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Telsy is a manufacturer of information and communication security equipment,
based in Turin (Italy). The company started the development of secure voice
equipment in 1971 and is still in business today (2012) selling a variety of
digital solutions for voice, fax, data and storage (see below).
Some of Telsy's encryption devices were sold by other companies
as OEM products.
➤ Telsy crypto equipment on this website
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Telsy started in 1971 with the desire to develop and manufacture secure
communication systems for the government, the police force and the
corporate sector.
Their first product was the
STS analogue scrambler which
was sold to the Italian government and and some selected companies.
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In the mid-1980s even newer devices were introduced, such as
the TX-900 series
for secure mobile phones,
the KD-100c
digital link encryptor
and the KV-3000,
Telsy's first fully digital voice encryptor based on DSP technology.
The latter exceeded all sales forecasts for many years.
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In 1990, the product range was modernised once again, and a series of
new highly-compact devices with state-of-the-art Digital Signal
Processing (DSP) techniques was introduced, starting with the
Cryptophone 7000
in 1990.
The Cryptophone 7000 was succeeded by the
Cryptophone 7900 in 1992,
which was finally complemented by the
Allfax 3000 fax encryptor
in 1993.
In the late 1990s, the first products for IP-based networks
were developed, which have since changed today's communication landscape,
as nearly everything is now IP-based.
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Telsy has since made the move to even more powerful technologies,
such as Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), IP-based communication
and GSM. By 2012, Telsy had become a modern company that supplied quipment
for secure communications world-wide to over 50 countries, and in particular to the
Italian Government and to the Italian Ministry of Defence (MoD).
In 2009, Telsy became part of the Telecom Italia Group 1 (TIM), which in turn
fell into the hands of the French media group Vivendi in 2017, when the latter
acquired a 24% share in TIM. This raised concerns with
the Italian goverment, as two strategic companies – Sparkle and Telsy –
were no longer under Italian control. To make matters worse,
Vivendi lost control over TIM, when in May 2018, US activist hedge fund
Elliot Advisors managed to acquire 49.84%, whereas Vivendi only had 47.18%.
As of late-2018, the Telsy website seems to have disappeared completely [1].
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Telecom Italia (TIM) is the former Italian Telecommunications state-owned
monopolist.
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In February 2012, Telsy donated three of their historical crypto devices
to Crypto Museum:
a TDS-2003,
a TDS-2004M
and a TX-900s.
These devices have meanwhile been described in detail on this website.
We wish to thank Telsy for their generous contribution to Crypto Museum.
In April 2012, Telsy donated another two devices: a
TDS-2004 and
a Cryptophone 7000 from the early 1990s.
Both devices are fully operational and are described in detail on this
website. Once more we should like to thank Telsy for their kind gesture
and support to Crypto Museum.
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