The Cloud

There’s a lot of talk about with “The Cloud”, but the real conversation is how it can benefit your organization. The cloud can virtualize your storage, servers, databases, applications, and networks. You can adopt all or just the portions that make sense for you. What you gain is flexibility, scalability, and more control of your budget which often leads to cost savings. Updates and upgrades can be pushed faster, with almost no effort, allowing your IT staff to concentrate on other tasks. You also gain more control, and potential security, by heightened oversight of permissions/access. Intelligence with analytics will let you know more about your operations, your clientele, and even your workforce. Cloud unlocks possibilities and your competitiveness., we can develop a plan that addresses your needs.

SD-WAN

Help your day-to-day operations, strategic planning, and future viability with Mobility, Wireless, Internet of Things (IoT), alternate access, and SD-WAN - automating tasks, gaining control of the collection/use of data, ensuring uptime/business continuity, and the ability to oversee your IT stack. There is so many ways you can benefit, including gaining reliability, stability, flexibility, and even cost savings. Reach out to me today to explore the best solutions, or combination of solutions, for your organization.

Compliance

Compliance isn’t just something you have to do - it can help position you to securely excel in your industry, make you more appealing as a supplier/vendor, and help customers have confidence in you. With access to our 200+ Provider library with leading brands such as Comcast Business/Masergy, DYOPATH, Telesystem, and Windstream why not adopt security standards that are strong, vetted, and well known. Let’s talk, compliance is a great way to focus your Cybersecurity Strategy!

Managed Services

Managed Services can help you with your daily operations and gain efficiencies. It’s an approach that you can implement to ensure you’re staying ahead and keeping up with the latest tools and technologies. From predictable costs to adding flexibility/capabilities that are almost impossible to staff inhouse - you can benefit, and value, to your organization. Contact me today to get the conversation going!

Better Approach to Cyber Security

Knowing the most common Cybersecurity threats is great, knowing how to address or prevent them is even better. Solutions, policy, training - there is no one cure all, but when you have the inclusive strategy in place, you can rest a whole lot easier! Let’s open a dialog, to investigate creating a structure that will allow you to understand the threats to your organization, the many existing vulnerabilities you may have, and how to minimize/avoid a potential Cyberattack. Let me be your expert, advocate, and sounding - but first, let’s talk!

Stop Ransomware

Did you know data breaches cost companies $4 million each on average? Ransomware attacks disrupt operations, not to mention destroy customer trust and corporate reputations. Don’t let this happen to you - reach out to me today .

The right IT Solution

Finding the right IT Solution might be finding the right Managed Services Provider. Staying up-to-date, regulatory compliance, onboarding technical expertise, and Cybersecurity are all big tasks that are commonly moving to a Managed Services approach. You gain greater insight and expertise at a predictable monthly cost. Let’s talk about the possibilities. You have so many options and with access to a 200+ Provider library featuring leading brands such as Airespring, Fusion Connect, Thrive, and TPx, together we can develop a plan that meets your requirements.

Making it Work

There’s a lot that goes into your Network and Voice. How you connect to provide redundancies, failover, and data prioritization. The infrastructure, hardware, and cabling/wiring. Software and applications that add productivity and capability such as Slack, Salesforce, and Microsoft Teams. The all-important Network protocols, management, and oversight that better equip your IT team or smart solutions/outsourcing services. With access to a 200+ Provider library featuring leading brands such as Astound, Lumen, Sangoma, and Spectrum, together we can unlock your Network possibilities and your competitiveness. You have options let our team help develop a plan that addresses your needs.

Better Decision Making

Informed decision making, is better decision making | There are two sides to information collection, getting it and working with it. Mobility, Wireless, and the Internet of Things (IoT), managed with AI/ML, can help simplify both! The technology available is now in the mature phase, meaning the problems you’re looking to solve probably have a solution ready to go, or we can easily design a custom approach to meet your needs. Let’s chat, I can help you identify what you’re looking for, and work with you to see it through to completion.

Cybersecurity risks and threats

Cybersecurity risks and threats continue to grow every day. This applies to networks, data, and devices. I can offer you the best Cybersecurity solutions to keep your organization safe against risks, including phishing, identify theft, and online predators. It’s not as daunting as it seems, contact me today to get the conversation going!

Vendor Agnostic Appraoch

Vendor agnostic is important for your technology stack, as it exists today and is moving forward. As your trusted expert, I will look at what you want to accomplish, the barriers you have in place, the investment you have in legacy technology, and any industry requirements that you need to address. I’m excited to help you, let’s talk.

