Tuesday's CP Expo Company News: Zayo, C3 Complete, Granite, More
Here are Tuesday's supplier news headlines from CP Expo.
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Zayo Introduces Shielded Internet Access Offer in US and Canada
New Package Provides a Superior, Secure and Affordable Internet Experience for Enterprises
BOULDER, Colo. – November 1, 2021 – Zayo Group Holdings, Inc., a leading global provider of fiber-based communications solutions, today announced a new product offer available to new and existing customers in key markets in the United States and Canada. The offer, called Shielded Internet Access, includes some of Zayo’s most popular services: Dedicated Internet Access, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Protection and CloudLink. Shielded Internet Access is initially available in Phoenix, Dallas/Fort Worth, Denver, Indianapolis, Seattle and Toronto with availability in additional markets coming in 2022.
The competitively priced offer allows customers to bundle their internet, internet security, and their direct connection to the cloud – all delivered on one multi-service port. Customers will benefit from the combination of high-performing internet service and multi-layered DDoS protection, which uses advanced technology to identify potential threats before they negatively impact business.
“Shielded Internet Access demonstrates Zayo’s commitment to supporting our customers’ demands by delivering streamlined, best-in-class solutions that are easy to implement,” said Dan Stoll, Managing Director of Regional Networks at Zayo. “Our unmatched global network combined with this new bundle of services provides customers with the secure connectivity that takes them anywhere they need to be in the most convenient, cost-effective way possible.”
In addition to this new product offer, Zayo is continuing investment in and expansion of network infrastructure, including in the markets with first access to Zayo’s new product offer. This includes increasing connections to buildings and data centers, and enabling more high capacity connectivity to public and private sector customers.
The expanded network in Phoenix includes approximately 100 route miles in the West Valley, including Goodyear, Avondale, El Mirage and other surrounding communities, providing customers with high capacity connectivity as well as fiber path diversity. Zayo is also building 200 route miles of fiber in Pinal County, spanning the development areas connecting Phoenix and Tucson, as part of a federal program, known as E-rate, that provides schools, libraries, and consortia funding for internet access.
In the Dallas/Fort Worth area, Zayo has deployed 105 miles of new fiber in 2021 with another 60 miles planned for deployment in 2022. This is in addition to the recently announced 822-mile long haul dark fiber route connecting Dallas to Atlanta, two of the most important data and colocation markets in the country. Two additional long haul routes, one connecting Dallas to Phoenix to Los Angeles, and another connecting Dallas to Denver, will be completed in the third-quarter of 2022 and will add nearly 2,700 route miles to Zayo’s extensive North American footprint.
In Denver, Zayo has 532 miles of new long haul dark fiber routes providing a connection to Salt Lake City along the I-70 corridor with 177 additional miles of long haul fiber planned for 2022, strengthening Zayo’s existing route between Denver and Dallas. Zayo also enabled 400G wavelength capacity between Denver and Omaha and will complete a 400G wavelength to Salt Lake City by year’s end. A final 400G enabled route connecting Denver to Dallas is scheduled for completion in the first-quarter of 2022.
Zayo continues to invest in and expand its network infrastructure in key markets globally and plans for additional product packages in 2022. For more information about Zayo’s Shielded Internet Access, please visit https://go.zayo.com/SIA.
About Zayo Group Holdings, Inc.
Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. provides mission-critical bandwidth to the world’s most impactful companies, fueling the innovations that are transforming our society. Zayo’s 126,000-mile network in North America and Europe includes extensive metro connectivity to thousands of buildings and data centers. Zayo’s communications infrastructure solutions include dark fiber, private data networks, wavelengths, Ethernet, dedicated internet access and data center connectivity solutions. Zayo owns and operates a Tier 1 IP backbone and through its CloudLink service, Zayo provides low-latency private connectivity that attaches enterprises to their public cloud environments. Zayo serves wireless and wireline carriers, media, tech, content, finance, healthcare and other large enterprises. For more information, visit https://zayo.com
Granite Sponsors TrainOurTroops at Channel Partners Conference & Expo in Las Vegas.
Initiative Introduces Veterans to Career Opportunities in the Telecom & IT Sales Channel
QUINCY, Mass., & LAS VEGAS, – November 2, 2021 – Granite Telecommunications, a leading provider of communications solutions to businesses and government agencies throughout North America, is sponsoring TrainOurTroops at the Channel Partners Conference & Expo, an event for telecom and IT sales channels, November 1-4, 2021.
