EADS sets up Telecoms Group with EADS Telecommunications
Paris, 21 March 2001
The European group EADS (European Aeronautic Defence & Space Company), the European leader in its three sectors of activity, is setting up EADS Telecommunications which will bring together all the different entities within the Group working in the field of civil and military telecommunications. The aim is to provide the Defence and Security markets with telecommunications solutions based on state of the art of civil technologies.
EADS Telecommunications: diversity for an all-inclusive deal
EADS Telecommunications, set up within the Defence & Civil Systems Division, is based around EADS Defence & Security Networks (an EADS joint venture with Nortel Networks), the spearhead of the Group for telecommunications activities, reinforced by other EADS subsidiaries and others JVs with Nortel Networks:
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The communications networks activities of EADS (Germany) which supplies mobile and fixed communications systems for tactical or strategic applications to the Armed Forces and government and international organisations,
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INTECOM (USA) specialised in Call Centres,
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SYCOMORE (France) specialist in software integration and information and security systems architecture using Internet Protocol.
In addition to these three companies in which EADS has a majority shareholding, EADS Telecommunications will also include two subsidiary companies of Nortel Networks in which EADS has a minority shareholding: Matra Nortel Communications (France) and Nortel Networks Germany, which, each in their respective market, provide a wide range of telecommunications solutions to carriers and enterprises.
Key areas of expertise to offer a complete range of solutions
EADS Telecommunications will now combine all the expertise available in the key telecom activities, together with expertise in the management of the core technologies:
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radiocommunications,
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information security, (cryptology),
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information systems using IP protocol,
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integration.
Thanks to such expertise, EADS Telecommunications will be in a position to supply its markets with a complete range of telecom solutions, from access and backbone to applications and including network supervision and administration. Furthermore, it will be able to develop its networks to third generation using Internet protocol.
EADS and Nortel Networks: two powerful shareholders which complement each other
Due to the collaboration of two powerful partners which complement each other and are both world leaders in their field, EADS Telecommunications will enjoy the advantages of an exceptional synergy:
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An international sales network dedicated to government contracts and major systems through EADS, the leading European Group in the aerospace industry, the third major aeronautics, space and defence Group in the world, and a key partner in major international defence and security programmes.
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Technological advances and an unparalleled range of telecommunications solutions ensured by direct access to Nortel Networks products, the world leader in High Performance Internet solutions for carriers and enterprises and a key player in all areas of fixed and mobile, voice, data and image telecommunications.
"These two powerful partners place EADS Telecommunications in a remarkable position to serve the Defence and Security telecommunications markets using civil technologies." states Thomas Enders, member of EADS Executive Committee and head of Defence & civil systems.
EADS Defence & Security Networks (EDSN), the leading element
At the heart of the EADS Group, EADS Telecommunications will be managed by EADS Defence & Security Networks (EDSN), the joint venture of EADS (55 %) and Nortel Networks (45 %), which, since June 2000, has been the key element and the focus of creating added value for the Group's telecommunications activity. Jacques Payer, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of EDSN, is named as the Executive Director of EADS Telecommunications.
The global supplier of telecommunications networks for the Security and Defence industries, the architect and integrator of fixed or transportable systems, from studies to deployment and support services, EDSN is the result of gathering together the activities dedicated to these sectors in DASA (Daimler Chrysler Aerospace), Nortel Networks, Matra Nortel Communications and former Aerospatiale Matra companies. Within EADS, EDSN works in synergy with the company Astrium (communications by satellite), the Outsourced Services centre, in charge of outsourcing Defence services, and the C3I centre of expertise, specialising in prime contractorship for command systems, to offer its customers package solutions.
According to Jacques Payer, "EDSN's vocation is to bring together all the activities included in EADS Telecommunications".
The worldwide leader in secured digital radiocommunications networks (Tetrapol technology), the major supplier of fixed and mobile networks for the armed forces and governments in Europe, EDSN is acting in 25 countries and generated a pro forma turnover for the year 2000 of around 500 million Euros. Its branches in Germany, France, Spain, the United Kingdom and Mexico give it significant potential for international expansion across the continents.
In 2001, EDSN plans to recruit 200 engineers in France.
An ambitious goal of international development
EDSN operates in a highly profitable world market, with a total volume currently estimated to be worth 3.5 billion Euros. This targeted market based on the use of civil technologies is now experiencing growth of around 15% per year for three main reasons:
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the increasing concerns of States and government organisations insofar as concerns public security, particularly in connection with the increase in delinquency, the internationalisation of trade together with developments in Defence missions (e.g. projected forces).
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in the context of the constant reduction of Defence budgets, the rising force within this sector of secure civil technologies, positioned at the cutting edge of development and performance while offering competitive prices.
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the demand for interoperability guaranteed by the use of civil technologies and connection protocols.
In this profitable market, EADS Defence & Security Networks announces an ambitious goal: by 2005 it intends to become one of the three key players in the world in the Security and Defence markets for telecommunications networks solutions based on civil technologies. Spurred on by this dynamic, EADS Telecommunications should double its volume of business within the next four years, by developing in the five major European countries and also on the American continent (USA, Canada and Latin America) and in Asia.
Press Contacts:
EADS Telecommunications
EADS Defence & Security Networks
Brigitte Faure: 33 (01) 34 60 71 70
E-mail: brigitte.faure@eads-dsn.com
EADS: Martine Galland : 33 (01) 42 24 22 54 - martine.galland@eads.net
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