Partnership with VanCost Systems will offer Critical Links’ edgeBOX™ to Atlanta metro area Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) looking for a remote worker, remote office or telecommuting solution.

FAIRFIELD, NJ, September 30, 2008 – Critical Links, a global provider of unified voice, data and IT solutions for SMBs, announced today that VanCost Systems, a leader in providing enterprise-level technology to small and medium sized businesses, has entered into a reseller agreement where Critical Links’ flagship product, the edgeBOX™ will be made available to VanCost Systems’ customers.

VanCost Systems specializes in providing SMBs in the Atlanta metro area with affordable cutting edge technologies and solutions. It helps the small business sort through the bombardment of the latest offerings, finding “targeted for their business” technologies and solutions in productivity, collaboration, storage, and security.

The most recent U.S. Census data indicates that Atlanta has 500,000 workers who telecommute on an occasional basis, 297,000 who telecommute at least one day per week, and 350,000 who say they have jobs that are conducive to telecommuting and they would like to, but their employer doesn't offer it.

“VanCost Systems will be working with Critical Links to deliver its cutting edge technology to our small to medium-sized business customers providing a remote office/remote worker solution,” said Terry VanWhy, owner of VanCost Systems. “The edgeBOX™ is a proven, stable, feature rich platform which will give VanCost Systems’ customers an advantage over their competition by increasing employee moral and productivity.”

The edgeBOX provides a full-fledged IP telephony system, smoothly integrated with email, contact database, calendars, security, VPN, file sharing, and more. The voice and data services integration improves employee productivity, simplifies installation, maintenance and upgrades, and dramatically reduces equipment, communications, and maintenance costs for SMBs. It is available on a range of scalable platforms for companies from 10 to 300 users. edgeBOX can be fully managed remotely through a simple browser, which makes it specially suited for system integrators that want to get into the business of providing managed services to SMB customers.

“VanCost Systems’ choice to resell our edgeBOX is another endorsement of Critical Links’ technology and provides another way for potential customers to access all the business benefits it has to offer,” said Bob Muhaw, vice president, Sales and Support, Critical Links. “We are always happy to expand into a new area and look forward to helping remote workers and telecommuters in Atlanta build and sustain remote offices that are just as technologically advanced and secure as their company’s primary IT location.”

About Critical Links
Critical Links is a global provider of converged voice, data and IT solutions for small and medium businesses (SMBs) that dramatically simplify and cost-reduce by consolidating over a single scalable and fault-tolerant platform.

Critical Links’ flagship product, the edgeBOX™, is an award-winning multi-function gateway appliance that includes VoIP/IP-PBX, VPNs, security, NAC, QoS and a WiFi access point as well as a fax server, web server, e-mail server, print server and data storage. It is available on a range of hardware platforms that support up to 300 users, with different form factors and a host of broadband interfaces such as BRI/PRI(T1/E1), FX0/FXS, Ethernet, etc. Critical Links typically serves SMBs through a global network of VARs, System Integrators, OEMs and Service Providers. For more information: www.critical-links.com/PR or info@critical-links.com.

About VanCost Systems
VanCost is a value-added reseller of computer hardware and services in the Atlanta metro area providing small and medium sized businesses enterprise-level technologies and solutions. VanCost Systems offers voice, data, web and security solutions to business owners and managers that are not trained technology professionals. Founded in 2007 by hardware systems architects, VanCost Systems is a member of the Microsoft Partner Program and an Intel Channel Partner. For additional information on VanCost Systems please call 770-408-0357 or visit us on the web at www.vancostsystems.com.

Editors Notes:
1. Source: Atlanta Business Chronicle, July 29, 2008
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