ADTRAN

Type	Public (NASDAQ: ADTN)
Founded	1986
Headquarters	Huntsville, Alabama,[1] USA
Key people	Tom Stanton, CEO
Industry	Communication Equipment
Revenue	▲$476 million (2007)
Employees	1,800
Website	www.adtran.com

ADTRAN, Inc. is a provider of networking and communications equipment for use in the "last mile" of telecommunications networks. Its headquarters are in Huntsville, Alabama.^[2]

The company is ISO 9001 and TL9000 certified.^[3] ADTRAN was a NASDAQ-100 Index stock from 1996 to 1998.^[4] It was #85 on BusinessWeek's 100 "Hot Growth Companies" list in 2006.^[2]

[edit] Corporate History

ADTRAN was founded by Mark C. Smith^[5] and Lonnie McMillian,^[6] and began operations in 1986.^[2] The AT&T divestiture of the Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs), with restrictions that effectively barred their manufacturing of equipment, created an opportunity for companies such as ADTRAN to supply network equipment, both to the seven RBOCs and the new and independent telephone companies in the United States.

ADTRAN adapted telephony technology for use in enterprise wide area networks. ADTRAN has become a supplier of local loop access and deployment products for fiber, DS3, T1/E1, wireless T1/E1, Digital Subscriber Line (HDSL, HDSL2, HDSL4, SDSL, SHDSL), Frame Relay, Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN), and Digital Data Service (DDS) digital services. ADTRAN supplies multiservice access platforms and Integrated Access Devices (IADs) for converged voice and data networks.

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[edit] External links

• ADTRAN Official site

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