Sasken is an embedded telecom solutions company that enables companies across the telecom value chain to accelerate their product development cycles. It was established in 1989 and currently employs over 2500 people worldwide. It has offices in leading markets like Canada, China, Germany, Japan, Sweden, UK and the U.S.A. Some of the global Fortune 500 companies like Nokia, Nortel and Motorola are part of its customer base. Sasken works with terminal device manufacturers, network equipment manufacturers, semiconductor vendors and network operators to help them with new product development and get to market ahead of the competition. It offers solutions that cover all sub systems in a mobile phone and help in creating a number of models from a platform. The integrated solutions integrate all feature phone software`s protocol stacks, codecs, media engines, applications and MMI, while application solutions consist of full-featured application bundles for smart phones. These solutions are available on Symbian, Windows and Linux platforms. Apart from the basic products, it offers services in areas of IC design, Silicon platform software, wireless infrastructure, offshore R&D, convergence technologies and handset model development.