Overview
About Prodea
Prodea Systems, based in Plano Texas, is an emerging private company formed by the Ansari family to address the challenges of today’s increasingly complex digital home and connected small business environment. Having a strong legacy steeped in developing solutions for the service provider community, Prodea Systems is uniquely positioned to both understand and solve the complex task of delivering multiple carrier-class, Internet-based applications and services to the consumer. The Prodea Systems platform, for the first time, provides the foundation of a presence network in the home, all created by a Community Engine™ which connects and enables sharing of content, experiences and applications among peer subscribers, with an ease and simplicity that does not exist today.
The Prodea Systems Digital Lifestyle Command Center™ is the first end-to-end services delivery platform of its kind – one that comprehends the service providers’ goals to increase subscriber stickiness and ARPU, while at the same time driving a reduction in churn. This enables the delivery of services to subscribers in a manner consistent with their expectations of quality. The Prodea Systems platform will uniquely enable carrier-grade services to be delivered directly to a variety of fixed appliances in the home or automobile, as well as mobile lifestyle devices including smart phones, portable media players (PMPs) or laptops.
Prodea Systems currently has offices in Plano, Texas; Denver, Colorado; and Potomac, Maryland.
Company History
Prodea Systems is the latest entrepreneurial effort of the Ansari family. Prodea Systems was founded by Anousheh, Hamid and Amir Ansari and incorporated in May 2006; however, our solution, technology, and intellectual property incubated for the three years prior. We officially launched our company on September 18, 2006, the historic day Anousheh Ansari launched into space onboard a Russia Soyuz spacecraft. Prodea Systems is headquartered in Dallas with additional offices in Denver, Colorado; and Potomac, Maryland.
Anousheh, Hamid, and Amir Ansari are inventors and proven entrepreneurs with a history of building companies based on industry-changing technologies. They launched several ingenious carrier-grade products through their company, Telecom Technologies, Inc., which successfully merged with Sonus Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: SONS) in 2001.
The Ansari’s family commitment to enabling fundamental change extends beyond the business sphere to include significant social and scientific undertakings. Prodea Systems’ CEO and co-founder, Anousheh Ansari (www.anoushehansari.com) is known around the world for her historic journey into space as the world’s first female private space explorer when she traveled on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station in September 2006. In addition, the Ansari family launched a bold new era of non-governmental manned spacecraft by providing the title sponsorship for the Ansari X Prize, a $10 million cash prize awarded in 2004 for the first successful private flight into space. With the success of the X Prize competition, the Ansari’s helped launch a new era in private spaceflight.
Prodea Systems is the next step in the Ansari’s commitment to breaking down
barriers and bringing about radical change in the world.