Customers
Our Key Customers
All Silvertel modules are designed and manufactured in the UK and delivered to customers around the globe through our network of distributors.
Advisory Notes
Advisory Notes
Silver Telecom’s products are not authorized for use as critical components in life support devices or systems without the express written approval of the Managing Director of Silver Telecom Limited.
Conflict Minerals Declaration
Silvertel Policy Statement for the usage of Responsible Minerals
As a designer and supplier of electronic modules, Silvertel is aware of it’s obligations with regards to laws and regulations regarding “Conflict Minerals”, specifically the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer protection Act, Section 1502, along with the guidelines set out by the OECD regarding the responsible mining of Cobalt.
Silvertel does not directly source or process conflict minerals such as Tin, Tantalum, Tungsten, Gold, Mica or cobalt. However these minerals may be included in the components we buy from other suppliers.
It is Silvertel’s goal to use Tantalum, Tin, Tungsten, Gold, Mica & Cobalt in our products that do not directly or indirectly finance or benefit armed groups in the DRC or adjoining countries, while continuing to support responsible mineral sourcing in the region. Silvertel expects its suppliers to have in place policies and due diligence measures that will enable us to reasonably assure that products and components supplied to us containing conflict minerals are responsibly mined. Silvertel expects its suppliers to comply with the RMI (Responsible Minerals Initiative) Code of Conduct. In support of this policy, Silvertel will: Exercise due diligence by contacting its component suppliers within our supply chain on a yearly basis for all current components to verify their compliance with the regulations. We are currently working with our suppliers to ensure that they are using smelters that are compliant with the RMI Conformant & Active Smelter & Refiner Lists
All new components will be verified as using compliant smelters from the RMI Conformant & Active Smelter & Refiner Lists before approval.
Mr Andrew Pugh
Quality Manager
Key Staff
Steve Edwards
Founder & CEO
Steve has a 1st Class honors degree in Electronics from Reading University. He started his career with AB Electronics and then moved to Mitel Semiconductor. Here he was quickly promoted from Senior Engineer to Product Development Manager and then Head of R&D, where Steve ran Mitel’s team of over 20 design, product and test engineers.
Steve was instrumental in starting Silvertel with 2 Mitel colleagues when he recognized an opportunity to develop high quality, low cost electronic modules for the worldwide telecoms industry. Steve has been the key figure in driving Silvertel’s growth over the last 2 decades.
His excellent grasp of international business and finance has seen him direct the company to its current position as a significant exporter. Steve has set the operating standards on which the company was founded and still operates.
Sean Edwards
Chief Operating Officer
Sean has a degree in International Business Management from the University of Birmingham which included a year studying International Business and Finance at EDHEC Business School in Nice, France.
Sean has spent the previous 10 years working in a variety of International Trade and Finance roles in London. He started working in financial assurance and advisory for Mazars LLP before joining the Department for International Trade (DIT) as Senior Manager working with UK businesses to increase their global exports. Whilst at DIT Sean was seconded to the British Embassy in Tokyo to lead a team promoting UK business growth in Japan. Sean then joined Santander Corporate Bank as a Director within their International banking team focussed on supporting manufacturing businesses with their Financial and International Trade requirements.
Sean joined Silvertel as COO in Feb 2021 and his primary focus is managing the supply chain to support the company’s significant growth. Sean also leads the management team and acts as deputy CEO.
Mike Lewis
Sales & Marketing Director
With a HND in Electronics, Mike has over 30 years of product development experience, notably occupying both technical and commercial management roles at Mitel Semiconductor (now Microsemi). Mike had previously played a key role in developing Mitel’s Telecom Module product line before moving into technical management within the Network Timing & Synchronisation business unit. More recently he was Technical Director for a German-owned company developing electrical heating and cooling products for a wide variety of industrial applications.
Chris Binnie
Sales & Marketing Director
Chris has a degree in Electronics from Swansea University. He started as a project engineer with EADS before moving into product marketing with Mitel Semiconductor. Chris joined Silvertel in 1999 to head the marketing department and was responsible for much of the company’s early sales success particularly in the USA. In 2012 Chris relocated to the USA, becoming Sales Director to eastern and central North America for Silvertel’s US distributor. Chris returned to the UK in 2016 and has been Head of Sales at ASL and recently Director of Distribution Sales, EMEA for Rochester Electronics, a major US corporation.
Operational Management Team
Ian Richards
Design Manager
HNC Electronics, 27 years’ experience at Hitachi and Thomson Digital TV design centre. Ian joined Silvertel in 2006 and is an expert in power design which includes digital programming of microprocessors as well as analog electronics and RF. As well as heading up the design team Ian is the company’s lead designer and is responsible for a significant proportion of our PoE product range. Ian also ensures his team provides first class applications support to our customers.
