Supplier Affiliates

Access Marketing Company (AMC)

Access Marketing Company (AMC) was founded in 2006. We’re a vertically integrated marketing consultancy and agency focused on building enterprise business-to-business brands, creating revenue-based marketing strategy, compelling messages and outreach tactics, all tied to business objectives. With growth and change over the past 18 years, AMC has continued to have a client focus that is mostly telecom and technology. It is a mark of pride that we continue to grow mainly through word-of-mouth referrals, as that means we’re doing great work for our clients.

Adtran

Adtran is a global leader in open, AI-driven fiber networking solutions, empowering communities to deliver Gigabit broadband to homes and businesses worldwide. Our portfolio spans the entire network – from the metro core to the customer premises – offering innovative solutions to build a brighter, more connected future. Leveraging unprecedented infrastructure funding, we’re helping thousands of communities unlock their potential. Following our merger with ADVA, we now deliver industry-leading open optical transport solutions, including for middle-mile networks, ensuring operators achieve seamless interoperability, unmatched scalability and long-term growth.

Arista Networks

Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client to cloud networking for Service Provider routing, large data center/AI, and campus. Arista’s award-winning platforms deliver availability, agility, automation, analytics and security through an advanced network operating stack.

BHC

BHC is a leading civil engineering and surveying firm based in the Kansas City area. Founded 32 years ago, we deliver high-quality design and project management services with a ‘No Problem’ approach that prioritizes client service and innovative solutions. Our team partners with clients across the country to plan, design, and deliver infrastructure that connects and strengthens communities.

Ciena

Ciena products and solutions underpin many of the world’s largest, most reliable and sophisticated networks. Get the best network, and get the most out of it.

CircuitVision

Comprehensive solutions to meet the mission-critical challenges of Telecommunications Networks.

CORE

Turn Tech debt into operational wealth! At CORE, our team of seasoned IT leaders help telecom operators select and implement system and process improvements that turn technical liabilities into operational wealth in order to successfully scale and grow. With decades of experience in the IT and telecom spaces, we have successfully navigated countless technical challenges and have a strong reputation for client success across the industry. We provide the expertise and resources you need to improve your day-to-day operations and make serving your customers easier so you can scale and grow long-term.

Core Telecom Systems

Corero

Corero Network Security is a leading provider of DDoS protection solutions, specializing in automatic detection and protection solutions with network visibility, analytics, and reporting tools. Corero’s technology protects against external and internal DDoS threats in complex edge and subscriber environments, ensuring internet service availability. With operational centers in Marlborough, Massachusetts, USA, and Edinburgh, UK, Corero is headquartered in London and listed on the London Stock Exchange's AIM market (ticker: CNS).

Duos Edge AI

Duos Edge AI specializes in adaptive, versatile, and streamlined edge data center solutions tailored to meet evolving needs in any environment. Our cost-efficient approach provides scalable IT resources that seamlessly integrate with existing infrastructure or expand capabilities at the network edge, ensuring DATA uptime onsite services. We optimize performance and minimize latency by localizing resources close to devices and utilizing distributed architectures across edge, cloud, and enterprise layers.

Ekinops

Ekinops is a leading supplier of next generation optical transport equipment for telecommunications service providers. The Ekinops 360 addresses Metro, Regional, and Long-Haul applications with a single, highly-integrated platform.

Elite-ICT Services

Elite-ICT Services is a Champaign, Illinois based full-scope and self-supported communications infrastructure company supporting telecom, utility, and commercial projects nationwide. Elite-ICT Services specializes in the design, construction, and maintenance of critical communications systems – delivering reliable, high-quality solutions with safety and experience at the core of everything we do.

ePlus

ePlus is a full service, turnkey company that has been providing customized communication network solutions to Service Providers for decades. Our innovative and experienced team of more than 1,000 professionals are dedicated to developing tomorrow’s solutions today for our clients in the telecommunications, power, CATV, municipal, educational, government, and tribal communities. ePlus supports Cloud and Data Center, Security, Collaboration, Networking and AI to Digital Transformation, Managed and Professional Services and even Financing. ePlus brings a vast perspective that helps organizations design, orchestrate, and seamlessly implement versatile technology solutions. Our unparalleled expertise has been refined over more than three decades, allowing customers to maximize the return on their technology investments.

