Telecom software and equipment maker Ericsson has opened 20,000 square meter ICT center in Vaudreuil-Dorion, Quebec – to boost the development of the next generation of cloud infrastructure and services.
The site in Quebec is the third Ericsson Global ICT Center. Ericsson earlier opened ICT center in Linkoping, Sweden in September 2014, and Rosersberg, Sweden in January 2016.
The selection of site location enables more than 20,000 R&D engineers globally to accelerate innovation cycles, reduce cost and better support Ericsson’s customers.
The ICT center supports engineering on virtual platforms with global test labs and IT hubs connected via a single virtual environment – supporting Ericsson to host 5G development under one roof
These ICT centers allow Ericsson to emulate an operator’s mobile network and to test new solutions. Ericsson’s customers will be able to connect remotely for interoperability testing, trials, early access and innovation on new offerings from any location.
The Global ICT Centers are powered by Ericsson’s cloud solutions and will host a substantial part of the company’s product portfolio. The Global ICT Centers will use the Ericsson Hyperscale Datacenter System 8000, which provides significant cost savings.
Ericsson can reduce innovation cycles and increase collaboration while reducing R&D costs as a result of this extensive rationalization and virtualization effort. The company’s test environments are spread across more than 50 locations worldwide.
Ericsson says all three Global ICT Centers will result in 40 percent reduction in energy usage compared to 2012 test lab energy baseline.
Over the past three years, Ericsson has invested approximately SEK 100 billion in research and development. Ericsson holds over 37,000 granted patents, including more standard-essential patents for mobile communication than any other company.
Ericsson has more than 3,500 employees in Canada. In 2015, Ericsson invested more than $317 million in Canadian R&D, and ranks as one of the Top 10 R&D investors in the country with a total R&D investment in Canada of more than $4 billion CAD.
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