Who we are?

Aarenet is a leading technology and solutions provider for carriers, service providers and enterprises with a product portfolio of reliable, secure and private Voice and UCC communication services.

Why us?

Aarenet systems are planned in detail in personal contact, custom designed, implemented on time and operated with excellent quality at maximum availability. 

The challenge has always been to adapt to the rapidly changing market.

Company milestones

2004

Founding of company

2006

First commercial carrier deployment in Switzerland

2009

First multi-tenant solution

2010

Sales expansion to Germany

2011

vPBX functionality integrated

2014

Business development in South East Asia

2015

First customers in South East Asia

2015

Setup of branch office in Vietnam

2016

Sales expansion to Italy

2017

First Tier1 carrier customer in South East Asia

2017

First customer in Italy

2019

Integration of MS Teams direct dialling

2020

Development of the UC portfolio

2021

Business development in USA

2021

Integration of Contact Center solution

2022

First customers in USA

"We regard it as an essential part of our work to support our customers until their system is running perfectly.", "David Reich, senior Project Manager"

Our management in a glance

Aarenet Management encapsulated extensive product and market knowledge in the communication market. With its knowledge it can tailor the solutions even better to the requirements of the customers. 

From left to right

Frank Remmers, VP Product Management

Frank gained knowledge with several international Tier 1 carriers like BT Global Services and held the position of Country Manager of Telefonica Switzerland from 2009 until 2013. He holds an MSc in Electrotechnical Engineering from the Twente University of Technology in the Netherlands and joined Aarenet in 2014.

Felix Jakob, CEO

Felix gained his international experience in different European Countries as well as in India and the US. The success of Aarenet arises from his experience and profound technical know-how, his managerial skills in operational and strategic positioning and his professional network.

Daniel Jaggi, Architecture

Daniel gained his vast experience in IP based technologies as a solution architect for data-products and lead architect for data enabling products with Swisscom Mobile. He joined Aarenet in October 2006 and brings the full breadth of experience to excel the development activities in Aarenet.

Emanuel Eggenberg, VP Operations

Emanuel accumulated profound experiences in project- and product-management and held several positions including appointments as project manager for the first IP based LAN-PBX of Ascom. His excellent know-how in VoIP and ISDN plus his sound understanding of the international markets is an invaluable contribution to the success of Aarenet.

Christian Häberli, VP R&D / deputy CEO

Christian works in the domain of VoIP since 2005, as embedded SW developer, head of R&D and COO at different companies. Starting with Aarenet in 2016, he took the responsibility for the operations in Switzerland and Italy, including the technical support. In December 2018 he took over the responsibility for R&D and was appointed as deputy CEO. Christian holds a PhD in experimental physics and is experienced in project management, technology management and software development.

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Bao Vo, Director - Aarenet APAC

Bao has over 20 years of Telecommunications experience spanning scientific, engineering, operations and business development roles. He holds a Mathematics degree from the University of Waterloo – Canada. His broad international Telecommunications experience provides strong synergy with Aarenet’s business expansion initiative into the Pacific Region.

Michel Balabio, Regional Director Southern Europe

Michel has over 15 years of experience in the Telecommunication market and covered various roles focusing on sales and business development assignments. Results oriented and capable to integrate with all types of organizations, Michel is passionate in building strong business relationships and long term customer collaborations. Specifically in the VoIP and ICT market segments, he has enabled consistent revenue growth and has implemented strategic key account management and tracked sales results with enterprise channels and Telco Service Providers.

Karl Steinke, Regional Director Central- and Northern Europe

Karl has more than 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. He has founded, successfully managed and profitably resold several companies in both Germany and Switzerland.  As CEO of a telecom provider in Switzerland, he himself was a satisfied customer of Aarenet.  He holds an MBA degree from McGill University – Montreal – Canada and a BA from the University of Wisconsin – USA.

Aarenet Switzerland

Aarenet Sales Meeting in Berne 2022

Mr. Felix Jakob, CEO and Mr. Bao Vo, Regional Director APAC

Aarenet Switzerland

Aarenet Sales Meeting in Berne 2022

Aarenet Sales Meeting in Berne 2022

Aarenet Vietnam