MetTel Boosts Managed Service Portfolio with ADTRAN Bluesocket vWLAN
March 04 2015 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
Managed service provider enables new revenue
opportunities in growing managed Wi-Fi market
ADTRAN®, Inc., (NASDAQ:ADTN), today announced that MetTel, a
leading communications solutions provider for enterprise
businesses, is leveraging the ADTRAN Bluesocket virtual WLAN
(vWLAN®) solution to expand and strengthen its managed services
portfolio. With the vWLAN solution as the foundation of its managed
Wi-Fi service, MetTel is able to extend other service offerings
over the platform’s access points (APs) to gain more granular
control of service quality. ADTRAN is strengthening its 11-year
relationship with MetTel by empowering the company to build a
flexible, secure and scalable portfolio that supports unique
application layers while providing the opportunity to increase the
value of their current products.
Businesses are migrating to cloud-managed services in order to
offload IT management burdens while still enjoying the benefits of
a scalable and reliable network. In fact, IDC predicts that this
market will reach $2.5 billion by 2018. By offloading these
activities, businesses can free up internal resources to focus more
attention on core business objectives. MetTel has seen a noticeable
increase in demand for managed and hosted Wi-Fi service, especially
in the retail and healthcare verticals where more and more daily
business transactions and customer interactions are going mobile.
The ADTRAN Bluesocket vWLAN solution enables MetTel to package the
offering with other data, mobility and telecom applications to
develop unique, valuable service packages to fit any type of
business.
“As a leading provider of customized, integrated and managed
communications solutions for enterprise customers, MetTel is keenly
aware of the role Wi-Fi will play as a technology enabler to higher
level applications as well as a business enabler via real-time user
information in retail environments. Many of MetTel’s customers have
multiple locations and don’t have the staff and/or time for
continuous network maintenance and monitoring across disparate
systems, particularly as their internal business units are pressing
the IT departments for analytic applications that provide
actionable business and customer insights,” said Ed Fox, vice
president of network services at MetTel. “Every installation is
unique and ADTRAN’s solution provides the flexibility and
scalability needed to ensure we’re able to modify and optimize on
the fly to quickly meet each customer’s needs. We are particularly
impressed with the plug and play nature of the access points so
that customers are up and running in no time.”
“ADTRAN is empowering our service provider partners to
participate in the exploding cloud-managed Wi-Fi
services market. By helping them rapidly deploy multiple
customers across their entire footprint, our partners are
monetizing Wi-Fi and leveraging new revenue streams from their
vWLAN infrastructure," said Todd Lattanzi, director of product
management for ADTRAN’s Enterprise Networks Division. "With a
centralized, highly available platform providing the
foundation for managed Wi-Fi, service providers can also
deliver additional, unique over-the-top Wi-Fi services like user
and network analytics that enable businesses to more richly
understand their customers."
About MetTel
MetTel is a leading provider of customized, integrated and
managed communications solutions for enterprise customers. By
converging all communications over a proprietary network, MetTel
enables enterprise companies to easily deploy and manage
technology-driven voice, data, wireless and cloud solutions
nationwide. With one of the most comprehensive service
offerings in the industry, the highest quality customer care and
project management and the ability to completely manage, maintain
and secure your communications needs, our portfolio of
customer-centric solutions boosts enterprise productivity, reduces
costs and simplifies operations. Combining customized and managed
communication solutions with a powerful platform of cloud-based
software, the company’s MetTel Portal® enables customers to manage
their inventory, usage, spend and repairs from one simple, user
friendly interface. MetTel is a PCI DSS V3.0 Level 1 compliant
solution provider. MetTel was founded in 1996 and is headquartered
in New York City. For more information visit www.mettel.net or
contact us at 877.963.8663. MetTel. Smart Communications
Solutions.™
About ADTRAN
ADTRAN, Inc. is a leading global provider of networking and
communications equipment. ADTRAN’s products enable voice, data,
video and Internet communications across a variety of network
infrastructures. ADTRAN solutions are currently in use by service
providers, private enterprises, government organizations, and
millions of individual users worldwide. For more information,
please visit www.adtran.com.
Connect2 Communications for ADTRANAshley Baster,
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