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Are Your Digital Business Assets Locked Up as Safely as Your Physical Assets?

By Dan Baldwin, Editor
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My brother who lives in Alaska says that he and all his neighbors never lose their car keys because they always leave the keys in the ignition of the car.

When I asked my brother if that practice doesn't lead to an increase in car theft he said, "No because everyone in Alaska also owns a lot of guns - and we know how to shoot them at car thieves".

Well, think what you will of Sarah Palin, but I for one would not try to steal her car out of her driveway or the cars of any of her neighbors because I'm convinced they have a credible security system in place.

Does your business have a credible security plan in place to prevent cyber thieves from snooping around your digital asset "business driveway" to see what unprotected information you have lying around that's just begging to be stolen or corrupted so your employees or customers can't use it?

Take a minute to watch the small business data security and protection video below provided by CenturyLink for a few useful tips. After that call your local telecom agent or independent telecom carrier sales partner to schedule a digital asset security audit of your business.

 

Let an Independent Telecom Carrier Partner Help You With a Data Security Check

As an experienced telecom agent and an independent telecom network services sales partner we help our clients conduct security audits of their digital assets to confirm that they are properly protected or confirm that vulnerabilities exist.

In the past, a significant investment in "on-premises" data security hardware and software was required to protect corporate information. Today however, as more businesses migrate their information off-premises" and into more secure public or private "clouds", much more comprehensive data security is available to even the smallest of businesses at a fraction of the price that would have been paid to protect the same assets in the past.

Give us a call so we can share with you the benefit of our data security experience.

 

CenturyLink Small Business Tech Tips Video: Protect Your Business

 

Video Transcript:

Your digital assets are as valuable to your business as your physical ones. Losses due to security threats are extremely costly and can even prevent you from running your business. Every year over 100 million records containing personal information are lost or stolen, and data collection is now the fastest growing cause of all business interruptions.

In a recent study conducted by Symantec nearly 1/3 of all small businesses are not using even basic anti-virus protection, almost half don't backup their desktop PCs, and 59% have no endpoint protection.

So what technologies do you need to keep your business safe?

1. List all your information systems and devices to make sure you have security in place. Just because an intrusion hasn't happened does not mean it won't. Half of all technology users have experienced some form of security threat. Hardware failure, natural disaster, power outages, viral intrusion and theft can all get expensive, and you can lose a lot of productivity. 
   
   Data backup is a great way to protect your data. By copying it to secure devices at your location or online, it assures your information will be safe from intrusion or a natural disaster, and you can back up your data manually or with automatic systems that work after hours. Most data backup systems include recovery.
   
   
2.  Information that is valuable to you is also valuable to a thief. Data you own on customers, inventory, employees, vendors and operations is just as important as the physical investment you make in your equipment. Networks and e-mail firewalls prevent unauthorized access, and security passwords should be carefully created and changed regularly. 
   
   Encryption software effectively scrambles vital content on storage devices or an e-mail for descrambling later by authorized persons using a decoding key. Everything is performed by the software so usually all you will need to do is input a password. Both measures may take some effort to implement and work with but in the end you save your business from potential hazards.
   
   
3.  Consider all the vulnerabilities because it only takes one weak link. Anything that can be accessed using a mobile device or using Wi-Fi portals can be at risk including web sites, Internet e-mail, accounting, inventory, manufacturing, and vendor data. Even a credit card reader can be compromised and all your transactions can be lost. 
   
   Make sure security and redundancy is in place at every point of entry. Web hosting has to be reliable and secure. Anti-virus, ani-spyware and anti-spam software can all help monitor your entire internal network and protect against unwanted activity.
   
   
4.  Not all theft is electronic. Security cameras with central monitoring enable you to monitor multiple physical locations in realtime. It's easy. You just need an Internet connection and cameras.

It is important to have several different forms of security in place to ensure every aspect of your business is safe. Your checklist for protective measures should start with the following.

