Who are Splicecom?
Introducing the Maximiser from Splicecom!
A business telephone system for between 4 and 10,000 users, designed and developed for the 21st Century. Despite the presence of well established global players, since launching their product in 2005, Splicecom have taken the industry by storm having already won 18.4% of the UK VoIP market.
So who are Splicecom? Where have they come from? How have they managed to get such a large slice of the pie in such a short space of time?
With an incredible pedigree, a brief bit of history should help explain...
About Splicecom
Network Alchemy: In 1994, a group of networking people started Network Alchemy; a company with the intention of delivering the benefits of integrating a telephone system with PC networks. With key designers Sean Harding and Robin Hayman behind the wheel, when their product was launched in 1997 it took the market by storm. So much so, within 12 months SDX Business Systems had bought Network Alchemy.
SDX Business Systems: With the new addition to their product range, by 1998 SDX had quickly grown from an organisation turning over £8m to £60m in 12 months, becoming the UK's largest supplier of telephone systems with the Index and Network Alchemy systems. The key business drivers & shareholders of SDX were Jeremy Cooke & Frank Bretherton.
Lucent Technologies: In June 1998, Lucent Technologies (a spin off from AT&T) bought SDX Business Systems for £124m, making them the largest telephony system company in the world. In 2000, Lucent spun off its communications division, distributing shares of the new company - Avaya Inc. - to Lucent shareholders. Avaya rebadged the Network Alchemy system calling it the IP office. Today the IP office is Avaya's flagship product globally for the SME market.
Splicecom: The reformed partnership
In 2001, the four key players in the development of the world's biggest telephone systems (pictured below from left to right - Jeremy Cooke [ex SDX], Sean Harding [ex designer of Network Alchemy], Frank Bretherton [ex SDX] & Robin Hayman [ex Network Alchemy]) regrouped and formed Splicecom.
With a clean sheet of paper and an incredible pedigree, they designed the Splicecom call server. Their objectives were to develop a true IP system to capitalise on the established benefits of convergence, but also addressing the business needs for simple flexibility, scalability (from 4 to 10,000 extensions) and resilience (clustered and multi-site failover servers).
These are benefits that have previously only been within the reach of Blue Chip organisations. Needless to say, SpliceCom have not suffered from the design and marketing handicaps imposed on traditional PBX manufacturers, allowing them to deliver a system which is capable of combining information, be it by voice, data or video, to deliver unique and tangible business benefits.