Gamma has extended its connectivity portfolio with the launch of a new MPLS-based wide area networking service aimed at businesses with multiple sites and those looking to converge existing data and telephony networks. Called Converged Private Networks (CPN) the service is fully integrated with Gamma's IP voice products (Gamma SIP Trunks and Horizon cloud PBX), and gives resellers access to a purpose-built combined voice and data network.
According to Gamma, privately connecting multiple sites increases the addressable market and margin opportunity for channel partners selling voice and data solutions.
A single point of contact for both the data and IP voice (including porting) throughout the sales and implementation process, as well as in-life, will also help reduce complexity for channel partners, said the firm.
"With most businesses looking to consolidate their data and voice networks on the back of refreshing their existing WANs, this converged approach offers differentiation by making it easier to do business compared to managing different upstream suppliers for voice and data," said James Bushell, Head of Product Lines at Gamma.
"CPN includes a choice of access including carrier diversity to suit all locations and budgets, criticality and availability.
"Central to the quality proposition is the prioritisation of voice and key business applications using QoS mechanisms.
"It also provides resilient cloud-based Internet access secured by the latest next-generation firewalls built in high availability mode as standard.
"All customer premise routers are supported with a four hour onsite engineer support contract as standard, with both channel partners and end users given access to a monitoring tool to track the performance and availability."
Bushell highlighted the 400,000-plus MPLS solutions live in the UK and noted that customers are coming out of contract every month.
"There's a real opportunity for resellers to address the customer need for a better deal in terms of cost, performance and quality," he added.
Philip Donigan, Sales Director at STL Communications, commented. "Gamma's new MPLS IP VPN service is a timely entrant into what has been a static market.
"As most of the opportunities that we tender for involve the consolidation of legacy voice networks, working with a provider that understands the complexity of voice will give us an edge."