vtec, Inc. provides Internet Protocol (IP) dispatch console solutions for the manufacturing, transportation, public safety, utility, business, and government markets. For more than 30 years, customers have chosen Avtec’s award-winning technology for their mission-critical dispatch centers. Avtec was founded by Troy Branning in 1979 as an engineering consulting business for railroad customers. In 1980, Avtec won a design-build contract from the Atkinson Topeka & Sante Fe Railroad for a multi-user, computer-based, radio-telephone console system. The Advanced Concept Communications Exchange and Signaling System (ACCESS) was developed for this project and went on to capture a majority of the U.S.