ip.access

History

ip.access was founded in December 1999 as a wholly owned subsidiary of TTP Group PLC aimed at developing technologies that would allow multiple radio access technologies to communicate over the Internet. To accommodate its growing staff, in 2006 ip.access relocated to new offices in Cambourne Business Park, Cambridge, where it remains.

In October 2000, TTP Group spun off its communications division (TTP Communications, or TTPCom) in an initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange, and ip.access joined the spin-off as a wholly owned subsidiary of the TTPCom group.

In March 2006, the company secured an £8.5 million round of funding from Intel Capital, Scottish Equity Partners, and Rothschild & Cie Banque. As part of its June 2006 acquisition of TTP Communications, Motorola also gained a stake in ip.access. In 2007, after signing an OEM agreement with ip.access, ADC (now part of Tyco Electronics) made a minority interest investment in the company. Followed by, both Cisco Systems and Qualcomm making strategic financial investments in the company in 2008.

In July 2007, the firm became a founding member of the Femto Forum, renamed Small Cell Forum in February 2012. ip.access was named in The Sunday Times Fast Tech Track 100 in both 2007 and 2008. The company was cited as the number one picocell vendor by ABI Research in 2008.

In 2009, ip.access was named in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA. In April 2009, the company announced its Oyster 3G product would support femtocell standards published by 3GPP and the Broadband Forum. In March 2010, the company took part in the first Plugfest, organized by ETSI as part of its Plugtests program, held to demonstrate the effectiveness of the 3GPP femtocell standards in supporting interoperability between femtocell access points and network equipment from different vendors.