1. List all systems and data backup plans and run a test to make sure they are working. 
   
   
2. Consider firewalls and/or encryption software to prevent unauthorized access.
   
   
3.  For web protection, make sure your web hosting is secure and you have anti-virus and anti-spam software in place.
   
   
4.  Don't forget the security of your physical business location.

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Improve Your Business Operations by Improving Your Business Communications

By Dan Baldwin, Editor
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If you've got operations problems in your business you know you're loosing money.

So where's the best place to start looking to find something in your operations that's broken that you can actually afford to fix?

Start first by looking at your voice & data communications systems.

Many business owners have discovered that the root of their business operations problems were actually found in the way their business was communicating information between business units within their company and their customers, prospects and suppliers.

 

How do you Connect, Transmit and Protect your Business Information?

As the short video below suggests, finding the root of operations problems can often be as simple as confirming how you are connecting your different business operation units to each other, how your units are transmitting information to one another and how that information is protected before, during and after transit.

Should you connect over public or private networks?  If you can afford a private MPLS network to connect your multiple, geographically dispersed business units you will command the ability to closely monitor and protect all aspects of your operations.

If cost is an issue, creating an IP-VPN using cheaper public Internet connections like DSL or coax cable works for may businesses but the higher long term labor costs of managing a public Internet IP-VPN could prove more costly in the long run.

For more tips please watch the short video below from CenturyLink that provides tips for improving your business operations.

 

Let a Telecom Agent or Independent Carrier Sales Partner Diagnose Your Ops Problem

When it comes to identifying and cost effectively solving communications problems that are creating operational problems for your business, no one has more experience than your local telecom agent or independent carrier sales partner.

Agents and partners are vendor neutral and so they can share with you all the communications war stories that they've learned from their other customers who've already solved some of the problems that you are currently struggling with. 

To find a "Recommended Partner" in your area please visit www.BusinessPhoneNews.com and click on "Recommended Members".

 

CenturyLink Small Businesses Tech Tips Video: Improve Your Business Operations

 

Video Transcript:

Technology is vital to improving the operations of your small business. It can greatly increase your efficiency. In fact, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics, business productivity increased at a 3.6% annual rate during just the first quarter of 2010. Much of this increase is due to technology.

So, what technologies do you need to gain maximum productivity?

1. Start with connectivity. You need a reliable and secure high-speed internet connection. As your business grows, so will website and e-mail traffic. There are a range of options possible from basic popular DSL, cable or satellite to a T1, PRI, ATM, frame relay or even fiber optics as you need to send and receive more and more data. Make sure you research your options and talk about them with your service provider to make sure your business is getting the best connection for your needs.
   
   You may want to consider taking advantage of Internet-based computing options like cloud computing. Cloud computing is a technology that lets you access services offered in the Internet cloud. This is usually done through a third party and utilizes their service for data storage and management. The benefits are numerous. Cloud computing is an on demand, self-service, pay as you go, use only what you want model.
   
   
2. Pick an e-mail system you can count on. Your e-mail does more than allow you to communicate with customers and vendors. It serves as a second address for your business. Most Internet service providers offer a choice of e-mail account technology. The basic two options are either POP or IMAP.
   
   POP is the more basic option and perfect if you read your messages on one computer and don't mind storing them on your machine. Choose IMAP if you access your e-mail through  multiple machines or if you want to store them on your provider's server.  To reinforce your brand, invest in a vanity e-mail address that lists your company's name as your domain. For example, [email protected]. Most Internet service providers offer vanity e-mail for a small fee.
   
   
3. Take charge of how you manage and store your data. Instead of storing all of your files on your laptop, select a data storage management system that simplifies retrieval and protects data from loss. Often the first step is to decide whether or not you need a server. If so, consider whether you want it at your location or if you would like to rent space on one through a third party.
   
   You have several data storage options. Some examples to consider are network area storage (NAS), direct attached storage (DAS), and storage area network (SAN). Being proactive and researching the options can save you time each day and protect you from possible loss.

Wise technology investments to improve your operations will make you more productive. Use this checklist to ensure you are on track.

1. Choose the right Internet connection.
2. Decide which e-mail system is right for you.
3. Proactively manage and store data.

