Norwood Systems (ASX: NOR) was founded in 2011 to develop and supply global mobility and roaming solutions for multinational organisations. The company’s current offering, Voice Continuity, delivers international roaming solution for the enterprise private voice cloud. Voice Continuity is based on award-winning technology developed by an earlier iteration of Norwood Systems during the early 2000s, which successfully developed and deployed the world’s first ‘dual-mode’ enterprise mobility platform using Bluetooth/GSM cellular handsets. The Company won the first ever tender issued by a large telco for dual-mode converged enterprise voice services infrastructure. Norwood Systems was ranked by Time Magazine as one of Europe’s hottest tech firms in 2001 and 2002. In 2003, its technology won the prestigious European IST Prize, awarded annually by Europe’s Academies of Science to the top 20 ground-breaking IT innovations in the European Economic Area.
It became clear by 2010 that smartphones, powered by Apple and Google software, were becoming open enough to support the service architecture originally envisaged by the founding Norwood Systems’ team in mid-1999. Consequently, its founders decided to take the million lines of code developed by the first Norwood Systems out of mothballs and re-start the company, using the Norwood Systems name once again to reflect the strong enterprise mobility heritage of the Company’s technology base and team.
In June 2019, Norwood Systems was the National iAwards Finalist in the Most Effective Infrastructure Solution category at the WAITTA INCITE awards for its World Voicemail, transcribed visual voicemail telco platform.
