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23-568: Siemens Communications division was founded in 1998 through the amalgamation of a number of early groups / divisions of Siemens AG, the oldest of which traces back to the company ' Siemens & Halske Telegraph Construction Company ' founded in 1847, and the most prominent predecessor being the 1978-founded 'Siemens Communication Systems'. On October 1, 2006, Siemens AG decided to divide Siemens Communications into two companies: 'Siemens Networks GmbH & Co. KG' and 'Siemens Enterprise Communications GmbH & Co. KG'. The company remains extant, through

46-499: A 60/40 GEC/Siemens joint venture. In 1990, Siemens Communications Systems acquired Florida-based Stromberg-Carlson , expanding their central office switch supplier role in the public telephone network. In 1996, Mercury Communications Ltd , subsidiary of UK-based Cable & Wireless , pulled out of the PABX market and sold that part of their business to Siemens, creating Siemens Business Communication Systems (SBCS). In October 1997,

69-543: A joint venture Nokia Siemens Networks LLC, where Nokia Oyj held 50.1% and Siemens 49.9%. In 2013, Nokia acquired 100% of Nokia Networks, buying all of Siemens' shares. In April 2014, the NSN name was phased out as part of a rebranding process. Siemens Enterprise Communications GmbH & Co. KG was split from the enterprise division. Two years later, in October 2008 it merged into a new entity Siemens Enterprise Communications –

92-581: A joint venture between Siemens AG (49%) and the Gores Group (51%) to collaborate across wireless, fixed and enterprise networks. The venture was named Open Communications, and the IP phones it produces are called OpenStage. The Wireless Modules business unit of Siemens Communications (which designs and manufactures GSM and 3G modules for the M2M markets) moved to Siemens' Automation & Drives division, and became

115-416: A major restructuring process, these main companies merged to form Siemens AG . The restructuring placed Siemens AG in a position to consolidate and diversify its operations, and be an integrated player in all domains: engineering, power generation, industry, rail systems, defence, and information & communications technology. In 1978, the company established 'Siemens Communication Systems', which in 1985

138-561: A series of mergers and divisions, as Siemens Enterprise Communications – a 2008 joint venture with the Gores Group where Siemens AG hold 49% with the balance of 51% held by the American partner. Siemens Communications traces its origins to the company Siemens & Halske Telegraph Construction Company (German legal name: Telegraphen-Bauanstalt von Siemens & Halske ) founded by Werner von Siemens on 12 October 1847. Based on

161-579: A stand-alone entity known as Cinterion Wireless Modules , later acquired by Gemalto. Realitis is a PABX telephone system built in the United Kingdom. It is now branded as Hipath DX . It is the replacement to the ISDX PABX, also built by Siemens. Siemens %26 Halske Telegraph Construction Company Siemens & Halske AG (or Siemens-Halske ) was a German electrical engineering company that later became part of Siemens . It

184-484: The NYSE , and adopted more transparent American-style accounting practices along with the publishing of annual results. In March 2002, Siemens Communications combined two parts of its enterprise business – Enterprise Sales and Marketing, and Customer Service – into one unit the 'Enterprise Networks' business. Thus, Siemens Communications was divided into two major business units – one for Mobile Networks and Fixed Networks and

207-509: The Obshchestvo Elektricheskogo Osveshcheniia (Company for Electric Lighting), also known as the 1886 Company . When Siemens & Halske merged parts of its activities with Schuckert & Co. , Nuremberg in 1903 to become Siemens-Schuckert , Siemens & Halske AG specialized in communications engineering. During World War I , rotary engines of advanced and unusual design were produced under

230-634: The telegraph , his invention used a needle to point to the sequence of letters, instead of using Morse code . In 1848, the company built the first long-distance telegraph line in Europe – 500 km from Berlin to Frankfurt am Main – and by the early 1850s the company was involved in building long distance telegraph networks in Russia. In 1867, Siemens completed the monumental Indo-European telegraph line stretching over 11,000 km from London to Calcutta . In 1897, Siemens & Halske went public. During

253-472: The British-based industrial conglomerate General Electric Company plc (GEC), through their joint company GEC Siemens plc, acquired Plessey , a British-based international electronics, defence and telecommunications company founded in 1917. Most of Plessey's assets were divided between the companies; but the 1988-founded GEC-Plessey joint venture GEC-Plessey Telecommunications (GPT) was converted to