Internet of Things

Tap into your IoT (Internet of Things) possibilities | What can you do more efficiently? What are you missing out on? IoT approaches can give your organization the information it needs to be more efficient, operate with heightened transparency, and potentially reduce costs. Healthcare, Retail, Civil/Infrastructure Management, Finance, Education, Pharmaceutical, and Manufacturing are all industries who are seeing their investments in this technology pay off. I can help you explore your opportunities, and execute the approaches that meet your needs.

6 Reasons Why You Should Use POINTBROKER.COM a Telecom Broker

1. Pricing. 

Telecom brokers will find you the best pricing. They can utilize tools to tell you what carriers have fiber in your area. They can tell you what you should be paying—likely you are over paying for your services. They can create comparisons among different carriers to bring you the most cost-effective solution.

2.  Custom Solutions. When it comes to telecom, you do not want to try to fit a square peg in a round hole, you want a custom key. It may seem easier to stick with an existing solution, but in the long run, it is easier to have a solution that you fully understand, meets all your needs, and you feel comfortable managing. Do you want to be cloud based or have an on-premise solution? What applications need to be integrated? What compliance do you have? There are many options and a telecom broker can present and filter through them all to help determine what works best for you and your company.

3. Experience and References. Because telecom brokers work with a variety of products and carriers, not just one, they know the pros and pitfalls of each carrier and product. They can make a trustworthy recommendation and provide references. Furthermore, they can tell you what works for similar companies in your industry and what does not.

4. Free Up Internal Resources- Recently POINTBROKER.COM helped an 80 location multi-site customer peel off their MPLS network. Many of these locations were in very rural areas. By working with POINTBROKER.COM, a telecom broker, POINTBROKER.COM did all the research for the customer to efficiently and quickly provide the customer with best options and pricing at each site. This helps IT to not feel stuck while working on a project. They can continue to work and fulfill company needs. Another aspect of a large project is porting. If one number is wrong, an entire port will be canceled. Telecom agents are experts at this process and making sure ports are done right the first time. Most successful telecom agents have team members dedicated to porting—when vetting out a broker ask them how they handle the porting process.

5. They do not disappear after a sale is made. Telecom brokers want to keep their customers, it is how they get paid. So, when problems occur telecom brokers do not go away. Think of them as an additional member of your team that can make your life easier. Often, they know shortcuts to help navigate through problems or they know what precautions to take to avoid them in the first place.

6. Telecom brokers are free to the customer. Telecom brokers are paid by the carrier. The brokers are paid in leu of a direct salesperson. It is a win-win-win situation because the carrier is being brought business, the broker is compensated by the carrier, and the customer receives free guidance and a solid solution.

Contact POINTBROKER.COM today, EP@POINTBROKER.COM.com, to discuss how you help your company utilizing a telecom broker.

Why use POINTBROKER.COM a Telecom Broker

Here is what our clients had to say…

• Value: It let's the network guys do network things.

• PointBroker plz, I don’t want to have to have sit in bull*** meetings with 4 carriers for several hours.

• Are carrier rep changed every 3 months to 2 years. Pointbroker has been there for over 10 years for us.

• Pointbroker gets me multiple quotes, they have some interesting tools, who has fiber at certain addresses. This helps save time. We avoid expensive build cost.

• I used to be anti-broker, preferring direct relationships, but have changed in the past couple years. All of our new business goes to Pointbroker.com. We get better responsiveness when things go sideways with a carrier, whether it's a billing or service issue. Billing problems are my biggest complaint with the telcos, Pointbroker.com handles these now saving me the time of beating up/following up with the carrier.

• Unless you are a Fortune 500, you are probably not going to have a direct rep that really gives a s***. Pointbroker.com has access to internal telco resources that you would never have as a direct SMB/Enterprise customer.

• Pointbroker.com is the carrier’s biggest customer so got great treatment. You’d rather be a big fish in a small pond than a small fish in a big pond.

• We are rather small. A dozen or so remote sites scattered through about half as many states. Pointbroker.com responds quickly and provides valuable help.

• We were exploring hardware SDWAN options with Pointbroker.com. Which of course meant adding internet circuits at all these sites, and of course they offered to help and got us a great deal.

• We tried to get quotes outside of them (we often require competing quotes) and they actually came out cheaper a lot of the time. When they came out higher it was by a marginal amount and we managed to convince the penny-pinchers that the cost difference was more than worth the savings in admin overhead for not having to deal with the telcos.

• We go through a Pointbroker for all of our remote SD-WAN circuits.

• I don't talk to the ISP, finance is happy with the relationship... the Pointbroker knows our standards, works directly with our facilities and project managers.

• Using Pointbroker saves time & it saves us from having those awfully boring conversations with ISPs.

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