When you provide networking services in Africa and the Middle East, you must be ready for a wide range of unforgiving terrain and wide range of old and new equipment. Marisa Trisolino, CEO at CMC Networks speaks with Don Witt of the Channel Daily News, a TR publication, about CMC Networks’ success in servicing 51 of the 54 countries in Africa, 12 countries in the Middle East, and meeting the needs of their customers.

The Flex Edge was developed in response to the lack of flexibility with edge devices and networking production shortages. Marisa goes on to describe the Flex Edge with rapid deployment capabilities as it helps integration with existing technologies. It connects points of presence without needing to ship equipment or needing to be physically present in the country.

Marisa Trisolino

She also describes a variety of solutions they have at their disposal including:

SD-WAN

SDN

NFV

AI

Cloud

Cybersecurity

EDGE

Virtualization

Listen in as Marisa provides excellent information about their services and their company which strives to deliver quality and the best customers service possible.

CMC Networks® is a service provider offering customized solutions designed for tomorrow’s business needs in a cost-effective, scalable, and resilient manner. CMC Networks delivers next generation intelligent connectivity networking solutions across treacherous terrain. This all-in-one-networking approach provides a welcome convenience and guarantees customers that CMC’s network is future-ready.

Within digital-first transformation, CMC Networks addresses the needs of tomorrow’s network - which is intelligent and software-defined, and these future-ready SDN networks are powerfully established. Conventional networking and the growth and shift towards software-based network automation will revive the role of legacy networks. It is clear that a wave of new network application workloads will drive meaningful business outcomes in managing business requirements.

For more information, go to: https://www.cmcnetworks.net/

First available to Veterans and now available to everyone to make a profile map of their talents. This will also assist employers looking for the right talents for a position, people with disabilities, and second chance individuals.

Robyn J. Grable, founder and CEO of Talents ASCEND, and Veterans ASCEND describes to Don Witt of The Channel Daily News, a TR publication, how, when she ended her 9 years of service in the Navy, the Navy job descriptions did not translate to the civilian positions available. She basically had to start over with a new career.

Robyn Grable

Veterans and civilians alike are now suffering from an antiquated resume and hiring process.

Listen in to Robyn as she highlights the key characteristics of AI Powered Talent Sourcing. This is an amazing process using AI to enable and enhance the talent discovery as well as the talent requirements for specific positions.  This is a game changer for hiring that the telecommunications channel can use to fill many of the unfilled positions available.

Talents ASCEND’s mission is to be the beacon of intentional change for talent diversity, equity, and inclusion.

They look for media opportunities that will allow them to share their message, tell their story and help their communities.

Employers are missing out on the talent their military service members, veterans and spouses, people with disabilities and justice-involved bring to an organization.

They remove the barriers and bias.

For more information, go to: https://talentsascend.com/

Unplugged is an emerging technology company that will be delivering mobile phones protecting the user’s privacy. Each current smart mobile phone has on it a Mobile Advertising ID number. Ryan Paterson, President at Unplugged speaks with Don Witt of the Channel Daily News, a TR publication and goes on to say that when you download an app and you agree to their terms, you are giving them permission to collect all sorts of data about you from your location, things you browse, and much more.

Ryan Paterson

Once they have the data, they will sell it to their partners who will then use it to market other products and technology to you. They know everything about you. Where you live, where you work, what groups you are in, who your friends are -they know everything.

This is a must listen to podcast in order to find out all about Ad technology, the marketing of your data and how to prevent it while on your phone or laptop.

Unplugged will deliver the UP Phone with a  State-of-the-art Operating System developed for data privacy and security. Independent from Google and Apple.

Stay in control of your information. The UP APP Suite gives you Privacy and Security with apps that do not mine your data. A real alternative to Big Tech.

Proprietary Apps - Specially developed for your privacy, security, and your peace of mind!

UP Messenger - Communicate securely without being intercepted or watched.

UP VPN - Stealthy and invisible. An extra layer of security.

Safe download - their scoring system warns you about 3rd party app's data exploitation.

For more information, go to: https://www.unplugged.com/

On December 3, 1992, a developer working for Vodafone, sent the first ever text message from a computer to a Nokia cell phone. It read “Merry Christmas,” the first instance of a classic tradition to send well wishes during the holidays. Today, on the 30th anniversary of the first ever text message, Bandwidth’s Stephanie Lashley will be taking us through the history of texting, from the nostalgic years of the Nokia phones and ringtones, to the complex regulations in place today to support the massive B2C texting industry. Bandwidth has been in operation since 1999, helping businesses navigate the changing space of telecommunications for the last 23 years, and powering over a billion messages each month.

