac-Z), it also has 2 other state of art development centers in Bangalore - at Bagmane Tech Park at C V Raman Nagara (also called Fac-B)and Adarsh Prime Projects on Outer Ring Road (Fac-A). Sasken also has development centers at Chennai (Fac-C), Pune (Fac-P) and Hyderabad. Most of its offices outside India handle sales operations. Since...
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