AireSpring is pleased to announce that Channel Vision Magazine has named AireSpring a 2021 Visionary Spotlight Award recipient in two categories: Best Channel Program and SD-WAN and SD-Branch Communications Technology.

Best Channel Program 2021

The annual 2021 Visionary Spotlight Award for Best Channel Program recognizes excellence in service to channel partners in communications technology categories including voice, data networking, hosting, cloud services and managed services. The winners are also selected based on their efforts in going above and beyond to support the growth and profit of their partners.

AireSpring has a long-established record of total dedication and white glove concierge service to its channel partners. Some of the elements of the AireSpring Advantage are:

• 100% Channel Focused - with a large team of solutions engineers and channel managers to support partners and their customers from the discovery call, to the proposal, and throughout the entire customer lifecycle.
• Financial Stability - the company has been in business for over 20 years and remains family-owned and debt-free.
• Industry-Leading Evergreen Commissions - have been paid on time every month, throughout the company's history. Additionally, AireSpring also offers Spiffs on renewals.
• QuoteSpring - its online, real-time quoting and proposal tool hosted on Airespring's back office portal, AgentStar.net, for channel partners where they can also check on items such as order status and commissions.
• An Escalation List up to the CEO - provided to all AireSpring partners and customers.

Best SD-WAN and SD-Branch Communications

Technology 2021

This year, AireSpring's Global Managed SD-WAN is the recipient of the 2021 Visionary Spotlight Award for SD-WAN and SD-Branch Communications technology. Winners of this award demonstrate the best of the communications industry's overall innovation efforts, highlighting forward-thinking ability, and feature set differentiation.

AireSpring's Global Managed SD-WAN, powered by VMware® SD-WAN by VeloCloud®, the Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for WAN Edge Infrastructure, operates over AireSpring's fully managed Layer 2 Global Private Network (GPN). The underlying AireSpring GPN bypasses the inherent unreliability of the public Internet over long distances, delivering the fastest and most reliable connectivity possible, and runs concurrently with existing legacy networks while future-proofing global business connectivity.

AireSpring's Global Managed SD-WAN frees enterprises from the complexities of procuring, deploying, monitoring, managing, and supporting SD-WAN and its many components, including multiple circuits, carrier contracts and IT support organizations. AireSpring transforms expensive, complex, and rigid legacy networks into simplified, cost-efficient, agile, and performance-driven business solutions, and simplifies branch, data center, multi-cloud, and SaaS connectivity.

AireSpring Global Managed SD-WAN benefits and differentiators include:

• Flexible network deployment with managed hybrid network options that combine AireSpring's Global Private Network (GPN) and last mile public Internet.
• Gateways (PoPs) geographically distributed around the world.
• Replacement or augmentation of expensive, capacity-constrained, and rigid legacy MPLS networks.
• Powerful orchestration and management platform for deep granularity and improved control.
• High-availability, dedicated connectivity to and from locations in China.
• A single vendor to source, design, implement, monitor, and support last mile Internet connections globally.
• Proactive 24/7/365 NOC network monitoring and resolution support, covering all connectivity, whether provided by AireSpring or other vendors.

AireSpring is deeply honored to be recognized yet again for its contributions both for its channel program and dedication to its partners, as well as for its comprehensive, innovative Global Managed SD-WAN solution.

AireSpring, a leading Managed Services Provider specializing in Unified Communications, Managed IT and Network Services today announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Ellen Cahill, Senior Vice President of Marketing at AireSpring, to the highly respected Women of the Channel list for 2021.

This annual list recognizes the unique strengths, vision, and achievements of female leaders in the IT channel. The 2021 Women of the Channel list acknowledges women from all over the IT channel, including vendors, distributors, and solution providers.

The women honored on this year's list pushed forward with comprehensive business plans, marketing initiatives, and other innovative ideas to support their partners and customers, helping them through the uncertainty brought on by the global COVID-19 pandemic. CRN celebrates these exceptional women for their leadership, dedication, and channel advocacy.

QuoteSpring 5.0 is now fully available to AireSpring channel partners.

QuoteSpring 5.0:

• Produces quotes in seconds!
• Is newly architected to give users complete flexibility to integrate any combination of connectivity and services into a single quote.
• Uses an optimized database for enhanced processing speed for quotes.
• Features a new, easy-to-navigate method for adding services to a quote.
• Offers greater flexibility when editing and reviewing a quote.

If you are not familiar with QuoteSpring and/or currently don't have access to our back office portal AgentStar.net where our quoting tool is hosted, please reach out to your AireSpring Channel Manager and they will get you registered and up-to-speed on this application.