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Can a Wide Area Network Aggregate Cable, 4G & DSL? Yes (with our WAN Optimization Toolkit & Buyers Guide)

By Dan Baldwin, Editor
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When it comes to getting the very most bandwidth for the very least amount of money business owners ask, "If a coax cable broadband internet connection works just fine at my home, why can't I use coax cable on my business wide area network or WAN"?"

Why indeed?!

The business-class phone companies will all answer this customer question with, "Cable's just a 'best effort' consumer grade product that you can't trust for business applications..."

Other times the phone companies will just fall on the ground and beg, "No! Please don't go cable!"

Well chiding and begging aside, if patching together cheap internet connections can be done using cable, 4G/LTE, DSL and fiber - shouldn't it be tried by cost conscious business owners?

Absolutely!

Sometimes it works great and sometimes it doesn't work very well at all. It all kind of depends on what kind of business applications you're running over your WAN and how sensitive the applications are to network speed and latency.

 

Where Does One Start?  The Yellow Pages or our WAN Toolkit & Buyers Guide

"Aggregated WANs" have been successfully created by many businesses looking for an inexpensive backup or an alternative to expensive MPLS networks.

Creating one simply requires a great deal of patience and labor as doing it successfully requires successfully interfacing with dozens of different Internet service providers or "ISPs" depending on how many different locations your business has and in what part of the country they are located in.

 

How Much Do You Do Yourself?

A lot, a little or none. Again, depending on your tolerance for dealing with all the ISPs you way want to engage the services of a professional WAN independent sales partner, aggregator, reseller or integrator.

If you type "WAN optimization" or "WAN aggregation" into your favorite search engine you'll be amazed at how many vendors you can find that want to help you with this sort of WAN aggregation project. Many solve the problem with people. Others solve the problem with better "secret sauce".

Let us give you some free advise.

We're in the business of helping business owners and IT decision makers navigate the murky WAN optimization vendors. Whether you want a gold-plated MPLS network or just something that works but at the least possible price - we can direct you to the vendors that can help.

That's what we do. Please give us a call.

Bullets, Barns and Bandwidth (Prepare your business for the next asteroid)

By Dan Baldwin, Editor
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So let's say you're an interstellar asteroid bent on doing whatever is required to interrupt the non-stop internet broadcasting of cute kitten videos from the planet Earth.

What do you aim for? One of the communications satellites spinning around the Earth (kind of like hitting a bullet with a bullet) or do aim for the Earth (kind of like hitting a barn).

I'm not sure asteroids actually give wanton destruction of internet kitten videos this much thought, but if they did, I'm betting that they aim for the barn over the bullet.

 

Do What Today to Avoid Bandwidth Interruption Tomorrow? Think Satellites & Cloud

Whether it's a "Superstorm Sandy", a 150-foot asteroid named DA12 or just 30-inches of snow falling on a Monday morning, it's obvious that both Mother Nature and Divine providence don't really care whether our phones work, our employees can get to work or if our internet is connected. But you do.

As a business owner or a telecom and technology systems manager, your job is to keep your employees productive and connected no matter where they are stuck.  To do this you need to move your data and applications to "the cloud" and be able to get an internet connection from a satellite.

Since most disasters that a business can plan for are regional in nature, it's best to plan NOT TO HAVE all your critical business data and applications in just one region.  

Watch the CenturyLink video below for a short tutorial of how "the cloud" puts your business critical data and applications into hardened, dispersed and secure data centers around the country and immune to a disaster that affects just one region of the country.

But what's the point of having your data and applications survive if you can't connect to them?  That's where a business continuity Internet connection for a company like X2nSat comes in. Even large regional disasters don't take out orbiting satellites.

 

Call Us Today to Get a Business Continuity Plan Customized for Your Business

CenturyLink and X2nSat are just two of dozens of business continuity and disaster backup telecom and technology vendors that an independent technology sales partner can integrate into a solution that's customized for your business.

Which combination of vendors is right for you?  Call us and let us help you pick the right ones. 

 

How the Cloud Protects Your Business Data & Applications

 

 

Business Continuity Solutions Overview: How to keep your business connected with advanced satellite technology

By Dan Baldwin, Editor
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When your business absolutely, positively has to be connected all the time - satellite offers "business connection protection" for disaster recovery.

