ALTEN UK's engineers work on a diverse range of projects on behalf of our clients. In most cases they form an integral part of the client's team, and use the client's development procedures and quality standards.

We operate in a wide range of skill areas, some of which are indicated below:

Real-time & signal processing

Man-machine interface

Avionics

Network Management

Telecommunications & telephony

Internet & intranet

Wireless Communication

Databases

Network & systems administration

Client/server

Space, satellites

Applied mathematics

Electronics and low-level programming

Mechanical engineering

Object oriented methodologies

Telecom Services

Below is just a small sample of the type of projects on which our consultants have been recently engaged.

Avionics

ALTEN's consultants have worked with a large avionics company on an Inflight Entertainment System, comprising a variety of products.
(telephones, audio, video and data systems).

Alten Staff roles:
System Design Manager, RTM Engineer, Project Leader, Team Leader.

Telecommunications and telephony

ALTEN has provided support and consultancy to clients developing call-centre and CTI applications.

ALTEN works with a number of major networking and telecomms companies, providing consultancy in QoS issues, network architecture improvements and projects on behalf of the clients.

Wireless communication

ALTEN's consultants have worked with a client on the implementation of a billing and management system for prepaid mobile telephony.

Our people are actively engaged with clients developing GPRS and UMTS infrastructure and handsets in a variety of roles.

Man Machine Interface

ALTEN has provided skilled consultants in MMI design for projects from mobile handsets to large scale database implementations.

Network Management

Roll out and management of a Nationwide data network for the UK National Lottery
Environment: Microwave, ATM, SDH, ISDN, X25, EDI, C, Ingres, VMS
Alten Staff roles:
Project Manager, Capacity Planner, Project Leader, Network Controller

Internet and Intranet

ALTEN's consultants have worked on several major e-commerce and portal site developments, mainly in the areas of active page design, Java applet design and database backend integration.

Client-server

ALTEN provides highly skilled people for most of the common RDBMS and a number of RAD environments. Our people have worked in financial, telecomms and internet implementations, to name but a few.