Agilent Technologies

The Basic Agilent Story

Agilent Technologies, Inc. is a global, diversified technology company focusing on high-growth markets in the communications, electronics, life sciences and healthcare industries. Agilent Technologies’ separation from Hewlett-Packard Company is the result of a corporate realignment. Agilent operates four businesses: test and measurement, semi-conductor products, healthcare solutions and chemical analysis, supported by a central laboratory. Its businesses excel in applying measurement technologies to develop products that sense, analyze, display, and communicate data. The company’s worldwide headquarters are in Palo Alto, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley.

All forms of information -- voice, data, video -- are converging and at some point Agilent wants to be support accessing information any time, any place in any format. To reach this vision, Agilent is helping the industry address the three fundamental issues of speed, quality and complexity in the move to an all-optical network. Agilent's role is to accelerate the advent of that all-optical converged network. It is in the business to make it happen quicker and more cost-effectively.

The forces molding the future of communications are the Internet, data traffic, and consumer demand for mobility. These are shaping the next-generation network architecture. The challenge for network equipment manufacturers and service providers is differentiation based not only on quality of service but speed of service delivery. In addition, service providers need to dramatically reduce their operating costs and uncover new revenues.

Agilent enables designers, manufacturers and service providers to accelerate the delivery of next-generation devices, networks and services. Its broad set of solutions and services includes optical, wireless, Internet and broadband technologies that span the entire communications lifecycle. Agilent's role towards delivery of all-optical networks and services include:

• A strategic initiative in network and service installation and maintenance designed to help service providers and network equipment manufacturers reduce time to revenue and time to service.
• An operations support systems strategy combining its expertise in test and measurement that will help service providers dramatically reduce their operating costs.
• An industry-first 10 gigabit Ethernet WAN testing solution, allowing network equipment manufacturers and service providers to advance the development of 10 GbE routers, switches, networks and services, while lowering related testing costs.
• The industry's first family of 10 Gb/s and 2.5 Gb/s multi-rate transmission test sets with all-channel testing technology that dramatically reduce installation and maintenance test time and cost of test.

Agilent and the Test and Measurement Industry

• Agilent web page
  
• Agilent Company Facts
  
• Test and Measurement web page
  
• Agilent Annual Reports
  
• Agilent Financial Information
  
• Agilent 10K Report to SEC
  
• Barnholt Outlines Future Direction
  
• One IT (within Agilent)
  

Other Industry References

• Test Mart web page
  
• Electronic Industry Alliance
  

Key People Within Agilent Technologies

• Edward W. (Ned) Barnholt, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
  
• William P. (Bill) Sullivan, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
  
• Jack P. Trautman, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Automated Test Group
  
• Byron J. Anderson, Senior Vice President and General Manager Electronic Products and Solutions Group
  
• Thomas (Tom) White, Senior Vice President and General Manager Communications Solutions Group
  
• Marty Chuck, Vice President and Chief Information Officer
  

Tips on Doing a Paper on Agilent

• Acknowledge the total scope of Agilent's business and then concentrate on test and measurement.
• According to the Encyclopedia of American Industries a logic breakdown of the products in this industry include:
  1. Automated test equipment
  2. Communications test equipment
  3. Signal generators
  4. Electrical integrating instruments
  5. Multi-meters
  6. Oscilloscopes
  7. Spectrum analyzers

  There is also a wide range of other products like tube testers, impedance measurers, frequency meters, battery testers, stroboscopes, tachometers, reflectometers, ammeters and ohmmeters. Obviously the above reinforces the fact that this industry has a very wide range of products and many shapes and sizes of companies competing for market share.

• Remember that while Agilent can clain sixty years of experience based on its HP background, it is also like a new company in other respects. This includes dealing with legacy systems that it inherited from HP but is in the process of reengineering.

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