Visit www.bandwidth.com

Previous wireless communication solutions at the end of fiber’s reach helped but never fully delivered what was needed – comparable fiber performance at a fraction of the cost and deployment time. Dirk Gates, president of Tarana Wireless, describes the Next-Generation wireless technology to Don Witt of The Channel Daily News, a TR publication.

Previous fixed wireless solutions relied on WiFi or 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) which were geared toward mobility and not high-speed broadband access. This limited scalability and performance.

Dirk Gates

The Next Generation fixed wireless was designed to provide the fiber-like speeds over fixed wireless at distance. This provides resellers and business another option to the broadband, expensive fiber and the underperforming traditional fixed wireless.

Listen in as Dirk reviews the the Next Generation Fixed Wireless features that he and the rest of Tarana are so excited about – real game changer technology.

G1x2 mode

On September 27, Tarana announced its release of G1x2 mode, a software update that doubles the current 80MHz bandwidth of the G1 platform to 160MHz, organized as four independent 40MHz carriers — in either 5 or 6 GHz or both — to deliver up to 1.6 Gbps in aggregate for each G1 link. Additionally, Tarana also announced that G1 in 6 GHz will soon be available in the US, Canada, and other countries around the world.

They’ve built their platform company on a foundation of passion for deep innovation and tight focus on getting great things done.  their results speak for themselves:  they’ve grown from 0 to over 180 customers in their first year of G1 sales, with hundreds more in the pipeline, including companies across the full spectrum of the industry — fiber builders, WISPs, and incumbent broadband providers — connecting businesses and consumers alike.  They’ll collaborate with anyone working to make the digital divide a thing of the past. That’s their enduring mission — that’s Tarana!

For more information, go to: https://www.taranawireless.com/ or call: (408) 351-4085

With the massive movement of the workforce to homes during the pandemic, a significant percentage will likely continue the work from anywhere option. This has significantly affected the network security with 20% to 40% growth in cyber-crime. Harald Remmert, CTO of Cellular Solutions for Digi, speaks with Don Witt of The Channel Daily News, a TR publication about the continuing trend and the consequences of a security breach.

Harald Remmert

Harald goes on to say that if your cyber-security is inadequate, the following can happen:

Unauthorized access to confidential data

Denial of service attacks 

Loss of business continuity

Regulatory fines

Reputational damage

Listen in as Harald identifies the costs of a breach to a company and also identifies how future breaches can be avoided when specific preventative actions are taken.

About: From vast oil fields and evolving cities to intensive care units and factory floors, they connect the millions of sensors, valves, and components that allow these critical infrastructures to carry out their tasks. Even in the most demanding environments, Digi provides the essential layer of remote monitoring and management that IoT (Internet of Things) communications depend on.

Their customers are pushing the boundaries of their industries and exploring the possibilities for what’s next. They have innovative ideas, big problems to solve, and aggressive goals. Budgets are tight, deadlines are looming, and their success depends on the ability to make smarter decisions faster. That’s where Digi comes in.

Digi puts proven technology to work for their customers so they can connect complex networks and take new products from ideation to deployment. They bring visions and innovations to life with machine connectivity that’s relentlessly reliable, secure, scalable, and manageable. That’s Digi.

For more information, go to: https://www.digi.com/

AI and machine learning, like many similar technologies, have sometimes been viewed with dread as possibly another step forward that somehow diminishes customer experiences and devalues labor. But in this podcast Michelle Randall, CMO, Playvox, argues that AI may hold the key to improve the satisfaction levels of employees and thereby improve customer experiences. In this second of two podcasts, we learn about Playvox’s differentiated approach to deploying AI as a way of improving efficiencies, cutting costs, but improving the employee experiences when leveraged to optimize scheduling. Playvox also can analyze customer sentiment, invaluable in a company’s visibility to everything from detecting product issues and customers concerns to understanding how to better match team members with anticipated challenges. “AI is a journey, not a one and done answer,” adds Randall.

Visit www.playvox.com

NodeZero is a product that enables the channel to really take advantage of the security threats highlighted by the pandemic. This real-time continuously on autonomous pentesting and continuously learning AI technology proactively identifies and fixes internal and external attack vectors before attackers can exploit them.

