INCOMPAS Fall 2017 - Day 1 Show Daily

« 1 2 » THE INCOMPAS SHOW I OCTOBER 15 - 17, 2017 www.bekapublishing.com DAY 1 INDATEL Reaches 500,000 Fiber-Fed Buildings I NDATEL (Booth 500) announced that its Carrier Wholesale Division will be able to provide pricing for 275,000 buildings in 30 states starting November 1, with a projection of reaching more than 500,000 buildings in early 2018. Its ultimate target is to garner and vali- date more than one million buildings. The sites are primarily located in rural loca- tions where carriers often find it difficult to deliver services. Nearly 700 independent local providers make up INDATEL’s 30 statewide members/owners and affiliates. INDATEL also welcomes its newest facility-based member affiliate, PBP Group LLC of Georgia. “PBP is a wonderful addition to the INDATEL nationwide network and helps INDATEL serve more rural customers in the rural southeast,” the company said, adding that INDATEL is also in discussions with several additional poten- tial members in an effort to form a complete nationwide network to include every state in the domestic United States. INDATEL’s network is comprised of autho- rized service providers, enabling clients to operate through a single source for quotes, orders, service delivery, network operations and billing. The model provides carriers and systems integrators with a national point of contact to serve rural and urban-based govern- ment and enterprise customers. In addition, INDATEL offers aggregated pricing for content delivery network (CDN) peering, IP transit services, and most recently, secure and direct connectivity to service exchanges to meet the major cloud-based partners. INDATEL offers wholesale clients the ability to connect Ethernet services through its network of rural independent providers by simply meeting at one or more of INDATEL’s six national points of presence (PoPs), in Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Minneapolis, Seattle and Ashburn, Va. It also has plans for future expan- sion as necessary on the east and west coasts. “INDATEL is uniquely positioned as a national carrier to reach rural America through one nationwide network coupled with the power to scale is a rarely matched solution in the industry,” said Mel Wagner, Jr., INDATEL CEO. “Through our expert team, tools and network, we’re excited about our unprecedented success and limitless opportunity to deliver Ethernet, content delivery and internet to our service provider customers.” p G ranite Telecommunications LLC (Expo Hall Kiosk 4) has announced that the General Services Administration has awarded it a spot on its Enterprise Infrastruc- ture Solutions (EIS) contract. The EIS contract vehicle offers consoli- dated, next-generation telecommunications and IP solutions, replacing GSA´s Networx, Regional Local Telecommunications and WITS 3 contracts. As an EIS prime contract holder, Granite is authorized to compete for business from individual agencies, including for voice services, virtual private network services, managed network and Ethernet services, among others. As a result of the award, Granite can propose solutions as a prime contractor on aspects of federal agency information technology, telecommunications and infrastructure for up to $50 billion of services performed for up to 15 years. Granite provides voice, data and other related communications products and services to multilocation businesses and governmental agencies throughout the United States and Canada. Granite furnishes services to more than two-thirds of the Fortune 100 companies in the United States, with 1.5 million voice and data lines under management. Granite´s headquarters is located in Quincy, Mass., and the company has offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, New York, Orlando, Providence, R.I., and West Palm Beach, Fla. p Granite Chosen as EIS Contract Provider