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ADTRAN Launches ProCloud Wi-Fi ServicesHUNTSVILLE, Ala. --(Business Wire)-- ADTRAN (News - Alert)®, Inc., (NASDAQ:ADTN), a leading provider of cloud connectivity, enterprise communications and mobility solutions, today announced the first phase of its ProCloud? managed service program with a hosted and fully-managed Wi-Fi service offering. The ADTRAN ProCloud Wi-Fi services are a "no-worry" managed, business-class Wi-Fi service, built on ADTRAN's award-winning, multi-tenant Bluesocket (News - Alert) virtual WLAN (vWLAN®) solution. The need for wireless connectivity is a critical and growing requirement for business operations. As these needs grow, organizations are challenged to not only handle the growing number of employee-owned mobile devices, but also to connect customers and guests to the Wi-Fi networks. ADTRAN's ProCloud services were established to handle the challenges that businesses face as the wireless demand grows:
ADTRAN ProCloud addresses these challenges by providing ADTRAN partners the ability to offer an affordable, fully-managed, business-class Wi-Fi service that rovides 24x7 monitoring and resolution of technical issues, including hardware upgrades and moves/adds/changes. ADTRAN ProCloud is staffed by ADTRAN-certified engineers that are responsible for all aspects of the service, and provides a guarantee of 99.99% infrastructure uptime. In addition, ProCloud coupled with the Bluesocket vWLAN affords the freedom to migrate to in-house management anytime. ADTRAN partners are offered two models for management, ProCloud and ProCloud Private Label:
"The flexibility of ADTRAN's program empowers our partners to expand business opportunities and remain competitive by providing an international footprint," said Todd Lattanzi (News - Alert), director of product management for ADTRAN's Enterprise Networks Division. "With the addition of ProCloud, partners can deliver best-in-class managed network services, and utilize our powerful ProStart and ProCare programs to ensure the network is installed and maintained for their customers' specific organizational requirements. As a result, businesses spend less time and attention trouble shooting their IT challenges and remain focused on achieving core business goals." The ProCloud Wi-Fi service is a game-changer for the industry. It is a unique service offering that includes both a complete turnkey model as well as the flexibility of a private label option. The duality of this offering enables partners to offer advanced, reliable cloud-managed Wi-Fi service while significantly reducing deployment time and ensuring a recurring revenue stream. By combining ProCloud with ADTRAN's other private label offerings for ProStart? and ProCare?, ADTRAN's channel has an instant, all-encompassing service arm. About ADTRAN ADTRAN, Inc. is a leading global provider of networking and communications equipment. ADTRAN's products enable voice, data, video and Internet communications across a variety of network infrastructures. ADTRAN solutions are currently in use by service providers, private enterprises, government organizations, and millions of individual users worldwide. For more information, please visit www.adtran.com.
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