Jennifer Lee

The best part of this technology is that it is only sold through the channel. Horizon3.ai wants to continue developing the channel and is looking for national partners as well.

Benefits include:

Deal protection and increased margins

New Partner Certification Trainings

Sales and Technical Resources

New Incentives

Marketing Opportunities

Listen in to Jennifer Lee as she provides a very good overview of the product and the channel.  This is one product you will want to add to your portfolio!

Autonomous pentesting enables organizations to see themselves through the eyes of the attacker. With this attacker’s perspective, enterprises can continuously identify their ineffective security controls and identify critical, exploitable weaknesses that they must immediately fix. However, autonomous pentesting is only part of the equation. Their larger vision is to leverage their expertise, data, and insights to build an autonomous defense designed to be humans by exception. They will deliver continuous attack, paired with continuous defense–executing an integrated learning loop that gets smarter with every interaction, delivered as an Autonomous Security Platform.

The Cyber Terrain Map, the knowledge graph at the heart of Horizon3.ai’s autonomous pentesting platform, is the critical data structure required to build autonomous security. With every pentest executed, these knowledge graphs get smarter – increasing its understanding of how an attacker can chain together harvested credentials, misconfigurations, dangerous product defaults, and exploitable vulnerabilities to compromise a system. Collective intelligence services analyze these insights and further optimize the attack algorithms. Thus, the more autonomous pentests they run, the richer their collective intelligence becomes, which leads to more efficient & effective attack algorithms.

For more information, go to: https://www.horizon3.ai/

Farmers know Agri and Cypress knows tech, so Cypress Agri-tech started integrating complete solutions for the rural areas knowing that their customers did not have the expertise or the time to integrate their own solution. Joseph Traut, VP of Operations with Cypress Agri-tech reviews their company strategy and sales process with Don Witt of The Channel Daily News, a TR Publication.

They are delivering the latest technology to their resellers completely integrated and tested with proven results. When they discuss their technology, Cypress Agri-tech explains how they will help their resellers sell, deploy, monitor, and analyze the resulting data to make adjustments, improve their watering, fertilizing, animal deterrents,  communications and more.

Joseph Traut

They have assembled the latest best of breed technology for many of the industries in rural areas. While located in California, their solutions apply to the same industries around the world. Listen in to hear how well they know their products and how they work closely with their resellers and end consumers.

Their mission is to provide effective solutions to the world's most pivotal industries by creating a streamlined way to access the best technologies and innovations available.

Agri-tech is a sub-sector of technology that has room for exponential growth as the result of mounting pressure to consolidate time spent on repetitive tasks and allocation of scarce resources.  At Cypress, their customers deserve easy access to these emerging technologies in a way that creates for a seamless relationship between grower and distributor.  Their team conducts extensive research & due diligence when prospecting potential partners producing solutions in the areas of labor management, pest/disease crop management, irrigation allocation analysis, energy efficient solutions and beyond.  Through their trusted Family of Partners who share in their vision, they can provide a suite of sustainable solutions to ensure their customers have everything needed to support their operational & environmental goals in the most streamlined manner.

For more information, go to: https://www.cypressagritech.com/ or Call: 661-241-3622

Industry's First Cloud Service Sales Model That Pays Lump Sums

“Our partners can now choose, at the point of sale, whether they want to get paid up front for that deal or whether they want to continue on a monthly recuring model, where they will see their payments each month,” says Al Kelley Vice President of Channel Sales for the Americas for NEC Corporation of America. NEC Corporation of America (NEC) has launched NEC UNIVERGE BLUE® CLOUD CASH, a program that offers NEC UNIVERGE BLUE® cloud communications channel partners the option to get paid upfront on the full-term of the agreement.

In this podcast, we learn how NEC’s Cloud Cash program offers the partners the option of getting paid upfront, even while selling a platform that includes both products and ongoing services, deployed together in as-a-service model. Kelly tells us that NEC partners now actually have three different ways to choose from to be paid, and that with Cloud Cash, partners do not lose out on promotions and spiffs that NEC might be offering at the time. “One of the benefits of doing business with NEC is choice,” says Kelly, adding, “It’s also the solutions we sell…” pointing out NEC’s scalable and secure approach to hybrid working and other current business needs.

Visit NEC Corporation of America, NEC UNIVERGE BLUE® and Channel