Nokia Siemens Networksis offloading
German research and development facilities to IBM to cut
costs.
The company is transferring about 235 Munich and Berlin
employees to IBM as part of the move, which will see IBM instead
provide R&D services to Nokia Siemens Networks.
When the two firms got together to form the networks business,
it initially resulted in hundreds of redundancies across the two
businesses.
The R&D facilities transferred cover four business lines of
the firm's Service Core and Applications Business Unit to a
subsidiary of IBM.
The activities transferred include next-generation voice and
multimedia, media gateways, mobile internet connections, and the
consumer and business voice-over IP business lines, as well as
technical support.
Entire teams will be transferred but will continue to deliver
necessary development activities back to Nokia Siemens
Networks.
They will work together with Nokia Siemens Networks' programme
management, product management, architecture, technical support and
system level testing teams.
The transfer is expected to be completed by the beginning of
December.