100 years of innovation

Few industrial sectors have undergone such a radical transformation over the past 100 years as telecommunications. Italtel, founded in July 1921 under the name of Siemens SA, has spanned the last century managing to transform its activities and develop know-how to gradually respond to the changing Italian economic and social context and the need for transformation of the country.

In a world that has become increasingly global, in its history Italtel has played a leading role in the innovation of the Italian telecommunications system and has then exported technology and skills that were developed entirely in research and development in its laboratories in Italy to many countries around the world.

Italtel has always followed the beacon of innovation. At the end of the 1960s, it was a pioneer in electronic switching with the Proteo telephone exchange project, from which the UT System will then derive, which in the early 1990s was among the top three in the world. In the early 2000s, it was among the first companies in the world to bring voice over the Internet Protocol (IP) network, allowing an operator to be the first to fully migrate national and international voice traffic over the IP network. A few years later, Italtel brought VoIP to the business world as well.

The innovation did not stop: Italtel has redesigned its products according to the logic of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN), and developed more powerful and secure IP solutions thanks to the capabilities of technological integration and services value added.

Today, with its research teams, it designs solutions in the 5G, Internet of Things (IoT), Hybrid Cloud, Cybersecurity, Collaboration fields and continues to operate in the market of communication networks and services with solutions that also use proprietary products and professional services for the design, migration, interoperability of networks with different technologies.