Equal Optics

Operating from our base in Austin, Texas, Equal Optics offers an extensive portfolio, including optical transceivers, cabling, memory, storage, and server solutions. These products are specifically designed to cater to a wide array of industries, such as Enterprise, SMB, Data Centers, Healthcare, Government, Education, and Security sectors. Our objective is to empower these organizations to meet their critical goals through products characterized by unparalleled quality and reliability, supported by the most dependable warranties in the market. This ensures our clients not only receive the product that best suits their needs, on schedule and at a competitive price, but also secures their success in the ever-evolving digital landscape.

Exponential Power

At Exponential Power, we deliver more than just products and services – we deliver peace of mind. With confidence that your telecommunications systems are protected and ready to perform during a power outage, you can focus on what matters most. From DC Power to Tower, we’ve got you covered. We proudly provide the highest quality DC Power Services, Switch Services, and Tower Services in the country, all designed to keep you “online all the time.” Whether it’s a telephone office delivering voice, data, and video, a manufacturer requiring uninterrupted power to maintain operations, or a large communications tower needing equipment upgrades or testing, Exponential Power is dedicated to ensuring reliability, so you’re always connected when it counts.

Forvis

FORVIS, LLP is a professional services firm providing assurance, tax, and advisory services. Created by the merger of equals of BKD, LLP and Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP (DHG), FORVIS is driven by the commitment to use our forward vision to deliver an Unmatched Client Experience™. Ranked among the top 10 public accounting firms in the country, FORVIS has 5,700 dedicated professionals who serve clients in all 50 states as well as across the globe. FORVIS is built upon the strong legacies of BKD and DHG, which are reflected in a name that comprises partner initials and represents our unique focus on preparing our clients for what is next.

Fresh Produce

Fresh Produce is a marketing, advertising, branding, and ideas company. We help individuals and organizations solve problems through a disciplined creative process. As a mostly typical ad agency, Fresh Produce works best with folks who delight in creativity, enjoy being part of the creative process, and desire to differentiate themselves.

gaiia

gaiia is a leading provider of OSS/BSS solutions for the telecommunications industry. With its comprehensive platform, gaiia offers ISPs an all-in-one solution for billing, CRM, operations, automation, and more. Founded with a vision to simplify and optimize ISP operations, gaiia empowers providers worldwide to deliver exceptional services and drive growth in the digital age.

Hoplite

Hoplite is a technology company that develops network and cloud-focused security software to support managed security and IT services customers throughout the United States. For the past 6-years, Hoplite has also developed and manufactured network appliances (IDS/IPS sensors, routers, firewalls, cables, and electronics) and more recently, Ethernet switches, wireless access points and Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) here in the United States. To control costs and to maintain high levels of compliance, Hoplite owns and operates a facilities-based network and several data center locations which allow us to provide colocation, managed private cloud, and redundant access services. Hoplite leverages these disparate lines of business to great effect for our partners and customers.

IOLITE Solutions

IOLITE Solutions takes its heritage from the powerful and important iolite gemstone. This gemstone was used by Viking sailors for its polarizing properties – allowing the Viking pioneers to find the sun on cloudy or foggy days. Without this important tool, the Vikings would never have been able to explore the world.

IOLITE Solutions strives to help our customers by creating products that are simple, clear, and cut through fog to navigate their business with clarity and precision. Come experience the clarity and elegance of IOLITE Solutions.

LB Networks

LB Networks provides engineering services and network software platforms for service providers. LBN solutions include: OcularIP, the leading SLA performance portal, and WOOD network deployment portal. LBN also provides comprehensive EF&I and IP engineering services.

LightRiver

LightRiver is the premier provider of multi-vendor, Factory Built Networks® and netFLEX® vendor neutral, Optical Domain Orchestration and Control Software. LightRiver is expert in Packet Optical, DWDM/ROADM, MPLS, IPoDWDM and Carrier Ethernet systems and designs, deploys, automates, and supports next generation, software-controlled transport networks for mission-critical clients that require the highest capacity, reliability, resiliency, and manageability that today’s optical communications technology can deliver.

