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Friday 9th March 2012 marked the end of my twelve year career at Tellabs. Next Monday I will start with new challenges at Ericsson.
Almost exactly 12 years ago I left Nokia Networks (now NSN) and started to work at the Managed Access Systems (MAS) product house, at the Systems Engineering & Product Planning department. The acronym for our department was “SEPP”, which we joked to mean “Simple Excel and Power Point” – well, we actually can use Word and many other “more complex” tools too 
. In this department I worked for the whole time of my career in Tellabs and my role was to manage the hardware platform of the MAS products, first the older 8100 and then the new 8600 platform.
Tellabs OY at Finland was originally a Finnish company called Martis OY, which was acquired by the American Tellabs INC in 1993. The reason for acquiring Martis was the Martis DXX system, which was later called the “Tellabs 8100″. The DXX was and amazingly still continues to be a very succesful product, and it has generated a revenue worth of billions of Dollars/Euros (and still continues to sell). However, in year 2000 we already thought that it was going to be obsolete, being a circuit switched TDM system, and so we started to develop a completely new packet switched product platform, then called the “BBIP” and now known as the “Tellabs 8600 system”. The 8600 was to be a managed packet switching system, and eventually it too became a hugely successfull product and the market leader in mobile backhaul. Today it is one of the best revenue generating products of Tellabs.
The people at Tellabs are truly high caliber and talented professionals, and I really enjoyed working with a community of such outstanding team. I will really miss you all. I wish all the best for my former colleagues at Tellabs.
But life must go on, and new challenges must met and taller mountains must be conquered, so I am looking forward to start something exiting and new at my next company….
Continue reading / Jatka lukemista: Goodbye Tellabs – Näkemiin Tellabs
