NET-TEL was founded in 1982 to develop real-time communications software for network operators and telecommunications equipment suppliers that did not have the specialist in-house skills needed to design and develop high-performance software for advanced applications.
In 1986 NET-TEL's founders recognised that electronic mail and messaging would become key software technologies in the future. They decided to apply the skills and experience that NET-TEL had built up in networking and telecommunications to developing software based on open-systems interconnection and the then-emerging X.400 standards for messaging. They also made the decision to develop global products rather than to continue developing custom software for other companies. These decisions created the foundation for NET-TEL's significant expansion and its current position as the leading European developer of X.400 messaging products.
The first Route400 products were released in 1988. These generated immediate interest among public sector organisations in Britain and elsewhere which were beginning to issue requests for proposals for messaging solutions based on X.400. Since then, the range of software available under the Route400 brand has grown steadily to become a truly comprehensive family of products encompassing the widest range of platforms in the industry. NET-TEL's customer base now includes industrial, commercial and government organisations. Route400 products also form the basis for a range of product and service deliveries from a growing number of OEM partners.
NET-TEL is privately owned by its founders and a number of senior employees. All development staff have university degrees in computer science or engineering and the more senior of them have been with NET-TEL for over 10 years. With this skill level and very high degree of continuity among the staff, NET-TEL has acquired an unequalled capability in X.400-based technology. This sets NET-TEL apart from other businesses that entered the field later or for which messaging is a non-exclusive, non-core activity.
NET-TEL is self-financed and has a consistent record of profitability. The business of the company has grown in excess of 35% p.a. financed from retained earnings, and the directors and staff firmly believe in the long-term stability of the company. Large organisations have a right to know that, when buying software products from NET-TEL, these will be upgraded and supported without problems for many years ahead from a financially stable and responsive company.
NET-TEL has always had an international outlook with more than half of its revenue coming from clients based outside Britain. In Spain, NET-TEL Sistemas España has been established and supports an increasing number of local systems integrators. In all countries, NET-TEL is adding to its existing partners by actively seeking new systems integrators and service providers that satisfy its requirements for business professionalism and technical competence.
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