Collaboration and business communication specialist avsnet has bought network and unified communications specialists, Besttel. Avsnet chairman and industry veteran Mike Mason explained: “As a company we have an excellent heritage in collaborative video conferencing and network centric unified communications and, with Besttel joining us, we can further augment these skills with Besttel’s strengths in network, datacentre, virtualisation, security and wireless. We really get the sensitivity of multi-media applications traversing the network, so application performance management is absolutely key to our successful deployments.”
“Users suffering poor experiences from collaborative tools simply do not adopt them into their working day and hence the business never gets the inherent benefits of cost reduction and productivity. We help companies tie together their communications tools, giving users ubiquitous architectures allowing busy and highly mobile employees the choice to connect, communicate and collaborate with colleagues, suppliers and customers exactly how they wish, regardless of the device they have or the network connectivity available to them. Besttel’s strengths allow us to take the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) trend one step further in allowing users the choice of instant messaging, presence, audio, video and web conferencing tools on mobiles, tablets, PC’s, laptops and room based telepresence and video conferencing suites.”
Avsnet is accredited with both Polycom and Cisco unified communications and video conferencing solutions whilst Besttel holds specialisations with Cisco Data Centre, Wireless and Ironport security along with VMWare, NetApps and Veeam.