New Fortinet Models Released

We are excited to announce that we have expanded our Fortinet FortiGate product portfolio to provide greater flexibility in meeting customers' unique needs. In addition to the existing FortiGate 40F, 60F, 100F, 400E, and 600E models , we now offer the following models, either as SD-WAN with Firewall, or as standalone Firewall-only (without SD-WAN):

Fortinet FortiGate:

• 80F
• 200F
• 1100E
• 1800F
• 2200E

These additional appliances mean more options and diversity for your customers, including the ability to provide up to 10G of throughput! The Rate Sheet showing the new models can be downloaded at the following site: https://agentstar.net/QuoteSpring/RateSheets.aspx.

Please reach out to your AireSpring Channel Manager to learn more about AireSpring's Managed Security service combined with this industry-leading, FortiGate firewall solution.

Join AireSpring for an overview of IT Security.

Get AireSpring Security Certified and earn a

$50 Amazon Gift Card in the process.

• Hear about the 1Trillion dollar threat landscape.
• Learn about the 7 Types of Threat Actors and the damage they can cause.
• Understand legacy security terms & functionalities, cybersecurity history, and the origin of firewalls.
• Delve into SIP and wireless security.
• Illustrate how to develop a security mindset and adapt that to new technologies.
• Learn about Gartner's Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) -- the new security paradigm sweeping all major vendors.

Most importantly, Mike will show you how to put a secure infrastructure into action by leveraging AireSpring's managed security solutions that give you visibility, encryption, cloud scale and private transport to deal with a borderless, ever-changing network environment where secure, affordable communication is King!

Anything that is not secure, is not truly usable.

Space is limited!

Deadline to Register varies by date of Boot Camp.

Reserve your spot and your Amazon gift card now!

Partners who have been previously certified as an AireSpring Security Sales Professional may attend if space permits but are not eligible for an additional $50 Amazon gift card.

All attendees must register in advance!

Questions? Contact Amanda Johnson at amanda.johnson@airespring.com

Tired of Playing Video Call Bingo?

Get Managed SD-WAN from AireSpring.

Are your customers relying on video conference calls to keep teams connected and pulling together to achieve goals? Are any of them facing unreliable connectivity issues that impact their productivity?

Delivering on your clients' growing needs for network reliability and greater bandwidth in the new hybrid work environment has been challenging. It is time to move communications beyond the unreliability of the public internet into the robust, reliable world of AireSpring Managed SD-WAN solutions, utilizing VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud™ or Fortinet® to serve customers' changing business needs.

Offer them AireSpring's Managed SD-WAN benefits and differentiators including:

• Flex Licensing- AireSpring does not require you to buy more bandwidth than what is needed for in-tunnel traffic.
• Multi-Cloud Connect - Offers enhanced, secure private connections from AireSpring Gateways to leading cloud providers such as Salesforce, Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, and Google.
• Granular Configuration Capabilities- Customers may make configuration changes in the SD-WAN orchestrator for deeper visibility, monitoring, and control.
• DDoS Mitigation Service with AireSpring Gateway Access - Included at no additional cost.
• Proactive 24/7/365 Network Monitoring - AireSpring provides proactive monitoring and resolution for all connectivity including 3rd party circuits.

AireSpring provides everything you need to deliver the best products and industry- leading customer service to your clients including:

• Project coordinators & managed services engineers assigned to each order.
• Free consultation with solutions engineering team.
• 24/7/365 NOC Network Monitoring.
• 20-second response time to support calls.
• Escalation list up to our CEO.

…and, Bingo! You are all lined up to win with our amazing July SPIFFs and bonuses, including: 

• 1X MRC on SD-WAN & Global SD-WAN Services
• 1.5X MRC on Connectivity Services & MPLS
• 6X MRC on Voice/Cloud Services
• $1600 Cash Bonus on Toll Free Services
• $800 Cash Bonus on LD Services

5% EXTRA Bonus Residual Commission on AireSpring Network & SIP LD underlying it all (note: wholesale LD accounts do not qualify).

Please contact your AireSpring Channel Manager for details.

AireSpring operates one of the largest SIP Networks in the USA processing over 6 billion calls per month over its carrier-grade systems. Join AireSpring Solutions Engineer, Chuck Long, to find out exactly what STIR/SHAKEN is, how it will impact your customers, and to hear about what AireSpring has done to implement it on its network.

Understanding these new rules and their impact on your large voice customers can be complicated. Your customers need to ensure that valid voice calls still go through and that bad actors are prevented from even reaching the network they rely on. Join us for this educational webinar to learn more about this important FCC mandate.

Complete our brief survey at the end for a chance to win a

$100 Amazon gift card!

