Industry Cluster: ichardson,T exas Communications Economic Development Partnership

Richardson, , known naonally and internaonally as the Telecom Corridor ® area, has one of the most significant and unique high tech business concentraons of communicaons companies in the US.

Major Telecom OperaƟons in Richardson:

AT&T Cisco  Over 4,300 employees in six Richardson buildings  Over 1,200 employees on Richardson campus  Operaons: U‐Verse Business Unit, DSL Broadband Unit,  Photonics, wireless IP telephony and other telecom soluons Network Operaons Center, Integraon services, customer  Cisco Telecommunicaons headquarters + $200 million service datacenter

Ericsson Rockwell Collins  Over 2,500 employees  Over 1,200 employees  Operaons: communicaons equipment and research  Designs and manufacturers command and control systems for military applicaons and communicaons companies

Verizon Samsung Mobile  Over 2,300 employees in two divisions located in Richardson  Over 800 employees at US headquarters  Verizon Business Soluons– training, customer service,  Research/designs , develops and markets telecom systems administraon, sales  Products: Handheld cell phones, wireless infrastructure  Verizon Wireless– wireless and engineering development and systems, analog & digital key phone systems and printers services

Fujitsu Network CommunicaƟons Metro PCS  Over 1,500 employees on main campus  Over 500 employees at global  Operaons: fiber opc transmission and IP broadband headquarters plaorms, IT and carrier‐class telecommunicaons soluons  Wireless broadband personal communicaons services with no long‐term contract

hp://www.telecomcorridor.com Industry Cluster: Communications

Beginning in 1957 with the Collins Radio campus on Central Expressway, Richardson has been in the forefront of the telecom industry as major Academic/Research Support Internaonal companies were aracted to this hotspot from around the globe. Carriers/service providers, telecom equipment manufacturers, wireless communicaons, photonics and opcs networking operaons and related UT plays a key role in Richardson’s consulng firms have flocked to Richardson ever since. Telecom Corridor area by providing cung edge research, programs and graduates for ParƟal History of Richardson’s Telecom Corridor® area: this key industry sector.

Year Company/OrganizaƟon Richardson OperaƟons  UT Dallas is the first university in the 1957 Collins Radio Built first building, 123,000 square‐feet on a 400‐ U.S. to offer a fully‐accredited telecommuni‐ acre campus at Arapaho and US 75 caons engineering degree (BS, MS & Ph.D.)  Center for Advanced Telecommunica‐ 1961 Texas Instruments Established Graduate Research Center of SW on ons Systems and Services (CATSS) 200 acres in northwest Richardson  Embedded Soware Center (ESC) 1969 Collins Radio CR equipment developed in Richardson used to  Center for Systems, Communicaons transmit the first television signals from the moon and Signal Processing (CSCSP)

1969 UT Dallas Graduate Research Center of SW became part of TelecommunicaƟons/Wireless Companies UT System and renamed UT Dallas Founded in Richardson 1972 MCI Relocates 1,000 employees to Richardson AirWalk Communicaons 1978 Northern Telecom Establishes presence in Richardson GlobeRanger Corp. (Nortel) IEX InnerWireless 1988 Fujitsu Network Selects Richardson for campus IP Cell Communicaons Latus Networks Mavenir Systems 1991 Alcatel Acquires Collins Radio from Rockwell, Monterrey Networks establishes US headquarters in Richardson Navini Networks 1996 Samsung and Siemens Locate US wireless headquarters to Richardson Sipera Systems SNR Labs 2000 Cisco Systems Selects Richardson for campus Spaal Wireless 2007 Metro PCS Relocates headquarters to Richardson Telecom Technologies Voyence 2011 Ericsson Leases 460,000 square‐feet in Richardson hp://www.telecomcorridor.com