Andrew Pugh
Quality Manager
BTEC plus City & Guilds in Engineering. Andrew has been Silvertel’s Quality Manager for the last 11 years. Andrew has extensive manufacturing and quality engineering experience with Thomson Broadband, Grundig and Race Electronics. Andrew has been instrumental in implementing and enforcing most of Silvertel’s quality systems and controls. This has resulted in exceptionally low customer returns down at ppm levels.
Eugen Albu
Test Manager
Eugen has a Master’s degree in automation and computers and has 30+ years of experience with Timteh Electronics, Rada Electronics and British Airways. He joined Silvertel in 2020 and is an expert in equipment test design using microcontrollers, and programming as C++, Embedded C, Labvindows CVI, Python. He uses these skills to design and develop the test equipment that is used by our subcontractors to test, characterise, and verify our products.
Emma Jones
Finance and Operations Manager
Degree in English from Swansea University plus ONC in Business Administration. Emma is the company’s longest serving employee, joining 19 years ago. Previously she was a buyer in Quantum Electronics. She heads up our team of 3 customer service staff who book and schedule all customer orders. She is also responsible for placing and scheduling all our production orders on our subcontractors. Emma is the company’s Financial Controller having been mentored by our ex-FD, Reg Hill, who is now retired.
Company Information
Our Approach
What the customer wants and needs is always our primary consideration. We pride ourselves on offering the highest quality, smallest and lowest cost modules which offer first class electrical performance, combined with superb customer support. Our team of professional engineers have the experience, knowledge and commitment to respond positively to practically all customer requirements.
About Us
Founded in 1997 and based in the UK, Silvertel specialises in developing and supplying electronic modules for many thousands of diverse customers around the world. Our products are key components in applications including telecoms, datacoms, security systems, commercial electronic products, IoT and smart solutions. We are justifiably proud of our innovative product range which includes Power over Ethernet, Telephony interfaces, LED driver modules, DC-DC converters, and battery charging controllers. Our products are manufactured in very high volumes, several million modules every year, by UK based CEMs using the latest high speed surface mount technology. This along with our continuing innovation allows us to be cost competitive with manufacturers anywhere in the world. Designing and manufacturing in the UK enables us to provide consistently exceptional quality to help maintain an edge over our competition. As a long standing member of ESTNet, Silvertel is continually striving to build on its strong history of export sales and growth and technical innovation, as evidenced again by our position as winners in the ESTNet exporter of the year awards in 2018.
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Smallest PoE Solutions In The World
Silvertel provide the smallest Power over Ethernet solutions in the world. Our IEEE802.3af (13W), IEEE802.3at (30W) and IEEE802.3bt (85W) modules are significantly smaller than currently available discrete IC solutions.
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Featured Products
PoE-enabled LED Driver for Smart Lighting
Now the IEEE802.3bt specification has been released, PoE has become more suitable for smart lighting. This new standard has added more power, up to 99W, but has also allowed for a lower standby connection. Silvertel is releasing a simple to use, but comprehensive solution for a PoE LED driver module. The Ag210 is a small module that provides the required IEEE802.3bt PoE signature, generates and regulates the constant current to drive standard LED units. This current output is configurable from 350mA to 1A. The module has an I2C bus input to control the flicker-free dimming output. This module does not require an electrolytic capacitor ensuring that the reliability and life expectancy is as high as the LED.
Low Profile, High Power, Non-Isolated, DC-DC Converter
The Ag7010 module is a high power Buck Converter Module optimised to work with USB-C (PD) voltages (9V/15V or 20V). It is a non-isolated product with a single, low noise, low ripple output capable of delivering 120W @ 10A. Conversion efficiency is typically 95% providing an energy efficient means of deriving the desired output voltage.
The module is ideal for applications including Monitors/TV’s, Bluetooth Speakers, Gaming Consoles, 2D & 3D Scanners and Printers, Routers, Network Switches and Modems. Other applications include as an end-point converter for distributed 12/24V for cameras, monitoring systems and industrial applications. The Ag7010 incorporates over-current/short circuit and thermal protection. Access to an on-board PMbus (I2C) interface allows intelligent control and monitoring of the supply. An Under Voltage Lock Out feature ensures that the module does not incur damage from ‘out of range’ input voltages. The Ag7010 is supplied in an extremely compact, lead-less packaging format, designed to be surface-mounted thereby enabling efficient heat transfer. The Ag7010 is a flexible, simple to use DC/DC Buck Converter solution providing an efficient means of deriving a stable, high power, low noise supply to your product. Coupled with intelligent control and monitoring the Ag7010 provides cost-effective, feature-rich functionality.
