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WILDIX
Wildix has partnered with ICA
(Independent Communications
Advisors) after the organisation has
gained an exceptional reputation for
providing independent communications
advice and solutions to businesses
throughout the UK.
XELION
Xelion UK has introduced a new
education-sector license fee for its
service. The intention is to make the
Xelion hosted telephony service a
more economically viable option for
schools, colleges and other educational
establishments.
ATLAS
Managed service provider Atlas Cloud
has secured a £2m investment from the
Northern Venture Capital Trust Funds
(VCTs), which are managed by Mercia.
The funding will allow Atlas Cloud to
further develop its range of pay as you
go solutions and pursue its ambitious
growth plans.
AUDPRO DEVELOPS
NEW TOOLKIT FOR
PARTNERS
AUDPRO IS HELPING resellers
discover their hidden
pipelines by re-imagining its
onboarding journey. AudPro’s
online Calculator tool already
enables UC and telephony
providers to estimate the
revenue that could be
realised from their existing
customer pipeline. With
200% mark-ups for each
recording purchased by an
end-user, resellers can enjoy
better margins, higher
customer service scores and
ultimately increased
revenue.
The New Partner Toolkit
has been designed to
resellers are armed with the
facts, figures and case
studies that prove the
returns for end-users.
“With AudPro’s New
Partner Toolkit, UC resellers
can immediately uncover the
large number of
opportunities that already
exist in their pipeline and hit
the ground running, selling
from day one!” Andrew
Jones (pictured), MD of
AudPro.
Consisting of Web, Print
and Email marketing
collateral as well as sales
advice, case study examples
and sales-focused
battlecards, the New Partner
Toolkit guides new partners
through the “do’s and don’ts”
of marketing strategy and
implementation, as well as
contact creation.
Gamma acquires Exactive
GAMMA HAS ACQUIRED Exactive
Holdings Limited. Exactive is a
Unified Communications
specialist and is one of a small
number of Microsoft Teams Voice
Partners operating in the UK. It
has clients in the UK across both
public and enterprise sectors.
Gamma management have
known the Exactive team for a
number of years and have
worked on joint projects such as
London Stock Exchange Group
and the Guinness Partnership.
Similar to Gamma, Exactive has
deep expertise in UCaaS and has
developed a multi-tenant
Microsoft Teams PSTN routing
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platform, Cloud UCX.
Andrew Taylor, Chief Executive
of Gamma, commented on the
acquisition: “I am delighted to
build on our track record of
working with Exactive to bring
customers a complete range of
services for Microsoft Teams.
UCaaS is an ever evolving and
rapidly growing market that we
plan to be at the heart of, across
all customer environments.
Exactive helps us address a part
of the market that is already
embedded in a Microsoft
ecosystem and this will be an
essential part of our UCaaS
strategy in the years ahead.”
STREAM NETWORKS LAUNCHES SD-WAN PROPOSITION
STREAM NETWORKS HAVE
are provided on a payg model
launched their SD-WAN as a
reducing the capex required for
service platform with their recent
individual customer deployments.
investment in Juniper Contrail
In addition, the SD-WAN
and Juniper’s SRX4100 Service
platform is connected to Stream’s
Gateways.
Core aggregation network
The Stream SD-WAN as a
providing low latency Full Fibre,
Service platform enables
Fibre Ethernet, DSL and Mobile
customers and resellers to lower
connectivity from all of the key UK
deployment costs, as the SD-WAN
providers.
Controller (Contrail) and resilient
Matt Shanahan founder and
IPSEC terminating hubs (SRX4100)
CEO of Stream Networks
commented; “We are seeing a
surge in uptake in our SD-WAN as
a service platform, as it gives
customers greater control over
their network, provides easier
access to businesses that host
data in both private and public
clouds, and with the investment
in Contrail and Service Gateways
the holy grail of using SD-WAN to
reduce costs against MPLS can
now be achieved.”
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