| Industry | telecommunications |
|---|---|
| Founded | Paris, France (1990) |
| Headquarters | Paris, France |
| Products | telecommunications service, electronics, communications systems |
Inventel is a major French company involved in consumer electronics and communication systems. Founded in 1990 in Paris by Jacques Lewiner and Eric Carreel, cofounder of Withings, the company has been acquired by Thomson SA, today known as Technicolor, in 2005.[1]
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Inventel is a French company. Inventel has specialized in creating domestic gateways Gateway (telecommunications). Inventel is the creator of the Livebox, distributed by France Telecom, and the BT Home Hub distributed by British Telecom, (like many other Internet box operators in Europe). As such, Inventel is considered to be one of the leading architects of Triple play (telecommunications) in Europe. In 2001, Inventel conducted a fundraising of 6 million euros from Banexi Ventures and Innovacom. Based in the 5th arrondissement of Paris at 35 rue Tournefort, near ESPCI, the company had around 75 employees when it was acquired by Thomson. Inventel Employees, primarily engineers developed all components of their products: software, hardware and mechanics. In March 2005, Thomson announced the acquisition of Inventel.[2]
In between the scientific and industrial world, Inventel was founded in 1990 by two searchers from ESPCI École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris, Jacques Lewiner and Eric Carreel. In the 90’s Inventel became one of the world’s biggest actor of the pagers market with the Tam Tam a paging service with the standard Ermes, marketed by large operators. In 1997, Inventel began its engineering activities in DECT. Since then, many innovative of Inventel features for DECT phones have been distributed by the major European operators.
Already 1999, Inventel was working on a Box integrating voice and data wireless: a product released in 2001, called BlueDSL. Inventel has developed its expertise in the wireless data transfer, taking advantage of the expansion of the Wireless ADSL in the consumer electronics market. Thanks to control of Bluetooth technology and the 802.11, Inventel became the first major manufacturer of ADSL wireless secured access with DWB200 released in 2002.[3] Since 2002, Inventel provides operators with a full range of ADSL modems for wireless hotspots and consumer electronics market and is very successful in producing the France Telecom’s Livebox and the BT Home Hub BT . Inventel has been a pioneer in integrating VoIP in his gateway and particularly in its treatment of VoIP wireless DECT for the BT Hub.[4][5]
Inventel specializes in equipment for the stationary telephone network using technologies like Bluetooth, DECT, Wi-Fi : Inventel activities:
- Design of wireless products, such as DECT phones.
- Manufacturing and marketing modules (Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are designed as complete solutions for manufacturers who want to add wireless capability to their products)
- Design of finished products for the wireless voice and data communication to the phone line: ADSL Modem Routers Bluetooth and / or WiFi, Bluetooth wireless phone, wireless residential gateway and VoIP DECT.