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Critical Links Launches New edgeBOX Office-in-a-Box Dedicated Network Appliances in Europe
Critical Links (News - Alert) Showcases the Most Comprehensive, Cost-Effective Solution for the Booming European Office in a Box Appliance Market
New zero touch edgeBOX enables VARs and Service Providers to successfully address the Emerging $2.6 Billion Market in Converged Voice Data IT Appliances for SMBs
Broadband World Forum Europe, Berlin, Germany, October 9th, 2007 Today, at the Broadband World Forum Europe (Stand 105), Critical Links, an international networking technology company, is launching its own line of edgeBOX Office in a Box dedicated network appliances, to be made available in Europe during the fourth quarter.
We are now able to offer the most comprehensive converged data, voice and IT product to SMEs on our new cost-effective, dedicated, high-performance appliances said Mr. João Carreira, Critical Links CEO. edgeBOX dedicated appliances enable resellers to shorten the go-to-market lifecycle, with a ready to market single integrated platform that allows resellers and service providers to quickly deploy edgeBOX at their SMB customer sites to provide managed voice and data networking services.
edgeBOX consolidates data, voice and IT services for small and medium sized businesses, replacing an average of 4 to 6 devices The new dedicated devices are expected to boost the edgeBOX value proposal for existing and prospective partners around the world, building on the success of the existing partnership model, where the edgeBOX software solution is provided to partners for installation on branded servers.
The new network appliances preloaded with the award winning edgeBOX Business Gateway (News - Alert) software, will become available in a desktop chassis for small offices and rack mountable chassis for medium sized businesses and larger enterprises, with competitive pricing in each segment. They provide all the ports a small business or branch office needs to connect theirLAN , broadband connection and analogue and digital phone lines (BRI and PRI) along with a built-in wireless access point.
As a multi-function business gateway that consolidates data, voice and IT services for small and medium sized businesses, edgeBOX effectively replaces an average of 4 to 6 devices, by providing a fully featured IP-PBX, router (wired and wireless LAN), security platform (VPN, Firewall, anti-spam/virus, etc.), and file/print/email/web servers along with full network access control. The result is a dramatically simplified deployment and management environment for all networking services, with significantly lowertotal cost of ownership .
Since its spin-off in early 2006, Critical Links has successfully become a global player with edgeBOX, a converged multi-function device or business gateway targeted at SMEs and branch offices. So called Multi-Service Business Gateways or Office-in-a-Box devices are, according to high tech market research firm In-Stat, a fast-growth market that is set to reach $2.6 billion in 2011 worldwide (Multi-Service Business Gateways:Cisco ( News - Alert) under Attack, April 2007).
Since its spin-off from high-growth European software engineering services company Critical Software in early 2006, Critical Links has successfully become a global player with edgeBOX. The company recently secured key partnerships with manufacturers and service providers in the US, Europe, Asia, and Africa.
edgeBOX is distributed through channel partners (VARs, Systems Integrators, Service providers and OEMs) worldwide in the UK, Spain, Brazil, Chile, China, India, Indonesia, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa and Thailand among others.
edgeBOX has been identified as a key player in the emerging Business Gateway market by leading analyst house InStat and won the Best Broadband Appliance award at the World Broadband Forum in Madrid. It also recently won the prestigious Techworld UK 2007 Convergence Product of the Year award, and the 2007TMC ( News - Alert) Labs Innovation award.
Further information can be found on the edgeBOX website www.edgebox.net
Broadband World Forum Europe, Berlin, Germany, October 9th, 2007 Today, at the Broadband World Forum Europe (Stand 105), Critical Links, an international networking technology company, is launching its own line of edgeBOX Office in a Box dedicated network appliances, to be made available in Europe during the fourth quarter.
We are now able to offer the most comprehensive converged data, voice and IT product to SMEs on our new cost-effective, dedicated, high-performance appliances said Mr. João Carreira, Critical Links CEO. edgeBOX dedicated appliances enable resellers to shorten the go-to-market lifecycle, with a ready to market single integrated platform that allows resellers and service providers to quickly deploy edgeBOX at their SMB customer sites to provide managed voice and data networking services.
edgeBOX consolidates data, voice and IT services for small and medium sized businesses, replacing an average of 4 to 6 devices The new dedicated devices are expected to boost the edgeBOX value proposal for existing and prospective partners around the world, building on the success of the existing partnership model, where the edgeBOX software solution is provided to partners for installation on branded servers.
The new network appliances preloaded with the award winning edgeBOX Business Gateway (News - Alert) software, will become available in a desktop chassis for small offices and rack mountable chassis for medium sized businesses and larger enterprises, with competitive pricing in each segment. They provide all the ports a small business or branch office needs to connect theirLAN , broadband connection and analogue and digital phone lines (BRI and PRI) along with a built-in wireless access point.
As a multi-function business gateway that consolidates data, voice and IT services for small and medium sized businesses, edgeBOX effectively replaces an average of 4 to 6 devices, by providing a fully featured IP-PBX, router (wired and wireless LAN), security platform (VPN, Firewall, anti-spam/virus, etc.), and file/print/email/web servers along with full network access control. The result is a dramatically simplified deployment and management environment for all networking services, with significantly lowertotal cost of ownership .
Since its spin-off in early 2006, Critical Links has successfully become a global player with edgeBOX, a converged multi-function device or business gateway targeted at SMEs and branch offices. So called Multi-Service Business Gateways or Office-in-a-Box devices are, according to high tech market research firm In-Stat, a fast-growth market that is set to reach $2.6 billion in 2011 worldwide (Multi-Service Business Gateways:Cisco ( News - Alert) under Attack, April 2007).
Since its spin-off from high-growth European software engineering services company Critical Software in early 2006, Critical Links has successfully become a global player with edgeBOX. The company recently secured key partnerships with manufacturers and service providers in the US, Europe, Asia, and Africa.
edgeBOX is distributed through channel partners (VARs, Systems Integrators, Service providers and OEMs) worldwide in the UK, Spain, Brazil, Chile, China, India, Indonesia, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa and Thailand among others.
edgeBOX has been identified as a key player in the emerging Business Gateway market by leading analyst house InStat and won the Best Broadband Appliance award at the World Broadband Forum in Madrid. It also recently won the prestigious Techworld UK 2007 Convergence Product of the Year award, and the 2007TMC ( News - Alert) Labs Innovation award.
Further information can be found on the edgeBOX website www.edgebox.net