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I see two major applications of colocation services for the channel. Firstly as part of an end customer’s MPLS VPN solution and secondly as a way of hosting a reseller’s own hosted applications with close integration of the network infrastructure required to deliver services to clients.
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You will read many complex definitions of Unified Communications but at its core it allows a message to be sent via one medium and received or replied to via another medium. Simple examples of this have existed on the physical desktop for a while e.g. voicemail arriving as email and the interest now is in moving Unified Communications into the cloud. What has hindered this to date has been the connectivity which has been too expensive, too slow or too unreliable.
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The rise of the teleworker in business has been significant – it’s not unusual to hear dogs barking in the background of conference calls these days!
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Next Generation Access services are mainly delivered using Fibre Optic technology and the physical Fibre optic circuit remains the same regardless of the supplier.
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When six members of Griffin's Customer Services Team called in with flulike symptoms, Griffin implemented their business continuity plan and all staff that could, worked from home.
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There are many reasons why comms aggregators exist and have been successful, especially by enabling resellers to more easily take solutions to market sourced from the larger carriers. We caught up with Lee Broxson, Head of Sales at Griffin, to find out what the next big opportunities are in the aggregator channel.
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Whatever you do between now and Christmas, make sure you introduce MPLS to your customers, advises Adrian Sunderland, CTO at Griffin Internet.
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Next Generation Networks (NGNs) are designed to transform the way businesses communicate and improve performance. In this article, Comms Solutions highlights the key reasons for data resellers to fully connect their customers to the latest NGN voice and data solutions.
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Over the last twelve months Griffin Internet has launched a range of connectivity products for resellers, up to 16Mb/s LLU ADSL, uncontended SDSL replacement solutions and Agile MPLS networks. The most successful of these has been our agile MPLS product which incorporates all of our specialist business connectivity products including QoS (tailored specifically for voice) that we launched over two years ago.
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Andrew Dickinson, Sales and Marketing Director at Griffin Internet says that the vast majority of resellers cannot buy directly from NGN operators because it is expensive and difficult to connect with them.
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