Managed service provider enables new revenue opportunities in growing
managed Wi-Fi market
HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 4, 2015--
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.
Source: ADTRAN, Inc.
Connect2 Communications for ADTRAN
Ashley Baster, 919-435-9112
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