 

The Importance of Connectivity

Business continuity is a vital arm of large and small businesses alike, assuring constant connectivity and resilience in today's increasingly digital world. Virtually every process of modern enterprise operations involve network interface, increasing productivity while also making the entire organization vulnerable to network disruption. Productivity, logistics, revenue and employee safety are significantly impacted when primary connectivity is down for even a short period.

While everyday factors such as human error and equipment failure cause the majority of minor disconnections, the constant threat from excavation incidents, acts of terrorism and increasingly occurring natural disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, floods and fires can take networks down for extended periods of time.  Some of these risks could take your organization offline for only an hour, others for weeks, but in a competitive and highly-automated environment, even minutes of lost communication between company sites or processes can have significant results. In a recent internal study by Hewlett Packard, it was found that unexpected network downtime costs their organization approximately $900,000 per hour.

 

Download, Read or Listen to Our Whitepaper Interview with Garrett Hill

X2nSat is a business based in California that specializes in business continuity and disaster recovery solutions that utilize an affordable, business class satellite technology.

Click here to view and print a seven-page whitepaper interview I recently conducted with X2nSat CEO Garrett Hill.  In the whitepaper Mr. Hill provides a detailed overview for his business continuity and disaster recovery satellite solutions and provides a competitive comparison to related solutions.

Click the audio player below to listen to the interview now or download the MP3.

 

 

Does a Satellite-Based Business Continuity Solution Make Sense for Your Business? Call Us!

Long gone are the latency challenges that have previously prevented businesses from seriously considering satellite technology as the wireless data link they use to augment their wide area data network.

If you are currently considering 3G, 4G, LTE or WiMax wireless data as part of your business continuity or disaster recovery solutions, such as the one shown in the diagram below, please contact a recommended solution partner in your area to learn how a managed satellite solution from X2nSat can provide a 2 meg symmetrical wireless data connection that may be far superior and more economical.

 

 

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Here's Your 5-Point 2013 Office Communications Technology Checklist (to Not Get Fired)

By Dan Baldwin, Editor
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Sure, the economy seems to be picking up a bit but 2013 would still be a rotten year to get fired by your boss (or your customers).  

To help you keep your job (or make more money), following is a short, 5-point checklist of what you need to be looking at in the area of "office communications technology".

Please run through this checklist as soon as you can because "unified communications" is getting cheaper and sticking with outdated technology is getting more expensive.

1. Connect Your Offices Better - The same connections that connect your computers together in your office are now inexpensively available to connect your offices together in a secure environment.

Ethernet & MPLS are two technologies that allow any business owner to use to connect the local area network (LAN) of each separate office over a single wide area network (WAN) to eliminate the perceived communications barrier of distance.

 

2. Bond Better Bandwidth - If the contracts for the bandwidth you're using to connect your offices together or to connect to the internet are more than twelve months old then you're either paying too much or you're missing out on needed diversity.

Most MPLS WANs that have been around for a while are creeping along at T-1 speeds of 1.54 megs at very high prices. If you're got a T-1 based MPLS, make sure you're getting the best price and check out how cheaply you can "bond" more and better bandwidth to or around your current WAN connections.

What constitutes "better"? Cheaper and faster. While an MPLS network is still viewed by many as the most secure way to communicate critical data between locations, not all of your business traffic needs to traverse over a gold-plated WAN. Take all your business "junk" data traffic off your MPLS and route it over low-cost data connections like cable, DSL or satellite using either equipment or software that shapes and prioritizes your business data traffic.

 

3. Unify Your Phone System in the Cloud - Seriously, why is your phone system still in your broom closet, server room or basement? While a reasonable argument can still be made that owning a phone system might be cheaper in the long run than "renting" one via many current "hosted VoIP" or "unified communications" business phone system solutions, even businesses that own their own phone systems are moving them to "the cloud".

If you're a business owner with multiple locations you already know how important it is to have your multiple locations all function as one. Just as you can connect your multiple local area network computers over a single wide area network you can now connect the desk and mobile phones of all your offices and remote employees over a single phone system.