I started out in the telecommunications industry with LCI International, a long-distance telephone and telecommunications company based in Virginia. The company experienced rapid growth in the late 1980s and early 1990s, largely due to the deregulation of the U.S. telecommunications industry. I worked there in sales and eventually moved into sales management where I excelled for seven years. [LCI was eventually purchased by what is now, Lumen].

I quickly recognized that the local telecom industry was going to boom with the breakup of local telephone monopolies and the expanding use of the internet. I immediately started to plan my move to this competitive and dynamic area of the telecom industry. Local telephone service competition was just beginning with the construction of fiber optic networks, creating alternative options for the first time in 100 years. These were exciting times so when I was presented with an opportunity to work at Phone Michigan, I jumped on it. I was one of Phone Michigan's original employees. For the next seven years, I was a Regional Sales Manager accomplishing goals well beyond my expectations. Then Phone Michigan was acquired by McLeod USA.

In 2000, the Dot-Com Bomb hit and McLeod USA, (now part of Windstream) went bankrupt. At that point in my career, I vowed to never work for one of the big telecom providers again. I made a commitment to work for my customers instead of the big telecom companies. I started Telecom Professionals as an independent consulting firm designed to help businesses better evaluate their needs and assist in choosing the best provider(s) for their application and location(s).

By listening to our clients, we locate pain points and analyze them in order to determine what technology upgrades will provide the greatest reward for the time and resources invested. In the long run, this has allowed us to keep clients for over 20 years, growing with their businesses.

We do not promote bleeding-edge technology as the rewards may not be worth the risk in some cases. We'd rather be second and get it right than first and be wrong. Of course, when customers have a need for the newest technology, we bring in experts to assist our clients in the evaluation of cutting-edge technology. That being said, we have had some great successes with SD-WAN and are also actively selling edge routing products.

What are some of your hobbies and interests outside of telecom?

I'm very interested in smart home and artificial intelligence technologies. I've even implemented them in my own home and enjoy testing new technology. I love the outdoors! Mountain biking and tennis have taken the place of running. In the summer and winter, you will find me waterskiing and snow skiing whenever I get a chance.

Tell us about your professional background and how long you've been in the telecom industry.

I have been in the telecom industry for 25 plus years. After college, I started working in the Telecommunications and never looked back. It wasn't long before I found myself where I am today working 100% in the Telecom and Technology industries. The majority of my experience has been with companies like Inter-Tel, Mitel, ShoreTel, and TPx. I have supported channel partners in Ohio and surrounding states for several years now. I've always been a high achiever going that extra mile for my channel partners. I am not sure if this industry keeps me young or gives me gray hair but either way, I love it.

Tell us about your role at AireSpring.

My role at AireSpring is supporting channel partners in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and Western Pennsylvania. My goal is to reach out to as many current and prospective partners making sure they understand the AireSpring Advantage, our broad product portfolio, and are trained on our real-time, online quoting tool QuoteSpring 5.0. Introducing them to the key benefits of AireSpring is a top priority.

What do you enjoy most about working at AireSpring?

I like the size of the AireSpring organization being a mid-size enterprise. Obviously, I won't know everyone right away but I think it's not unreasonable to recognize most employees' names and work with many of them on projects. Having worked for larger and smaller companies during my career, the size of AireSpring is definitely my preference. I like the people I have met throughout the company and how willing everyone is to jump on a video call at the drop of a hat.

What are some of your hobbies or interests outside of the office?

I have been married 25 years to my husband Dennis and we have a lovely, sweet daughter, named Reagan, who just finished her sophomore year at Miami University. We also have a 4-year-old Golden Retriever named Finley, who is a very important member of the family! My husband and I live on a golf course so certainly golf is a hobby of ours. We play every weekend, and my husband plays almost every day. In addition to golf, we are huge BUCKEYE fans! College football is a passion, and we never miss a game (live or on TV)! Watersports and boating in Tennessee are my happy places! Lastly, we love to entertain and be entertained! What I mean by that is we love live music of all genres and go to everything from the Columbus Symphony to KISS! Next up is Zac Brown Band, Jimmy Buffet and then Maroon 5, just to name a few.

AireSpring is an award-winning provider of Managed Connectivity and Cloud Communications solutions providing fully managed and connected end-to-end, next-generation solutions for multi-location enterprise customers, including:

• AirePBX UCaaS
• MPLS Mesh
• SD-WAN
• Global Managed SD-WAN
• SIP Trunking
• Managed Firewall
• Dedicated Internet Access
• Analog/PRI/POTS
• Wholesale Long Distance

AireSpring's services are delivered over its revolutionary nationwide MPLS Mesh Network, providing customers a fully integrated, end-to-end solution from a single vendor.

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