 tellabs, inc. is a telecommunications company that designs, develops and supports telecommunications networking products. the company serves telecommunications service providers (including mobile wireless communication companies), independent operating companies, multiple-system operator cable companies, enterprises and government agencies. over one third of the world's wireless calls travel via networks owned by tellabs customerstellabs_(tlab) page on wikinvest such as t-mobile and verizon communications. ==history== tellabs traces its roots to a meeting in 1975 over a kitchen table in suburban chicago. in a booklet on tellabs' first quarter century, twenty-five years of clear ideas: tellabs 1975-2000, founder michael birck, the first chief executive officer and still chairman, described the formation of the company. ===startup=== birck said that six men with backgrounds in electrical engineering and sales drank coffee and brainstormed ideas for a new telecom company. he said they wanted to build a company that offered customers products and services that met their specific needs. the partners raised $110,000 in capital. they incorporated as tellabs in the spring of 1975. the name combined the idea of telephones and laboratories. the start-up only had a one-man research department, a second-hand soldering iron picked up for $25 and an outdated oscilloscope
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