{"id":18201,"date":"2020-12-01T11:36:47","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T16:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/?p=18201"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:26:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:26:35","slug":"granite-guardian-provides-managed-network-services-security-sd-wan-wifi-and-help-desk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/networking\/granite-guardian-provides-managed-network-services-security-sd-wan-wifi-and-help-desk.html","title":{"rendered":"Granite Guardian Provides Managed Network Services: Security, SD-WAN, WiFi and Help Desk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With sales north of $1.5 billion, anything <a href=\"http:\/\/www.granitenet.com\/\">Granite Telecommunications, LLC<\/a> should be taken quite seriously when they announce a new, comprehensive service. The company, supplying services to multilocation businesses and government agencies, announced the launch of Granite Guardian, a comprehensive managed network solution that safeguards business connections from WAN to LAN using \u201cas-a-service\u201d delivery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With Granite\nGuardian, organizations are able to reduce costs or reallocate talent by\noffloading network management to Granite\u2019s Network Operations Center (NOC),\nwhich delivers 24\/7 monitoring and management of network and devices from\nend-to-end across critical segments of enterprise networks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Services\ninclude:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Access\nRemediation Services<\/strong> \u2013 proactive\nmonitoring and optional on-demand onsite repair<\/li><li><strong>Local Area Network (LAN) Services<\/strong> \u2013 managed\nswitches, Wi-Fi or VoIP with optional help desk and on-demand on-site repair<\/li><li><strong>Security Services<\/strong> \u2013 preemptive\nmonitoring and management of premises network firewalls with optional on-demand\nonsite repair, or migration to a cloud-based network firewall service<\/li><li><strong>Wide\nArea Network (WAN) Optimization Services<\/strong> \u2013 advanced\nmonitoring or managed SD-WAN with optional\non-demand onsite repair<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Each of\nthese services comes with support from Granite\u2019s Project Management and Account\nteams, 24\/7 U.S.-based customer service and guaranteed service level agreements\n(SLAs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Granite\nGuardian also includes access to the Granite Guardian Portal, the latest\naddition to the Granalytics portfolio of customer network management tools,\nwhich also includes Rock Reports, Granite Enterprise Mobility Marketplace and Granite\nEnterprise Mobility Management (GEMM) Dashboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media-exp1.licdn.com\/dms\/image\/C5603AQGVxWErzu3lCw\/profile-displayphoto-shrink_800_800\/0?e=1612396800&amp;v=beta&amp;t=3rkYy8d3KB-s6kYOe9BpIIRODOl30NmDsmVof29vDb4\" alt=\"Profile photo of Rand Currier\"\/><figcaption> Rand Currier, COO at  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.granitenet.com\/\">Granite Telecommunications, LLC<\/a> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGranite\nis breaking ground in the managed network services space with Granite Guardian,\u201d\nsaid Rand Currier, COO at Granite. \u201cNo other MSP delivers the breadth and depth\nthat we do with Granite Guardian. We monitor any and all network elements\nregardless of type or where it sits within the customer network \u2013 LAN, WAN or\nin between \u2013 enhancing network operations and dramatically increasing uptime\nfor our customers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Granite\nGuardian is available to all businesses and government agencies regardless of\nwhat supplier provides network services since it is delivered \u201cover the top\u201d of\nthe customer\u2019s network. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGranite Guardian is ideal for businesses that don\u2019t have an in-house IT team or are considering outsourcing network management to enable IT teams to focus on projects that drive their organizations forward, rather than simply keeping the lights on,\u201d said Currier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are many companies looking to provide similar services &#8211; from those that started in the satellite market to others who were LECs or SD-WAN providers. Masergy also stands out as a player with similar offerings. What Granite brings to the table is the agility of a &#8220;small&#8221; player (compared to mega-telcos) and the size of a company with over a billion in revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They seem to be positioned well in size and offerings to provide competitive services to the market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See the ONLY networking, UCaaS, SD-WAN and Tech companies that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.itexpo.com\/east\/exhibitor-list.aspx\">matter&nbsp;<\/a>at the&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itexpo.com\/\"><strong>ITEXPO<\/strong><\/a><strong>&nbsp;#TECHSUPERSHOW<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>This Event has been&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.itexpo.com\/east\/testimonials.aspx\">called the&nbsp;<strong>BEST SHOW in 5 YEARS<\/strong>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<strong>Best TECHNOLOGY EVENT of 2020<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>2020 participants included: Amazon, Cisco, Google, IBM, ClearlyIP, Avaya, Vonage, 8\u00d78, Comcast Business, BlueJeans, CoreDial, Dell, Edify, Epygi, FreeSWITCH, Fuze, Grandstream, Granite,&nbsp;Intrado, Frontier Business, Fujitsu, Jenne, West, Konftel, Intelisys, Martello, NetSapiens, OOMA, Oracle, OpenVox, Peerless Network, Phone Sentry, Phone.com, Poly, QuestBlue, RingByName, Sangoma, SingTel, SkySwitch, Spracht, Spectrum, Sprint, Tallac, Tech Data, Telarus, TCG, Teledynamics, Teli, Telinta, Telispire, Telstra, TransNexus, Unified Office, Vital PBX, VoIP Supply, Voxbone, VoIP.MS, Windstream, XCALY, XORCOM, Yealink, Yubox, and ZYCOO.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.itexpo.com\/east\/exhibitor-list.aspx\"><strong>Full List.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Join 8K others with $25B+ in IT buying power who plan 2021 budgets! Including 3,500+ resellers!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A unique experience with a collocated&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.futureofworkexpo.com\/\">Future of Work Expo<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdwanexpo.com\/\">SD-WAN Expo<\/a>,&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mspexpo.com\/\">MSP Expo<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>New Dates!<\/strong>\u00a0June 22-25, 2021, Miami, FL.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.itexpo.com\/east\/registration.aspx\">Register now<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"694\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ITEXPO-TECHSUPERSHOW-2020-1-collage2020-2-1000x694.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16500\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>R<em>ich Tehrani is CEO of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rt-advisors.com\/\">RT Advisors<\/a>&nbsp;and a Registered Representative with and offering securities through&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.4pointscapital.com\/\">Four Points Capital Partners LLC&nbsp;<\/a>(Four Points) (Member FINRA\/SIPC). 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