Overview

Abelon Systems Limited is a UK based hardware and software engineering services company delivering its products and services to a worldwide market.

We are a leading developer, enabler and supplier of real time embedded operating system technology for the bespoke hardware marketplace.

We bring our wealth of embedded systems experience to the challenge of building technically complex products. We take the risk out of product development and allow YOU to get on with developing your application.

We can:

  • Bring up the hardware
  • Supply or develop a BSP
  • Supply all the necessary device drivers
  • Supply all of the infrastructure you need to support your application development
  • All code is written in standard C or C++ with all documentation browsable using any standard web browser.

Building a well-structured application development environment is the foundation of successful product development. Our hard-earned engineering skills will get you there.

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- Management Team Biographies

Ian Smith – Managing Director

As Managing Director Ian provides Abelon with experienced business and technical leadership, developed though many years at the leading edge of the communications industry.

Prior to helping start Abelon in 2002, Ian was the main architect for the Spider Systems Primary Rate ISDN implementation and became Director of WAN Development, leading up teams developing ISDN, Frame Relay and other WAN technologies.

Along with Duncan and Adrian, Ian founded the Ascend Communications R&D facility in the UK, based in Edinburgh and became Director of R&D for Lucent Technologies after the merger with Ascend. Whilst at Lucent he was project manager for the MAX 3000 remote access server and Definity Remote Office VOIP PBX projects.

Ian has a BSc (Hons) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Heriot-Watt University, an MBA from the University of Edinburgh, and is a Chartered Engineer.


Duncan Walker - Director

At Abelon, in common with other senior staff, Duncan is highly technically focused. He works hands on, leading system architecture, integration and design projects.

Duncan joined Spider Systems in 1986 from a background of WAN protocols gained in Edinburgh Regional Computing Service. There he continued to work with WAN protocols eventually becoming a founder staff member of the Spider Software Business Unit. He led the SpiderX.25 and SpiderISDN development team, moving on to manage the Development and Engineering Services groups. In Shiva, he was the Director of Special Engineering, managing customisation projects for major customers. He joined Ascend Communications in 1998 where he managed the European sustaining engineering group, a role he continued to fulfill after the merger with Lucent Technologies.

Duncan has a Bsc (Hons) in Computer Science from Edinburgh University.


Adrian McKie - Director

Adrian focuses on major client and project management. In this customer facing role, Adrian also provides systems requirements, architecture and design consultancy.

Adrian worked on Protocol Testing and standardization at the National Physical Laboratory. From there he moved to Spider Systems, where he was a founder staff member of the Spider Software Business Unit. He led the SpiderOSI development team and ported SpiderStreams and SpiderTCP to Windows for Microsoft and Reuters. After the merger of Spider and Shiva, Adrian moved to a software architecture role for the Integrator and LanRover products. For the next four years Adrian was the chief architect for Lucent's next generation Voice over Packet Media Gateway, leading a team of 70 software and hardware development staff.

Adrian has a Bsc (Hons) in Computer Science from Stirling University.