From voice network to data network
In telephony, technical development progressed in stages: the fully automated switch system 48 appeared in 1948 and was used throughout Austria until the early 1970s. The decision to introduce a digital telephone system in Austria was made in 1981. Kapsch’s Collaboration with the Canadian company Nortel began in 1982, and together the challenges of digitalization could be overcome. Kapsch continued to manufacture end devices by itself for quite some time. In 2001, the sector of telephone and data networks was moved to Kapsch CarrierCom AG (KCC).