History of Alteva
Alteva’s history begins in 1996 when former college roommates, William Bumbernick and Mark Marquez, launched a technology consulting and remote monitoring company. The fledgling company landed a major pharmaceutical client in 2000 and developed a proprietary remote monitoring system for eight of its worldwide locations. As the next logical step, the company transitioned into managed services, for Microsoft products, security assessment and outsourced CIO management functions.
That year, one of Alteva’s newest clients was installing a hybrid (TDM/VoIP) phone system. The client asked Alteva to serve as the project lead for the install. In 2000, VoIP was just viewed as experimental technology, not as a trusted voice application – the way it is seen today. Since Alteva managed this client’s data functions, adding phones was a logical additional service.
This experience was the catalyst for Alteva’s implementation of a full R&D program between 2000 and 2002 on packet-based voice technologies. Alteva became standardized on a BroadSoft switching platform in 2003, becoming one of the first VoIP service providers in the world. Since its inception, Alteva built its solutions around the needs of the enterprise level client.
In 2003, VoIP had become the sole focus of the company and Bumbernick brought Louis Hayner aboard to serve as Alteva’s Director of Sales. Hayner brought ten years of experience in the telecom industry to Alteva, and is currently the Chief Sales Officer.
In 2006, the company enlisted David Cuthbert to head up Alteva’s Operations Department. A graduate of the United States Naval Academy and a former Naval Special Operations Officer, Cuthbert has since developed scalable processes through automation and employee development to support Alteva’s tremendous growth.
Between 2007 and 2009, Alteva has grown its employee base by more than 300 percent, and plans to continue hiring to meet the needs of its rapidly growing business in the years to come.
Alteva is consistently ahead of its competition, announcing new products and capabilities before it becomes mainstream, most recently partnering with other service providers to develop HD voice and video IP Peering capabilities and new applications designed to meet the needs of the enterprise level client.
Over the years, Alteva’s executives have become well-respected thought leaders within the telephony industry, speaking on topics including Voice 2.0, IP Peering, Cloud Computing, Disaster Recovery and HD Voice at conferences including VON, Supercomm, ACUTA, Channel Partners Conference & Expo, and IT Expo.
Having conquered one of the fasting growing and hotly contested market segments, Alteva has its eye on the future, as always. As the company enters the second decade of the new millennium, Alteva is now provisioning international phone numbers and offering a new Unified Communications solution, supplying the voice component in conjunction with Microsoft and Broadsoft to offer hosted Voice-integrated Microsoft Communciation Services including Exchange, OCS and SharePoint.