TELES explained
TELES AG Informationstechnologien is a provider of equipment and services to fixed, fixed-mobile convergence, and Next Generation Networking (NGN) service providers.
The company was founded in 1983 as TELES GmbH by Professor Dr.-Ing. Sigram Schindler in close cooperation with Technische Universität Berlin. Professor Schindler lectured in telecommunications at the university until 1998. In 1997, he was voted High-Tech Manager of the Year by Manager Magazine in Germany.[1]
Active in VoIP technology development since 1996, the company's main development and operational focus lies in the areas of IMS and NGN.
TELES supplies service providers with complete Class 4 and Class 5 NGN Softswitch. TELES NGN is a standard based, scalable architecture aimed at minimizing integration time and allowing quick deployment. It includes hosted voice functionality which enables residential VoIP services, hosted PBX (IP Centrex) services, Fixed-Mobile-Convergence, IP Trunking, and additional value added applications. Classical NGN/PSTN applications like Wholesale, Long Distance, and NGN backbone services are also available with this.[2]
The TELES product portfolio also includes VoIP gateways and mobile gateways for GSM, CDMA, and UMTS networks.[3]
History
- 1990 ISDN product development
- 1992 ISDN PBX development[4]
- 1993 Least-Cost-Router development
- 1996 First major VoIP patent - IntraSTAR dynamic PSTN fallback[5] [6]
- 1998 TELES is floated on the stock market and becomes an AG (public limited company)
- 1998 Introduction of clustered switching system for PSTN
- 2000 First public network integrating VoIP using H.323 protocol
- 2001 First highly integrated GSM and CDMA mobile gateway developed
- 2002 First integrated mobile VoIP gateway developed
- 2003 First centralized SIM server for mobile gateways developed[7]
- 2004 STRATO AG, a webhosting TELES subsidiary, is sold to Freenet[8]
Notes and References
- Web site: About us » Management Board » Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sigram Schindler, CEO - TELES . 2008-10-27 . 2008-10-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081017140450/http://www.teles.de/en/about-us/management-board/ . dead .
- Web site: Products & Solutions » Next Generation Networks - TELES . 2008-10-27 . 2008-11-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081103112725/http://www.teles.de/en/products-and-solutions/next-generation-networks/ . dead .
- Web site: Products & Solutions » Access Gateways - TELES . 2008-10-27 . 2008-10-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081021053521/http://www.teles.de/en/products-and-solutions/access-gateways/ . dead .
- Web site: Teles AG. https://web.archive.org/web/20090120123748/http://kimbaone.de/000001985c0a4f46e/03c19899e014aa701/03c19899e1003451d/index.php4 . 2009-01-20. (in German)
- http://www.arcadiz.com/content/assets/suppliers/Teles/VoIPBOX_BR.pdf
- http://www.telecom.paper.nl/news/article.aspx?id=100355&nr=
- Web site: Method for transmitting data in a telecommunications network and switch for implementing said method - US Patent 7145902 . 2008-10-28 . 2007-10-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071019231251/http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/7145902.html . dead .
- Web site: Heise online. 15 October 2023 .
