GigaKOM acquires EduTone’s California Systems Integration Business

San Diego, CA – November 15th, 2011 – GigaKOM today announced the acquisition agreement with Alameda based EduTone, whereby EduTone’s California based Systems Integration business will be acquired by GigaKOM.  As part of the agreement, GigaKOM will be supplying systems integration and managed services to all of EduTone's existing clients in California and will be authorized to resell EduTone's products and services to K12 schools in California.

“This partnership expands our sales and support resources in the state of California,” said Robert Iskander, CEO of EduTone. “GigaKOM's phenomenal track record and 100% focus on K-12 education was the deciding factor in their selection as our strategic partner that will directly serve and support all of our existing customers in California.  We will continue to innovate the capabilities of our cloud-based EduTone Xchange(TM) award-winning Platform but will rely on our partners to implement it for our clients."

“The synergies between EduTone and GigaKOM are compelling,” said Andrej Komatina, Founder & CEO of GigaKOM. “This will immediately expand our existing technical resources and clients in Northern California, and will enhance our K-12 education solution portfolio with EduTone's products. We are very excited about this strategic acquisition and partnership!"

GigaKOM will immediately serve all of EduTone's existing accounts in Northern California and will transition all of the EduTone Systems Integration resources to be part of its expanding sales and technical support team. Under this Agreement, the two companies will jointly pursue new opportunities in the California K-12 education market.

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About EduTone: EduTone provides schools with the sustainable technology infrastructure necessary to create the teaching and learning environments parents and students require. Installed in thousands of schools around the world, the EduTone Xchange™ is a 2011 CODiE “Best K-12 Education Solution” award-winning, Web 3.0 Platform-as-a-Service technology that enables on-demand; one-to-one services delivery in the Education Enterprise.

EduTone is a DBA of VIP Tone Inc., a privately held corporation headquartered in Alameda, California. For more information, go to: http://www.EduTone.com.

About GigaKOM:  GigaKOM is a full service technology solutions provider. Its vision is to improve the stability of each and every network it service. GigaKOM has partnered with the industry’s best network and system manufacturers to provide its customers with cost effective, superior products and services. GigaKOM has created solutions ranging from desktops to complete networks that ensure access to the vast array of services that are available to improve business efficiency.

GigaKOM Inc., a privately held corporation headquartered in San Diego, California.  For more information, go to: http://www.GigaKOM.com.

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EduTone                                               GigaKOM

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GigaKOM Achieves Advanced Unified Communications Specialization
from Cisco in USA

San Diego, CA – August 5^th, 2011 – GigaKOM announced today that it has achieved the Advanced Unified Communications Specialization from Cisco®. This specialization recognizes GigaKOM as having fulfilled the training requirements and program prerequisites to sell, deploy and support comprehensive Cisco Unified Communications solutions.    

“Since our founding, GigaKOM has been dedicated to delivering superior products to our customers and Cisco has been our premier solution.  Our achieving this milestone with Cisco demonstrates our commitment to delivering the best solutions to our customers.” – Andrej Komatina, CEO.

“As a Cisco Advanced Unified Communications Specialized Partner, GigaKOM’s investment in the training required to provide integrated, collaborative and adaptive unified communications solutions rank them among the industry’s most qualified,” said Richard McLeod, director of unified communications for worldwide channels at Cisco. 

The Cisco Advanced Unified Communications Specialization is designed to help Cisco resale channel partners—whether small to medium-sized businesses or enterprise-scale organizations—meet a wide range of customer needs. It allows partners to focus on unified communications market opportunities that require advanced product knowledge and the ability to deploy solutions over multiple sites and geographies. Cisco Advanced Unified Communications Specialized Partners are specialists in building solutions based on the industry-leading Cisco Unified Communications portfolio. These products include Cisco Unified CallManager, Cisco Unity Connection, Cisco Unity voice messaging and unified messaging, and Cisco Unity Express, Cisco Unified Contact Center Express, Cisco Unified Videoconferencing and Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Express.

The Cisco Resale Channel Program provides partners with the training required to build sales, technical and Cisco Lifecycle Services skills, and then validates their skills through a third-party audit.  Cisco resale partner certifications—Select, Premier, Silver and Gold—represent an increasing breadth of skills across key technologies and a partner’s ability to deliver integrated networking solutions.  Cisco resale partner specializations—SMB, Express, Advanced and Master—reflect an increasing depth of sales, technical and service expertise in particular technologies.  Achieving Cisco Advanced Unified Communications Specialization also provides GigaKOM access to comprehensive sales, technical, and lifecycle services training and support available from Cisco.

 About GigaKOM

             GigaKOM is a full service information technology  solutions provider. Our vision is to improve the stability of each and every network we service. We  have partnered with industry's  leading  network  and system manufacturers  to  provide  our customers with  superior service.

 Cisco, the Cisco logo, Cisco Systems and MeetingPlace are registered trademarks of Cisco Systems Inc. in the United States and certain other countries.

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GigaKOM in collaboration with Cisco hosted a conference in California's Imperial Valley to highlight Cisco's Digital Media System and its implementation in Education.

The conference was graciously hosted at the Imperial County Office of Education and was attended widely by Superintendents, Principals and Curriculum Directors from throughout the county.

The conference focused on the 21st Century Classroom, and Transforming Education through Video.  The Dr. Lance Ford joined using Cisco's Telepresence to demonstrate Distance Learning in today's environment.

To learn more on how Video technology can help your organization  develop Real Time Interaction, Video Training Library's and improve communication "Anywhere, Anytime and on Any Device", please contact your GigaKOM account representative.

This year GigaKOM is presenting to California Technical Professionals  the latest in Technology designed to support and enable California's schools.  "Solving the Education Puzzle Through Technology" is GigaKOM's theme for this year's event.  Focusing on technologies that extend from the traditional network into the Classroom, campus and beyond.

Highlighted this year will be technologies from:

Lenovo - The leader in the Public Sector and Fortune 500 end user computing technologies, GigaKOM will be demonstrating All-in-One units, small form factor and tablet computing technologies.

Cisco - Cisco has always been a leader in the "back room" technologies for building enterprise class networks and wireless systems.  Today, Cisco comes out from the infrastructure and takes a lead in the Classroom.  Cisco's Digital Media System leads the way enabling Video technologies to expand and enhance the learning and teaching environment.

Video Surveillance - Today more than ever security and asset protection are critical in our learning institutions.  GigaKOM brings this technology to Schools with Milestone Software, Axis and Mobotix cameras, and a host of deployment solutions.

ShoreTel - Telephony has moved beyond its days of a telephone on a desktop and VoIP to integrate networks, to a true Unified Communications platforms allowing a user to be connected to information and people in a mobile, integrated environment.  ShoreTel demonstrates the ease of deployment of a true Unified Communications platform easily enabling schools to improve communications, manage access and facilitate information flow.