London Internet Exchange Ltd (LINX)

The London Internet Exchange Ltd (LINX) is a premier global Internet Exchange Point (IXP), connecting over 950 member networks from more than 80 countries. As a not-for-profit, member-owned organization, LINX focuses on strengthening its robust network infrastructure, enhancing performance, reducing latency, and increasing control for its members. Offering a range of services including peering, cloud connectivity, and private VLANs, LINX is dedicated to uniting networks and igniting the internet.

LINX NoVA, its U.S.-based exchange in Northern Virginia, offers low-latency routes, improved traffic control, and direct access to a globally diverse ASN community—helping regional and rural providers extend their reach without compromising on performance or cost.

Renowned for its advocacy in public policy and first-class engineering support, LINX plays a pivotal role in the global digital landscape.

Managed Telecom Services

MTS offers comprehensive managed services solutions designed to streamline operations for service providers. We specialize in enhancing service delivery for wireless, wireline, and cable sectors, ensuring that your business operates more efficiently and stays competitive. With over 25 years of experience working alongside top service providers, we offer flexible engineering, quality control, operations, and project/program management solutions that maintain high-quality standards.

MasTec Communications

Mastec is an industry expert in performing both wireline and wireless communication services.

MasTec Communications Group (MCG) is a division of MasTec that provides comprehensive services and turnkey solutions for Telecom operators. MCG is uniquely positioned to offer true and unmatched end-to-end services to our customers for planning, design, SAQ, construction, material management, integration & RAN Optimization services for 5G, LTE, private LTE, and small cells. The telecommunications industry is one of the most dynamic industries in the global marketplace today. Consumer demand, technological advances, and new networking applications continue to fuel a fast-paced business environment. A wholly owned subsidiary of MasTec, Inc. (stock symbol: MTZ), MCG is a telecommunications infrastructure services company that is well-positioned to outmatch the demands of this type of business climate.

Netsync

Netsync is an NMSDC-certified minority business enterprise (MBE), a federally certified woman-owned small business (WOSB), and a HUB-certified value added reseller (VAR) specializing in the implementation of comprehensive IT lifecycle solutions for a wide array of organizations. Our team of engineers bring tangible business value to every project through our progressive Design, Build, Deliver, and Manage methodology, allowing them to tailor solutions for each client based on time, budget and desired outcome. Netsync is a Cisco Gold, Master Collaboration, Master Networking, Master Service Provider and Master Security Partner, an HP and Intel Platinum Partner, and holds certifications and specializations from many of the industry’s leading technology manufacturers.

Nex-Tech

With 70 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, Nex-Tech offers carrier-grade network monitoring (NOC), custom advertising solutions, is a CALEA trusted third party (TTP) provider, and owns Cordell Networks, a leader in central office environmental, network alarm management, and soft switch voice quality measurement (VQM).

Nokia

At Nokia, we create technology that helps the world act together.

OCM Engineering

OCM Engineering is a premier company in the fields of utility engineering and pole maintenance. We understand the importance of accurate and efficient data collection. With a stellar reputation and a strong word-of-mouth presence in the industry, we are proud to be the go-to choice for utility pole modeling in the Midwest. Our team specializes in electric/communication distribution design, joint use coordination, permitting services, relocation services, and construction management. We provide turnkey and à la carte engineering and design solutions to telecommunication customers.

OSI Global

OSI Global is an industry leader in providing enterprise hardware equipment, optical solutions, and third-party maintenance services to a wide range of clients and industries worldwide. Their guiding focus is on doing the right thing for their customers in every transaction and offering unparalleled customer service.

Priority Wire & Cable

Priority Wire & Cable is a modern manufacture with the majority of our sales being Priority branded products. We also fill out our product offering with specialty wire and cable products, sold generically or under other industry leading brand names. This allows us to provide a product offering and service level unmatched by other industry factories or brokers. We sell only to wholesale distribution and provide same day shipping from our twenty-one (21) North American distribution centers, twenty (20) in the U.S. and one in Toronto. With 3+ million square feet of warehouse space we have industry leading fill rates and next day delivery to most customers. If you are a current customer, thank you for your business as you have helped us become the fastest growing wire and cable supplier in the industry.

