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C1 Unveils Advanced Technology Solutions to Benefit Business Outcomes

Taylor Graham — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 15:00:59 +0000

C1 has introduced a range of innovative solutions aimed at helping organizations modernize communications safely, improve network performance and resiliency, and bolster security programs. These essential new features are implemented and managed through C1’s managed and professional services, delivering faster time to value at a much lower cost.

“Businesses depend on their technology infrastructure more than ever, but IT complexity is high. Coupled with the rapid pace of innovation, this has made the situation unmanageable for most organizations. To achieve business outcomes, advanced communications, networking, and security systems are essential to allow users to work securely from anywhere without causing disruptions or risks,” stated Omar Bhatti, Chief Customer Officer of C1. “C1’s proven managed and professional services have the unique ability to work closely with clients to define their desired business outcomes, then customize each implementation to rapidly and safely enable them to meet those goals.”

“C1 helped us see things that we weren’t seeing ourselves. They helped us understand how the product can scale for us and grow with us. That’s why we rely on a partner like C1 to help guide us, and that’s exactly what they have done,” said Sapidah Shefa, vice president of operations at Road Runner Sports, a C1 customer.

“In a recent ZK Research study, 93% of organizations stated their IT infrastructure is more important to business operations than two years ago. This is why modernizing technology has become a critical initiative for companies of all sizes. However, in that same time frame 80% report the environment is more complex. Success with IT is dependent on ensuring technology is not deployed in silos – everything must work together as what happens in the network affects security, which impacts communications and so on. This suite of services C1 has offered looks at infrastructure holistically but gives customers a choice of starting points. C1’s services overlay enables brands to deploy leading edge technologies without the typical risks and pitfalls associated with infrastructure deployments,” said Zeus Kerravala, chief analyst, ZK Research.

The C1 solutions include:

Communications:

RingCentral RingEX Powered By C1CX: An AI-powered unified communications solution engineered to maintain seamless and efficient connectivity among teams.
RingCentral RingCX Powered By C1CX: An AI-powered contact center solution that facilitates a modern, omnichannel customer experience.

Infrastructure:

C1 Managed Internal Broadband Services (MIBS): Designed to monitor, administer, manage, and operate broadband services, this offering enhances resiliency at reduced costs for K-12 organizations.
Total Security Network: Targeted at the public sector, finance, healthcare, hospitality, transportation, and logistics industries, this solution combines Extreme and Verkada technologies with C1’s expertise to deliver top-tier physical security powered by an industry-leading network.

Security:

Risk Mitigation Solution Suite (RMSS): This suite includes WAVES Security, Asset Management-as-a-Service (AMaaS), and Vulnerability Management-as-a-Service (VMaaS), offering a straightforward approach to asset inventory, vulnerability identification, and prioritized risk mitigation.
C1 Managed Next-Generation Firewalls: Combining C1 Managed Services with Palo Alto Networks’ machine learning-powered NGFWs, this service provides industry-leading protection, compliance assurance, and business resiliency.

Mark Langanki, Chief Technology Officer of C1, added, “With this set of solutions, C1 continues to deliver industry-leading communications, networking, and security services that empower our customers to modernize their IT infrastructure for transformative growth. These IT fundamentals are critical to supporting essential business services and will determine their ability to adapt to evolving technologies and competitive demands – on time and within budget.”

To learn more about C1 and how to achieve your desired business outcomes, visit the website here.

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Chainlink Announces Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP)

Leigh Porter — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 19:59:42 +0000

Chainlink introduced the Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP), a new global standard for decentralized inter-blockchain messaging, data, and token movements. CCIP will be available through Chainlink, the world’s most widely adopted decentralized oracle network. CCIP provides developers with an open source standard for easily building secure cross-chain applications that can interoperate across multiple blockchain networks through a single interface. Similar to TCP/IP’s standardization of communication across the early internet, CCIP is able to standardize the interoperability and token movements across hundreds of public and private blockchains.

Additionally, Chainlink announced a Programmable Token Bridge, a decentralized service that leverages CCIP and is a decentralized, compute-enabled token transfer service that enables developers to transfer tokens across blockchain networks in a highly secure way, as well as initiate programmable actions on the destination chain. CCIP will establish a universal connection between hundreds of blockchain networks both private and public, unlocking isolated smart contracts and empowering cross-chain applications across blockchain ecosystems.

“We’re excited to be creating a global standard for how blockchains transmit data, tokens, and commands between one another. The Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) unlocks the full potential of the blockchain industry, allowing the combination of previously disconnected smart contracts. The ability to build cross-chain applications is a large step forward in what smart contract developers can provide to their users,” said Sergey Nazarov, Co-Founder of Chainlink. “Before CCIP, each blockchain had its own ecosystem of isolated applications and services that have not been able to communicate with one another. With CCIP, smart contracts will be able to utilize services across multiple chains, send tokens and messages seamlessly with previously unavailable security guarantees, and easily connect smart contracts across multiple chains. Our goal with CCIP is to create a global open-source standard for how interblockchain messaging, token transfers, and advanced interoperation between blockchains will happen across our nearly 100 blockchain partners, which secure 90%+ of all value currently on a blockchain.”

The first committed user of CCIP will be Celsius, the industry-leading cryptocurrency yield-earning platform with nearly a million users and over $16 billion worth of total value locked. A pioneer in crypto earning and lending, Celsius will use CCIP to enable exciting new features that would both bring additional transparency and allow Celsius to better integrate into the DeFi world.

