SpliceCom Chairman Frank Bretherton and Sales & Marketing Director Jeremy Cooke were honoured with a special Channel Achievement Award at the recent UK Comms Channel Gala Dinner. Held at The National Motorcycle Museum, Birmingham and presented by the Editor of Comms Business magazine, Ian Hunter, the award recognised the pioneering efforts of the duo in developing and launching the revolutionary INDeX business telephone system whilst leading SDX Business Systems in the mid-90’s. Frank Bretherton was unable to attend but former SDX channel director Enda Kenneally joined Jeremy in collecting the award on Frank’s behalf.“We’ve broken our own rules to recognise a product that, since its introduction in 1995, has raised the bar for all the other telephone systems that followed,” said Hunter. “Everything about it was market leading. The INDeX brochures were outstanding and in addition there was an accompanying Encyclopaedia on a CD-ROM with everything you ever wanted to know about the PBX; industry information, slide shows and much more. All pretty radical stuff at that time.”
Bretherton & Cooke were on a mission and had soon signed up all the key resellers in the UK to sell INDeX. And sell it they did, with INDeX ending up with an installed base of around 20,000 systems. Their UK success brought them to the attention of the global marketplace eventually leading to the acquisition of SDX by Lucent Technologies in June 1998, having identified both INDeX and it's formidable channel as key for their growth plans outside of the US. The Lucent Technologies Enterprise Networks telephone system business was then spun-off as Avaya in October 2000 and INDeX went with it, where it's end-of-life was announced late last year.
Cooke left the company soon after the Lucent acquisition, with Bretherton leaving some 12 months later after SDX Business System had been successfully integrated within the parent company. The pair then joined Sean Harding and Robin Hayman at SpliceCom in 2001, where their market approach is once again proving highly successful.
“A great number of the 600 plus industry stalwarts attending the Comms Channel Awards Dinner owe, at least in part, some of their own success to this world beating product, designed and developed by a small UK company in Hertfordshire,” concluded Hunter.
SpliceCom Managing Director & CEO Sean Harding collected the award in front of over 600 leading figures in the UK comms industry from MC Rory McGrath (of “They Think Its All Over” and “Who Dares, Wins” fame) and Mark Saunders, Director of Resale, from the award sponsors Gamma Telecom.
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This is the second year in a row that SpliceCom have won such an award. At the 2004 Comms Channel Awards SpliceCom’s maximiser scooped the “Most Innovative Product or Service” in a section targeted at new companies under 3 years old. In support of the award the judges felt that; "In a very competitive field SpliceCom's maximiser stood out as being a highly commercial proposition for the channel, delivering the innovative applications that have become the trademark of the management team who have once again put together a winning product."
