FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Granite Named Cradlepoint
Partner of the Year for Third Straight Year
Managed Service Provider of the Year Award Honors Outstanding Performance
and Year-over-Year Growth
QUINCY,
Massachusetts – March 16, 2023 –
Granite
Telecommunications today
announced Cradlepoint, the
global leader in cloud-delivered LTE and 5G wireless network edge solutions,
has awarded Granite with the 2022 Managed Service Provider of the Year Award
for a third consecutive year. The award was presented at Cradlepoint’s
2023 Partner Summit held in Austin, TX on March 7, 2023.
Cradlepoint recognizes partners in three categories: outstanding
performance, commitment to customers, and significant achievements over the
last year. Each recognized partner has demonstrated exceptional year-over-year
growth and a continued commitment to positioning and selling Cradlepoint’s Wireless Wide Area Network (WAN) business
solutions.
“Our
third consecutive MSP Partner of the Year Award affirms that Granite’s approach
to delivering fully managed wireless gateway deployments across the entire Cradlepoint product portfolio is a market leading solution
for wireless WAN connectivity,” said Dan McDuffie, Granite’s General Manager,
Wireless & Mobility Solutions. “As the wireless landscape continues to
evolve, Granite has proven it will be at the forefront of that innovation with
our true end-to-end service offerings and carrier neutral approach to wireless
networking.”
Cradlepoint is a pioneer in
Wireless WAN, offering advanced 4G and 5G routers and adapters — controlled
through its cloud-based controller, NetCloud ManagerTM. Cradlepoint
recently announced NetCloud
Exchange
TM, an architectural extension of its NetCloud
solution, to provide its partners with a suite of advanced services to support
“cellular first” transformation.
Granite’s Wireless WAN solution leverages Cradlepoint’s NetCloud platform
and cellular routers, which deliver a pervasive, secure, and software-defined
Wireless WAN edge to connect people, places and things
anywhere.
“This is a new
era for Cradlepoint partners. Over the last year, Cradlepoint has delivered both its NetCloud
Exchange and NetCloud Private Network solutions to
enable our channel partners a wireless-first network practice to their
customers,” said Eric
Purcell, Senior Vice President of Global Partner Sales at Cradlepoint. “We are appreciative of all of our resellers
taking on new frontiers and creating unique practices that are accelerating LTE
and 5G Wireless WAN adoption. Granite has worked hard to receive this
recognition.”
To learn more about Granite, please visit www.granitenet.com. For more information on Cradlepoint’s Partner
Program, visit https://cradlepoint.com/partners/for-partners/.
About
Granite
Granite
delivers advanced communications and technology solutions to businesses and
government agencies throughout the United States and Canada. The $1.8 billion
company serves more than two-thirds of Fortune 100 companies and has 1.75
million voice and data lines under management, supporting more than 650,000
locations. Founded in 2002, Granite has grown to be one of the largest
competitive telecommunications carriers in the U.S. by simplifying sourcing and
management of voice, data and cellular service with a single point of contact
and consolidated invoicing for all locations nationwide. Today, Granite
supports customers with a wide range of services, including access, UCaaS, mobile voice and data, and MSP solutions for SD-WAN,
monitoring and network management. Granite employs more than 2,250 people at
its headquarters in Quincy, Massachusetts and 11 regional offices nationwide.
For more information, visit www.granitenet.com.
About Cradlepoint
Cradlepoint enables the freedom to connect
people, places, and things that drive more experiences, more ways to work, and
better business results — anywhere. The company is a pioneer in Wireless WAN,
offering advanced 4G and 5G routers and adapters — controlled through Cradlepoint NetCloudTM.
Enterprise businesses and public sector agencies rely on Cradlepoint
and its Cellular Intelligence to build a reliable, secure network wherever they
need it, connecting fixed and temporary sites, vehicles, IoT devices, and
remote employees. Headquartered in Boise, Idaho, Cradlepoint
is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) and part of their
Business Area Enterprise Wireless Solutions. It has international offices in
Asia Pacific, Canada, Europe, India, and Latin America. www.cradlepoint.com
Granite
Contact:
Jeremy
Robison
PR
Manager
Granite
617-845-4027
jrobison@granitenet.com
Cradlepoint Contact
Travis Barend
Highwire PR
585-880-2045
