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Critical Links edgeBOX Enables SMBs To Leverage The Value of the Remote Worker
Critical Links (News - Alert) edgeBOX Enables SMBs To Leverage The Value of the Remote Worker
Critical Links Partnership with VanCost Systems points the way for SMBs looking to support remote workers, remote offices or telecommuting.
FAIRFIELD, NJ, USA, October 17th, 2008 � The number of people in Western Europe who work from home at least one day per month will grow steadily in the next five years, to just over 27 million, according to the recent Gartner (News - Alert) research report �Forecast: Teleworking, Western Europe, 2000-2011 (April 2007 Update)�, by Caroline Jones.
This emerging reality, aided by rising energy costs, was not lost on VanCost Systems, a leader in providing enterprise-level technology to small and medium businesses (SMBs). VanCost systems selected Critical Links, a global provider of unified voice, data and IT solutions for SMBs, to establish a partnership by which Critical Links� edgeBOX� product becomes available to VanCost Systems� customers who support remote workers, remote offices or telecommuting enhanced capabilities.
Also according to Gartner research (Forecast: Teleworking, Western Europe, 2000-2011 (April 2007 Update), by Caroline Jones), by 2011, 46.6 million corporate employees globally will spend at least one day a week teleworking, and 112 million will work from home at least one day a month. The highest proportion of these will be U.S. workers.
Terry VanWhy, owner of VanCost Systems, explains: �VanCost Systems will be working with Critical Links to deliver its cutting edge technology to our small to medium-sized business customers providing a remote office/remote worker solution. The edgeBOX� is a proven, stable, feature rich platform which will give VanCost Systems� customers an advantage over their competition by increasing employee moral and productivity.�
Critical Links� offering will enhance VanCost Systems enterprise solutions through with the edgeBOX, a business gateway with advanced features that enable remote access to all voice and data on-site applications. The edgeBOX provides a full-fledged IP telephony system, smoothly integrated with email, contact database, calendars, security, VPN, file sharing, and more. The voice and data services integration improves employee productivity, simplifies installation, maintenance and upgrades, and dramatically reduces equipment, communications, and maintenance costs for SMBs. It is available on a range of scalable platforms for companies from 10 to 300 users. edgeBOX can be fully managed remotely through a simple browser, which makes it specially suited for system integrators that want to get into the business of providing managed services to SMB customers.
�We are always happy to expand into a new area and look forward to helping VanCost Systems� costumers to build and sustain remote offices that are just as technologically advanced and secure as their company�s primary IT location� said Bob Muhaw, vice president, Sales and Support, Critical Links. �VanCost Systems� choice to resell our edgeBOX is another endorsement of Critical Links� technology and provides another way for potential customers to access all the business benefits it has to offer.�
VanCost Systems specializes in providing SMBs with affordable cutting edge technologies and solutions, by helping them to sort through the bombardment of the latest offerings and find �targeted for their business� technologies and solutions in productivity, collaboration, storage and security. The company�s customers are mainly based in the Atlanta metro area, United Stated of America (USA). The most recent USA Census data indicates that Atlanta has 500,000 workers who telecommute on an occasional basis, 297,000 who telecommute at least one day per week, and 350,000 who say they have jobs that are conducive to telecommuting and they would like to, but their employer doesn't offer it.[1][1]
About Critical Links
Critical Links is a global provider of converged voice, data and IT solutions for Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) that dramatically simplify and cost-reduce by consolidating over a single scalable and fault-tolerant platform.
Critical Links� flagship product, the edgeBOX�, is an award winning multi-function gateway appliance that includes VOIP/IP-PBX (News - Alert), VPNs, security, NAC, QoS and a Wi-Fi access point as well as a fax-server, web server, e-mail server, print server and data storage. It is available on a range of hardware platforms that support up to 300 users, with different form factors and a host of broadband interfaces such as BRI/PRI (T1/E1), FX0/FXS, Ethernet, etc. Critical Links typically serves SMBs through a global network of VARs, System Integrators, OEMs and Service Providers. For more information: www.critical-links.com/PR or info@critical-links.com.
About VanCost Systems
VanCost is a value-added reseller of computer hardware and services in the Atlanta metro area providing small and medium sized businesses enterprise-level technologies and solutions. VanCost Systems offers voice, data, web and security solutions to business owners and managers that are not trained technology professionals. Founded in 2007 by hardware systems architects, VanCost Systems is a member of the Microsoft (News - Alert) Partner Program and an Intel Channel Partner. For additional information on VanCost Systems please call 770-408-0357 or visit us on the web at www.vancostsystems.com
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For more information, contact:
Carlos Taveira
Get Global Communications
+351 213502551
Carlos.taveira@getglobal.pt
Or
Cláudia Gonçalves
Get Global Communications
+351 213502551
Claudia.goncalves@getglobal.pt
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