How it works
Discover new ways to elevate your business.
We believe the right technology can elevate your business.
With a “gap closing” mindset and tailored approach, our solutions complement your existing data, skills and working technologies, delivering more significant results and cost control. It’s the right level of new tools, managed services, AI automation, network & collaboration enhancements and security that leads to greater success.
Single or Global Connectivity
Our program is tailored to meet the unique needs of each client, from a single location business to a global Enterprise with unique needs for Internet, Wi-Fi, cellular, LEO, wide area network, IoT, voice and advanced cyber-threat management.
Collaboration, UCaaS, CCaaS
We help bring your teams together with supportive and interactive virtual environments for more professional and personal success. Using the power of AI and your data, we cost-effectively elevate your Contact Center, voice and UCaaS experiences for staff and customers.
Video and IoT
GSN experienced experts can architect AI enhanced solutions for IoT, video security, facilities access, automated lighting, digital signage, energy and water monitoring, alarm systems and other devices – all cloud connected and integrated with full visibility, control and security.
Cloud and Hybrid Computing
Our recommendations are designed to empower you with the knowledge, complementary skills and services for a smooth transition into this new chapter for your business. We provide managed IT support, help desk and scalable cloud and hybrid computing with lasting benefits and ROI.
At GSN, we match the right services from 1000’s of partners to meet your exact needs.
Stronger Networks. Smarter Business.
Learn and DISCOVERY
Technology consulting – meet now, for free
At your convenience, meet with an insightful technology advisor, introducing them to your business. With a deep commitment to your success, our experts will learn about your current situation and goals, making recommendations that can help solve your biggest challenges.
Discover your future, Dream Big.
Technology coaching transforms your dreams into a successful reality. Hear what our technology advisors say about our work:
At GSN we can significantly boost a org’s performance with co-management from a team of like-minded professionals. Choosing the right partners is a game-changer for network and security management for any sized business. I see instant returns when a client’s IT staff can shift focus from babysitting devices and security logs, to focus on core applications and major projects. Turning over device updates and threat monitoring to our partners is a huge win.
– Assist for an IT Infrastructure Director of multi–site Financial Business
Deploying a new Virtual Meeting platform can lead to better client engagements and professional appeal for a business or department. Our tech advisor’s guidance helped a client overcome issues where customer experience was suffering during routine project discussions. Connecting digitally face-to-face with great performance and a polished appearance, aided by AI workflows and a better scheduling process, this helped enhance their project meetings and client + employee satisfaction.
– Deployment of a virtual meeting platform for a VP of Project Management at a global Engineering Firm
Assisting GSN’s clients with work-life balance has been a common ask, sort of. It’s not usually a stated goal, but reading between the lines, I see it pop up often within the framework of our discovery meetings. As a lawyer and new mother, a small business owner was seeking help to seamlessly work between an office and home. Adding a VoIP phone solution and migrating some business applications to the cloud gave her with the needed changes and support. She can work from anywhere with the same experience. GSN’s expert guidance helped her start parenthood with a healthy work-life balance and this solution can be scaled to any sized business.
– Digital Transformation for a Small Business Owner, Real Estate Law
Portfolio of Choices
Gulf State Networks partners with leading Internet, telecom, cybersecurity, MSP, AI platform and appliance manufacturers. Also, computer, cloud, data center, VoIP and managed service providers.
Our neutral position allows us to tap into a wide variety of partners and fine-tune solutions that can achieve any budget and technical consideration.
Senior technology advisors have over 28 years of individual experience and have been delivering leading edge solutions for well known brands in the Fortune 5000, mid-market and small Enterprise companies in retail, hospitality, restaurant, professional services, financial & healthcare, professional sports teams, manufacturing and small businesses of nearly every type.
Tell us about your challenges today.
Telecom and IT Services
- Global Internet & WAN
- Managed Network, Wi-Fi
- Cybersecurity, SOCaaS, MDR, XDR, EDR, UTM, managed appliance & more
- UCaaS and Voice Solutions
- Telecom Expense Management
Operational Services
- CXE, CXaaS, Contact Center
- Voice & Collaboration Solutions
- AI Dev, IoT Monitoring, Analytics
- Video security & facilities access
- Data Center, Saas & Cloud
- Compute Infrastructure
SOLUTION EXAMPLES
Take a Deeper Look
Secure Digital Transformation
Unlock your full potential with an intensive, deep-dive into a security solution designed to off-load threat monitoring and response, outsourcing those skills and tasks to our next-level experts.
BACKGROUND
A regional, 24 site, engineering firm concerned for intellectual property theft and a desire for fast response to any intentional or accidental file access or distribution. Bonus challenge, the solution needs to support collaboration and performance across all sites.
ESTIMATED PROJECT TIME FROM 1st CONSULT TO TESTED IMPLEMENTATION
90 – 120 Days
SOLUTION
In this scenario, GSN recommends relocating some on-premise systems and applications to a co-location data center to enhance physical security and create distance for disaster recovery. Other considerations include:
∙ Increasing Internet bandwidth for primary access while adding secondary circuits for business continuity.
∙ Upgrade basic broadband to a more robust Enterprise-class Internet at the data center and central staff offices.
∙ Add managed security services for Extended Detection and Response (XDR) and Endpoint Detection and Response Service (EDR) with a 24x7x365 SOC (secure operation center) service.
The right vendor will go beyond letting the A.I. handle 100% of the analysis. They will also review device logs and use human monitoring and respond to any anomalies in real-time.
GSN can help a client rewrite their internal data handling policies to advise employees of common threats and our SOC vendor can implement controls to catch any accidental or intention file transfers or email attachments before they leave the secure network.
In this scenario, GSN is compensated by the vendor partners, so our client only pays a negotiated, fixed monthly rate to each vendor for the services, giving them cost control and measurable ROI.
Small Business, Big Time
Stay ahead of your need to communicate with new Internet and a competitively costed VoIP and Collaboration service designed to facilitate professional meetings and keep your business relevant in today’s ever-changing market.
BACKGROUND
A two location financial firm is relocating the main office, seeking a solution to replace an aged phone system and do away with a mix of virtual meeting applications that offer no support consistency for their financial advisors.
ESTIMATED PROJECT TIME FROM 1ST CONSULT TO TESTED IMPLEMENTATION
30 – 45 Days
SOLUTION
To meet the needs of the firm’s 20 staff across 2 locations and a desire to support working remotely, GSN recommends a managed Unified Communications (UCaaS) solution from a single vendor partner.
A UCaaS solution is a platform with voice, virtual meeting, virtual fax and contact management hooks all in a single platform. The “phone system” is cloud-based and includes a professionally voiced Auto Attendant and names directory with customizable settings. Each of the employees can have a single call presence (like a profile) across all devices – desk phone, mobile phone, laptop, desktop PC and any web browser – virtually everywhere. This allows for a seamless experience. Users can access a conference bridge via phone or set-up virtual meetings from a computer or mobile phone. The software integrates with common Contact Manager applications for easy click-to-dial calling and logging of each call.
Choosing the right partner can offer a simple annual service agreement and fixed monthly bill that avoids a large capital outlay and has lower overall costs and complexity for the client. Also, the client gains better support for its office admin and staff.
In this scenario, GSN is compensated by the vendor partner for recommending the solution and the financial firm gains a technology advisor and UCaaS solution, with no up-front consulting fees.
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