Ribbon Communications

Ribbon Communications (Nasdaq: RBBN), which recently merged with ECI Telecom Group, delivers global communications software and network solutions to service providers, enterprises, and critical infrastructure sectors. We engage deeply with our customers, helping them modernize their networks for improved competitive positioning and business outcomes in today’s smart, always-on and data-hungry world. Our innovative, end-to-end solutions portfolio delivers unparalleled scale, performance, and agility, and includes packet and optical networking, core to edge IP solutions, UCaaS/ CPaaS cloud offers, and leading-edge software security and analytics tools.

Smartoptics

Smartoptics provides innovative optical networking solutions for a new era of open networking. We focus on solving network challenges and increasing the competitiveness of our customers. Our customer base includes cable and telecom operators, cloud providers, Internet exchanges, governments and thousands of enterprises.

At Smartoptics, we leverage modern software design principles and expand network horizons by taking an open approach in everything we do. This empowers our customers to break free from unwanted vendor lock-in, remain flexible and minimize costs.

Our solutions based on open networking standards and protocols are used in metro and regional network applications as well as in metro access networks. The products we deliver are based on in-house developed hardware and software and enhanced by associated services.

Smartoptics is a Scandinavian company founded in 2006. We partner with leading technology and network solution providers and hold numerous certifications and approvals from major switching and storage solution providers such as Brocade, Cisco and Dell. We have a global reach through our salesforce and more than 100 business partners including distributors, OEMs and VARs.

As a challenger, we take pride in our open approach, smart design principles and ambitious customer service.

Stevens Fiber Group

Stevens Fiber Group is a leader in turnkey OSP construction, specializing in FTTH and FTTx solutions that power the future of connectivity. From directional drilling, trenching, and plowing to aerial construction, fiber placement, maintenance, and more, we deliver end-to-end services that keep communities connected. We take pride in tailoring our approach to the unique needs of telecom providers, municipalities, and utility partners. Backed by cutting-edge expertise and a proven commitment to excellence, Stevens Fiber Group ensures that every project drives progress bringing fast, dependable internet to the Midwest and beyond.

SunCoast Communications

SunCoast Communications (SCCTEL) is the premier supplier of high-quality new and refurbished telecommunications and networking equipment. All equipment is either NEW/unused surplus or tested. We carry equipment from the industry’s leading manufacturers to meet your network needs. SCCTEL can help support your network lifecycle by means of critical sparing, testing and repair services, install/deinstallation services, asset recovery, and e-waste/scrap services. While we focus on selling these services, we also purchase excess or unwanted material, turning those idle assets into cash!

The Proposal Management Tool

The Proposal Management Tool, powered by ProCore Resource Group is an industry-altering tool specifically designed for telco product proposal management. This tool is designed on top of the Salesforce.com platform and is brought to you by ProCore Resource Group – a company with 15 years of experience exclusively building Salesforce.com solutions.

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UniTek Global Services

UniTek Global Services is a nationwide, turnkey fiber construction contractor delivering end-to-end OSP and ISP solutions across the US and Canada. Through our five divisions and more than 60 offices and yard locations, UniTek provides aerial and underground mainline construction, drops, on-premises installs, and project execution for long-haul, middle-mile, datacenter, metro, and fiber-to-the-home networks.

We support a broad range of clients, including leading telecommunications providers, electric cooperatives, tribal nations, federal, state, and local government agencies, infrastructure owners, hyperscalers, and data center operators with a strong focus on safety, quality, and performance in the field.

UNITEL

Risk Management for the Communication Industry offering consultation and loss prevention services as well as Insurance products. UNITEL helps companies eliminate preventable incidences and prepare for the unexpected and unavoidable losses that can hurt an unprepared business.

Vantage Point Solutions

Vantage Point is a premier engineering and consulting firm serving the broadband, energy, enterprise, and banking industries. These companies, cooperatives, and communities leverage Vantage Point’s extensive technical and regulatory expertise to protect their operation, connect to end users, empower their staff to excel, and rise beyond the countless challenges defining the modern business environment.

Our unparalleled experience in network engineering, regulatory and business consulting, OSP implementation, cybersecurity, risk mitigation, managed services, and marketing enable service providers of all types to elevate their organization with professional guidance and technical caliber. Vantage Point’s 600+ staff are personally committed to the long-term success of our hundreds of clients coast-to-coast.