Founded in

Line of business
Number of employees

1993 (The name was changed to Tellabs in 1997, the Oulu unit was founded in 1994)
Communications infrastructure solutions
1000 (About 70 in Oulu)

Tellabs is building infrastructure of communications

The history of the American company Tellabs is a fabulous story of success. In 25 years, a company that started out in a garage developed into an international communications infrastructure builder with a turnover of billions of dollars. Now, Tellabs has business units in almost 60 countries, and customers in over 80 countries. Tellabs stock is listed on the NASDAQ stock market, and its turnover for the year 2000 was 3.4 billion USD.