TrainOurTroops is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides U.S. veterans and their spouses with advanced online education and certification programs to ignite their civilian careers.
With the support of sponsors like Granite, TrainOurTroops brings veterans to Channel Partners Conference & Expo, so they can attend education sessions, network and make contacts that help them achieve their career goals.
“For the last several years, Granite has been a key sponsor of TrainOurTroops, enabling us to connect veterans with opportunities in the tech channel at the Channel Partners conferences,” said Glen Brynteson, founder and president of TrainOurTroops. “Veterans who attend the event are exposed to IT pros and companies that can help them with their career journey — whether they’re leveraging our training to transition from military service, to tackle underemployment or start their own consulting businesses.”
To access free TrainOurTroops training, veterans can register at trainourtroops.org.
This is the seventh time that Granite has sponsored veterans attending the conference since the initiative was launched by Channel Partners in 2016.
“Granite is honored to be sponsoring TrainOurTroops at Channel Partners Conference & Expo again this year,” said Charlie Pagliazzo, vice president of channels for Granite. “We admire the work that TrainOurTroops does for veterans, especially as a volunteer-based organization, and we’re thrilled to support them at every Channel Partners event.”
Stop by the TrainOurTroops Base Camp at Booth 277 at Channel Partners Conference & Expo to meet veterans and a special guest service dog. Visit Granite at Booth 753 to learn more about our full suite of advance communications services.
About Granite
Granite delivers one-stop communications solutions to multilocation businesses and government agencies throughout the United States and Canada. The $1.65 billion company serves more than two-thirds of the Fortune 100 companies in the United States and has 1.75 million voice and data lines under management. Granite launched in 2002 and grew quickly by helping businesses simplify sourcing and managing local and long-distance phone services with one point of contact and one invoice for all their locations nationwide. Today, Granite is the leader in aggregating Plain Old Telephone Services (POTS) and has extended its unique value proposition – “one company, one contact, one bill” – to include a range of advance business communications services, including Internet access, SD-WAN, wireless WAN, hosted PBX, SIP trunking, mobile voice and data, mobile device management, managed security, network integration and much more. Granite employs more than 2,400 people at its headquarters in Quincy, Mass., and nine regional offices nationwide. For more information, visit www.granitenet.com.
Media Contact:
Lauren Grenier
Marketing Director
Granite
781.884.5290
[email protected]
Reinvent Telecom Launches Wholesale Business Messaging Platform
Two-Way SMS & MMS Solution Presents New MRR for Reseller Partners
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. – November 2, 2021 – Reinvent Telecom, a provider of private-labeled cloud-based unified communications (UC), SIP Trunking, Microsoft Teams Direct Routing and contact center solutions, announced today the launch of the Reinvent Wholesale Business Messaging Platform, which enables a new monthly recurring revenue (MRR) opportunity for the company’s reseller partners.
The Reinvent Wholesale Business Messaging Platform allows resellers to enable their business customers to connect with their customers via SMS and MMS messaging using a business’ main phone number or toll-free number.
Reinvent’s Wholesale Business Messaging cloud-based business-class solution is ideal for:
· Notifications
· Sales and Marketing Promotions
· Live Interactions
· Appointment Reminders
· Delivery Scheduling and Tracking
· Customer Surveys
· Customer Support and Trouble Tickets
· One-to-One Customer Interactions
· More
“Reinvent’s business messaging platform is a wholesale messaging solution with true differentiation in the market. The platform goes beyond basic broadcast messages to enable business-class functionality, such as automated series campaigns, workflows, simultaneous conversation management and one-to-one interactions,” said Jeff Kramarczyk, Product Manager at Reinvent. “This new wholesale product has both the capabilities and the pricing flexibility for our partners to win in all business messaging applications.”
The Reinvent Wholesale Business Messaging Platform comes equipped with a complete suite of customizable and programmable SMS and MMS features, including:
· Textcast – Broadcast news to communities, customers or employees about sales, events and more.
· Timetext – Schedule texts to be sent at a specific date/time for sales follow-up, special offers, or additional customer information.
· Survey – Get feedback from your customers about service quality, new products, purchasing plans and more with quick text polls.
· Series – Keep leads engaged, customers loyal and employees informed with text campaigns over days, weeks or months.
· Tags – Tag customers to events, interactions and campaigns for targeted and personalized texts.