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276-657: The GPT company was renamed Siemens GEC Communication Systems (SGCS), which by 1998 was merged with SBCS. In late 1998 the then CEO of Siemens AG, Heinrich von Pierer , introduced a global ten-point plan, where it would sell or spin off one-seventh of its entire domain and exit from its defence businesses. The revamped Siemens consisted of four main divisions: power generation, industry, rail systems, and information and communications. Siemens' biggest division – ' Siemens Information and Communication Networks ' (SICN) – later to be commonly known as 'Siemens Communications' (' Siemens COM' ) –

299-871: The Siemens-Halske brand, like the Siemens-Halske Sh.I and Sh.III . Siemens & Halske also produced large numbers of MG08/15 machineguns deployed for service of the Kaiser Imperial forces in World War I . Later, Siemens established several company subsidiaries for which the Siemens & Halske AG functioned as a holding company. During the Second World War , Siemens & Halske employed slave labour from concentration camps. Among other things, they produced field telephones of

322-683: The company in 1867. Werner von Siemens' brother Karl Heinrich, together with Werner's sons Arnold and Georg Wilhelm , grew the firm and erected new Siemens & Halske premises along the banks of the western Spree river, in the Berlin suburb of Charlottenburg, in 1897. The firm's vast new site continued to grow, and from 1899 onwards it was known as Siemensstadt . Siemens & Halske quickly expanded with representatives in Great Britain and Russia as well as its own cable-manufacturing plants at Woolwich and Saint Petersburg . The company's rise

345-490: The first electrical interurban tram in Austria-Hungary . 1882 saw the opening of the experimental " Elektromote " track, an early trolleybus concept in the Berlin suburb of Halensee . The rising popularity of telegraphs and electrical tramways, as well as in generators and electric motors, ensured steady growth for Siemens & Halske. Werner von Siemens retired in 1890, while Johann Georg Halske had already left

368-433: The first half of the 20th century, there were a series of mergers and divisions, which led to formation of three separate companies. First was the original company, Siemens & Halske, which focused on communications engineering; then the 1903-founded Siemens Schuckertwerke GmbH devoted to electric power engineering; finally the 1932-founded Siemens-Reiniger-Werke specializing in electro-medical equipment. In 1966, through

391-463: The other for Enterprise business. On 1 October 2006, Siemens AG divided Siemens Communications into two companies – Siemens Networks GmbH & Co. KG and Siemens Enterprise Communications GmbH & Co. KG – in order to pursue strategic alliances in information and communication technology (ICT). The carrier business (mobile networks, fixed networks, carrier services) became Siemens Networks GmbH & Co. KG, which later merged with Nokia to form

414-500: Was formed on 1 October 1998 as part of major restructuring and recombining of the Siemens information and communication activities. All of its previous communications and information technology based acquisitions were amalgamated into Siemens COM to provide products, systems, solutions, servicing and support for setting up, operating and maintaining complete corporate and carrier networks, which included ancillary services including network planning and financial consultancy. When Siemens COM

437-407: Was formed, it had around 60,000 employees and sales of about US$ 14 billion. Siemens COM division gave greater emphasis into the U.S. market – a market dominated by Nortel Networks , Lucent Technologies , and Cisco Systems . In 1999, it acquired two Massachusetts -based private data networking companies, Castle Networks Inc and Argon Networks Inc. Further, in 2001, Siemens made its first listing on

460-469: Was founded on 12 October 1847 as Telegraphen-Bauanstalt von Siemens & Halske by Werner von Siemens and Johann Georg Halske . The company, located in Berlin - Kreuzberg , specialised in manufacturing electrical telegraphs according to Charles Wheatstone 's patent of 1837. In 1848, the company constructed one of the first European telegraph lines from Berlin to Frankfurt am Main . Siemens & Halske

483-541: Was not alone in the realm of electrical engineering. In 1887, Emil Rathenau had established Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG), which became a long-time rival. In 1881, Siemens & Halske built the Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway , the world's first electric streetcar line, in the southwestern Lichterfelde suburb of Berlin, followed by the Mödling and Hinterbrühl Tram near Vienna ,

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506-468: Was reorganized into two companies: 'Siemens Communication Systems' for public network products, and 'Siemens Information Systems' for PBX and computer-related products. In the globalization era of the 1990s, Siemens Information Systems acquired Rolm Systems from IBM in 1989, which was the third largest supplier of PBX telephone switching equipment in North America. The same year, Siemens and

529-610: Was supported by Werner von Siemens' patent of the electric generator ( dynamo ) in 1867. Carl Wilhelm Siemens represented the company in Great Britain . They developed a cable-manufacturing plant in Woolwich . Carl Heinrich von Siemens represented the company in Russia. He established the Russian branch of the company in 1853, gaining a contract to build the telegraph system. In 1886 they obtained permission to establish

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