“We see the usage of CCIP through Chainlink services like messaging and programmable bridging as the perfect way to future-proof and scale Celsius for a more comprehensive multi chain DeFi integration.” said Celsius Co-founder Alex Mashinsky. “From our perspective, CCIP will allow our community to capture more value across multiple blockchains, while at the same time giving new and exciting DeFi protocols access to billions of dollars worth of liquidity. We’ve long relied on Chainlink Price Feeds for their unmatched security guarantees, and we look forward to becoming even more cross-chain enabled through CCIP.”

The introduction of the CCIP is designed to rapidly expand what developers can build by enabling the use of smart contracts from all over the blockchain industry. CCIP enables completely novel cross-chain applications that can utilize multiple smart contracts at the same time, as well as take advantage of the unique properties of specific chains or the assets on those chains. This opens up a whole new crop of cross-chain applications and protocols that can leverage the scalable computation of one blockchain, the liquidity of another, and the security of a third for governance, creating a single application that harnesses the expansive capabilities of a cross-chain meta-layer. The Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) represents a new global standard to power all blockchain interoperability, token transfer, and advanced cross-chain applications. Just like TCP/IP standardized communication across the early internet, CCIP provides a global open source standard for how all blockchains interoperate with one another, enabling a new world of cross-chain smart contracts.

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Veristor and Network Data Systems Partner to Deliver Services for Managed Secure Networking

Taylor Graham — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 01:04:40 +0000

Veristor Systems, Inc., a trusted provider of transformative business technology solutions, and Network Data Systems (NDS) announced that the companies are partnering to deliver business critical network managed services for organizations that require a secure and fully-managed solution across their networking lifecycle – including options for managed unified communications, SD-WAN, and Wireless.

Deloitte research shows that at much at 80% of IT’s time is spent on resolving problems, rather than moving new strategic projects forward. Managed services can help IT overcome this challenge, by delivering the expert resources IT needs to securely manage critical operations, such as networking. Veristor, with network managed services support from NDS, is now providing comprehensive networking services including proactive monitoring, fault isolation, and incident management along with performance and configuration management that is fully supported with a US-based team of skilled network engineers.

“Network management is an increasingly complex and time-consuming component of today’s IT enterprise and it can often drain time-to-value for other IT projects,” said Matt Bynum, Director of Technology Services, Veristor. “Yet the network is also the critical heart of business and without it, productivity, application availability, and business continuity can fail. With our new network managed service, customers can now outsource this tedious, yet critical, piece of their IT infrastructure, knowing it will be cared for with expert precision, so they can get back to the strategic work they need to focus on.”

“Our partnership with Veristor will give our mutual customers the one-stop resource they need to enhance and secure their networking operations,” said Patrick Sweeney, Vice President of Client Solutions, Network Data Systems. “Together, we are delivering world-class, compliant managed networking services so customers can have the confidence they need that their strategic networking infrastructure is managed, secured and optimized to enhance business performance.”

The new Veristor Network Managed Services offering is now offered as part of the Veristor suite of managed services, which also includes Backup-as-a-Service, Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service, Office 365-as-a-Service and Storage-as-a-Service. Each service offering is designed to solve business challenges through the intelligent application of next-generation technology and hands-on 24×7 engineering expertise. For more information visit: https://veristor.com/services/managed-services.

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Bandwidth to Acquire International Cloud Communications Leader Voxbone

D.S. Jones — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 13:53:25 +0000

Bandwidth has signed a new agreement to acquire Voxbone, an international enterprise cloud communications leader, for an enterprise value of €446 million EUR, representing a multiple of approximately six times anticipated Voxbone 2020 revenue.

Voxbone has been majority-owned by Vitruvian Partners, a leading growth- and technology-focused investment firm headquartered in London, UK, since 2015. Voxbone is a leading European-based communications platform and IP voice network. Since 2005, their mission has been to simplify global communications for businesses by providing compliant, quality coverage that can be integrated with any contact center, conferencing platform or voice application.

“We are bringing together leading domestic and international enterprise cloud communications platforms to supercharge global cloud communications for our customers. Bandwidth’s deep US presence and Voxbone’s world-wide platform across 60+ countries will serve enterprises in countries representing 93% of global GDP. Today’s announcement accelerates our international strategy by several years. Our current and future customers will benefit from using a unified software platform, network and team to serve people around the world,” said David Morken, Co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Bandwidth. “Voxbone’s platform is trusted by approximately 900 enterprises, including brands like Uber, Zoom, 8×8 and Skype. We’re thrilled to welcome this pioneering team to Bandwidth and congratulate them on their tremendous growth.”

Combination to Supercharge Cloud Communications:

Through this combination, Bandwidth will play an even greater role in leading the transformation of enterprise cloud communications, enabling companies around the world to develop, launch, and hyper-scale applications and customer experiences using rich voice and text.

Enterprises everywhere in 2020 are prioritizing voice, video, and text communications in their digital transformations. At the center of this challenge is a critical need for a single worldwide cloud communications platform and network. With the addition of Voxbone’s intuitive user experience, software platform and voice network spanning 60+ countries, Bandwidth will provide global enterprises with a unified answer to the question of how to develop and deliver communications applications and experiences around the world. This creates a tremendous opportunity for Bandwidth, as IDC projects worldwide spending on communications as a service to be $17.7 billion by 20241.

Upon close, Bandwidth will power 11 out of 12 of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant Leaders for UCaaS, CCaaS, and Meeting Solutions enterprises.

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