equipment founded 1985 1 headquarters huntsville alabama 2 usa key people tom stanton ceo revenue us 630 million fy 2014 3 operating income us 52.1 million fy 2014 3 net income us 44.6 million fy 2014 3 total assets us 446 million fy 2012 4 total equity us 692 million fy 2012 4 number of employees 2045 5 slogan smart solutions for a connected world website www.adtran.com adtran inc. is a provider of telecommunications networking equipment and internetworking products . its headquarters are in huntsville alabama . 7 the company is iso 9001 and tl9000 certified . 8 adtran was a nasdaq 100 index stock from 1996 to 1998 . 9 it was 85 on businessweek s 100 hot growth companies list in 2006 . 7 contents 1 corporate history 2 locations 3 awards 4 competitors 5 references 6 external links corporate history edit adtran was founded by mark c. smith 10 and lonnie mcmillian 11 and began operations in 1986 . 7 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 multi service access platforms and integrated access devices iads for converged voice and data networks . according to computer business review adtran enhanced its portfolio of carrier ethernet products with the addition of three new multi service modular routers supporting a services enabled sustained throughput of up to 250mbit s. citation needed in december 2011 adtran announced to buy the broadband part from nokia siemens networks . 12 13 in 2012 adtran closing of acquisition of the nokia siemens networks broadband division was finished . locations edit adtran s u.s. corporate headquarters is located in huntsville alabama in the second largest research park in the united states . adtran s european regional headquarters is in munich germany . adtran has engineering research and development centers in huntsville alabama usa hyderabad india berlin germany greifswald mecklenburg vorpommern germany munich bavaria germany sales and support offices are located throughout the u.s. and around the world . 14 awards edit adtran awards competitors edit competitors of adtran s carrier networks division include alcatel lucent cisco systems fujitsu huawei and tellabs . there are also a number of smaller specialized firms with which compete with adtran such as actelis calix zhone and other privately held firms . 15 competitors of adtran s enterprise networks division include cisco systems avaya alcatel lucent hewlett packard enterasys networks extreme networks aruba aerohive meraki and other smaller companies . some of these companies compete in a single product segment while others compete across multiple product lines . 16 references edit http finance.yahoo.com q pr s adtn about us ; tbe website ; retrieved april 25 2007 a b c adtran adtn annual sec income statement filing via wikinvest a b adtran adtn annual sec balance sheet filing via wikinvest http www.adtran.com web page portal adtran wp investorservices investorfaqs company profile for adtran inc. adtn . retrieved 2008 10 20 . a b c hot growth special report 2006 . business week . 2006 . archived from the original on 28 may 2009 . retrieved 2009 07 10 . http www.adtran.com web page portal adtran wp qualitypolicy historical data nasdaq 100 index . nasdaq . retrieved 2009 07 10 . mark c. smith . the huntsville times . march 29 2007 . retrieved 2007 06 21 . adtran co founder chairman passes away archived november 19 2007 at the wayback machine . http www.lightreading.com dsl adtran to buy nsns broadband unit 240131046 http techcrunch.com 2011 12 12 adtran buys nokia siemens networks fixed line broadband access business 400 people http www.adtran.com web page portal adtran wp locations http www.adtran.com web page portal adtran wp investorservices investorfaqs http www.adtran.com web page portal adtran wp investorservices investorfaqs external links edit adtran official site adtran distributor retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title adtran & oldid 742005369 categories companies based in huntsville alabamatelecommunications equipment vendorscompanies established in 1986networking companies of the united statesnetworking hardware companiescompanies listed on nasdaq1986 establishments in the united stateshidden categories articles with wayback machine linkspages using infobox company with unsupported parametersall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from october 2013 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 1 october 2016 at 02 19 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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