If you own more than one phone system or callers to your main phone number can't be routed to any employee or any office then 2013 should be the year that you change that. The technology to accomplish this has been real world tested for over a decade and it's finally affordable.

 

4. Become Indestructible - How many single points of failure do you have engineered into your multi-location business critical voice and date systems? What happens if your basement floods? What happens if your main telecom carrier goes down? What happens if your employees can not physically be present in one or more of your offices for a week?

If you've already implemented the first three points on this list then you're already half-prepared to become an indestructible, fully-redundant, self-healing business. To become a fully indestructible business simply go through your wide area network diagram and start "breaking connections" and blowing up servers.

If one communication path is blocked, where's the re-route? If one application or data set is destroyed, where is the backup and how quickly is it moved from secondary to primary? You'll soon see that having multiple network service connections from multiple vendors that can also provide "managed services" like remote data backup and remote hosted applications can easily make you completely indestructible without your having to buy more in-house equipment or software.

 

5. Eliminate all Desk Chairs - By completing the first four items on this list you'll have prepared all your non-human business assets for increased profitability. To properly prepare your employees to take advantage of your office communication technology upgrades, eliminate all desk chairs.

Think about it. Can your employees shake hands with new prospects or current customers while sitting at their desk? Why are they sitting at their desks anyway? Probably because there's a chair there.

If your best employees insist that there are profit increasing activities that they can only engage in while parked at their desk, make a list of all those activities so you can find, migrate or create an office software application that can allow that activity to be completed using a smartphone or tablet computer while your best employees are visiting with customers or prospects or traveling between costumers and prospects.

 

Who Can Help You With These Checklist Items? Call Us!

Office communications technology is blurring the lines between phones, computers and "the cloud". It's also getting cheaper and more complicated every day.

To help you decide whether the business communication technology advances of 2012 mandate that you spend or move money around differently in 2013 talk to a business communication technology expert. Click here to find one near you.

 

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How to Inexpensively Increase Internet Bandwidth by Bonding Low Cost Coax Cable and DSL Circuits

By Dan Baldwin, Editor
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Helping large multi-location business customers save money on their primary and/or backup data networks by cobbling together the lowest-cost Internet access provider in any particular region in the country is good business for Bandwave Systems.

For over a decade, Bandwave Systems has taken a solution that any IT systems manager might think "this should work" (bonding DSL, 4G/LTE and cable Internet together) and making it work the way it should by ironing out all the kinks. 

To learn how inexpensively increase Internet bandwidth bonding coax cable and or DSL circuits we recently interviewed Adil Zaidi, Operations Manager of Bandwave Systems.

Click here to download a PDF copy of the white paper created from this interview.

To listen to the interview, click here to download the MP3 recording.

You can also listen now with your computer speakers by clicking the player below and then follow along by reading the transcript below. 

 

Interview Audio

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Interview Transcript

Dan Baldwin:  Intro: Today I'm speaking with Adil Zaidi, Operations Manager of Bandwave Systems, a nationwide business broadband provider that integrates and aggregates all carriers and cable operators and technologies (DSL, T-1, Cable, Fiber Ethernet, Wireless) so that businesses with multiple locations are provided a complete nationwide network solution with just a single point of contact. Adil thanks for speaking with our audience today.

 

Question #1:  Adil, many telecom companies have long told business customers that low cost "best effort" bandwidth services like DSL or coax cable were "residential grade" products that where not comparable in quality to higher cost T-1 level solutions and above. What is Bandwidth System's experience with having your business customers successfully use DSL and cable for business solutions?

Well Dan, we’ve actually had a lot of success with our customers using dsl and cable for business solutions.  T1 technology is a high cost, low speed product.  We’re able to bring in a 10meg by 1meg next gen dsl or a 50meg by 10meg cable circuit for under 200 dollars per month.  We have metrics on both dsl and cable and we see two solid reliable products that have low latency and high bandwidth for the fraction of the cost of a T1 circuit.   

How to Use Cable Aggregation as an Alternative or a Replacement for Your MPLS Network

By Dan Baldwin, Editor
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Can cable aggregated wide area data network ("WAN") really replace an MPLS network for a multi-location business? Yes...

For years the business phone companies have been telling business owners and IT directors that using any sort of cable Internet solution in a business environment is a bad idea because cable does not have any quality of service ("QoS") and is an inherently "shared" resource meaning a business would never get the data throughput they were promised.

Well that argument is certainly still being waived around by the telcos but after experiencing the successful use of cable Internet in their homes, few business owners or IT directors have a problem with the idea of taking a serious look at replacing their expensive MPLS data network with a professionally aggregated mix of coax cable providers.

But since all the cable companies have different service areas across the country, most businesses are hesitant to try an aggregated cable dat network solution because of the problem of having to do all the aggregation in-house and then keeping track of individual cable company invoices.

Fortunately there are cable aggregation companies available to businesses that want to try an aggregated cable solution to replace their expensive MPLS wide area network or "WAN". Of all the cable aggregation companies to choose from, few have the "one stop shop" success that has been found by Bandwave Systems out of Philadelphia. 

To learn just how a coax cable solution works when backing up or aggregating an MPLS network we recently interviewed Tom Azelby, Managing Director of Bandwave.

Click here to download a PDF copy of the white paper created from this interview.

To listen to the interview, click here to download the MP3 recording.

You can also listen now with your computer speakers by clicking the player below and then follow along by reading the transcript below. 

 

Interview Audio

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Interview Transcript

Dan Baldwin:  Today I'm speaking with Tom Azelby, the founder and managing partner of Bandwave Systems, a nationwide business broadband provider that integrates and aggregates all carriers and cable operators and technologies, DSL, T-1, cable, fiber, Ethernet, wireless and so on, so that businesses with multiple locations are provided a complete nationwide network solution with just a single point of contact. Tom, thanks for speaking with our audience today.

Tom Azelby:  Thanks for having me, Dan.

DB:  Tom, IT directors for multi-location businesses are looking for alternatives to the classic MPLS network because they need to save money, get more bandwidth for the money they're spending or other reasons.  When typing "MPLS Alternative" into their favorite search engine, IT directors are finding Bandwave Systems. 

What are the Benefits of Connecting Your Business to "the Cloud"? How should you choose a business cloud consultant?

By Dan Baldwin, Editor
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In the 20+ years I've been helping business customers choose telecom and technology solutions I've never had a customer call and say, "I need some cloud" or "Connect me to the cloud" or simply, "Cloud me, baby!"

When I have suggested to clients that their next technology solution can be provided to them from "the cloud" though some have asked, "What the heck are you talking about!"

Following is the simplest answer that I've ever come up with for the question "what's the cloud?"

"The cloud is actually a windowless building someplace that's built for the comfort of computers instead of people. One of the comfortable computers in the cloud is the computer that makes the 'call waiting' feature on your phone work. The cloud can accommodate almost any business computer that can help your business do almost anything."

 

What Parts of Your Business Benefit from a "Cloud Connection"?

Maybe some, maybe none, maybe all.  The decision really boils down to your your thoughts as a business owner around "convenience, cost and security".

Convenience - Can you conveniently access your business email account from any computer or

Looking for Multi-Location Broadband Solutions? Need to Integrate Multiple Broadband Networks? We Do that!

By Tom Azelby, Guest Blogger 
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Bandwave Systems held its first “Breakfast Brainstorm” event that brought together independent broadband solution partners and telecom agents to discuss successful multiple location, broadband service initiatives that Bandwave has recently managed.

Held at the Riverton Country Club, Cinnaminson, NJ, guest speaker Tom McGinnis, Philadelphia 76ers basketball radio announcer, kicked off the event that focused on highlighting real-world client solutions that benefited from implementing Bandwave’s broadband technology solutions and hosted VOIP services.

 “I thought that the Bandwave event was very well attended by their agents who are interested in how new technologies can help their customers,” said Jonathan Forest, vice president of business development, Accel Networks. “Bandwave certainly has a strong agent program focusing on different customer segments.  Accel is pleased to have its highly differentiated