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brightstack^® Announces e-Rate Provider Certification

brightstack^®, LLC, the leader in hybrid solutions providing the best of both worlds of Cloud and Premise based technology services, today announced official certification as an e-rate provider. This certification allows non-profit private schools, public schools and libraries to receive discounts of up to 90% on their monthly telecommunications costs, subsidized by the government.

New York, NY, February 1, 2013 - brightstack^®, LLC, the leader in hybrid solutions providing the best of both worlds of Cloud and Premise based technology services, today announced official certification as an e-rate provider. This certification allows non-profit private schools, public schools and libraries to receive discounts of up to 90% on their monthly telecommunications costs, subsidized by the government.

Schools and libraries who leverage brightstack^®’s solution benefit from a per user per month fee for voice services; which include the features common with today’s phone systems, plus built-in Business Continuity.

E-rate provides discounts of 20 % to 90 % for eligible telecommunications services, depending on the economic need and location (urban or rural) of the school or library. The level of discount is based on the percentage of students eligible for participation in the National School Lunch Program or other federally approved alternative mechanisms. (Non-public schools and others not participating in the National School Lunch Program can use federally approved alternative mechanisms contained in the Improving America's Schools Act. Details of such mechanisms may be found in "Alternative Discount Mechanisms" on the Schools and Libraries Division (SLD) homepage.

About brightstack^®

The foundation of brightstack^® is customer service. brightstack^®’s clients come to brightstack^® to deliver faster response time, increase network up time, boost efficiency, deploy new technologies, listen to their issues and provide solutions that work. For more information, please visit http://www.brightstack.com

About the e-Rate Program

The E-rate program is administered by the Schools and Libraries Division (SLD) of the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC). The program was set up in 1997 when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted a Universal Service Order implementing the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The Order was designed to ensure that all eligible schools and libraries have affordable access to modern telecommunications and information services. Discounts can be applied to commercially available telecommunications services, Internet access and internal connections. Eligible services range from basic local and long distance phone services and Internet access services to acquisition and installation of equipment to provide internal connections. Under the E-rate program up to $2.25 billion is available annually to provide eligible schools and libraries with discounts for authorized services. For more information pleas visit the SD site. (http://www.universalservice.org/sl/)

brightstack^® Contact:

Lou Person

lou at brightstack

212-812-9450

January 18, 2013 – brightstack^®, LLC (http://www.brightstack.com) , a Technology Service provider based in New York, NY, announced that the organization is seeking to hire additional engineers since they have been awarded a training grant from the City of New York. The New York City Business Solutions office (http://www.nyc.gov) provides training grants to business throughout the city. Through the program, brightstack^® will be providing certification training to existing employees and new hires. The grant provides for ShoreTel engineers to receive between 160 and 340 hours of training in the first year, including ShoreTel Basic, Advanced, Mobility and Contact Center. Engineers will also receive between 120 and 340 hours of CCNA, MCSA, VCP and CSSA (Basic and Advanced) training.

The grant will enable brightstack^® to train engineers who have skills in other technologies, such as Nortel, Avaya, Microsoft or Cisco and are looking to become ShoreTel engineers. Furthermore, engineers with some ShoreTel experience who are looking to move into advanced roles will benefit from the training grant.

“We worked very closely with the City of New York to create a compelling grant application, “ says Louis Person, President of brightstack^®. “The New York City Business Solutions office was excited that we were using the grant to innovate around new technology solutions for our customers. We are committed to training for our employees because it leads to customer satisfaction, employee retention and career growth. We are very appreciative to New York City for this opportunity”. He goes on to say “This is a tremendous opportunity for someone who is strong in one technology to pivot into a new technology. There are great engineers out there who are working with legacy technology, or have mastered one and want to move on to another. This grant provides them the training necessary to move into new technologies and grow in their careers. ”

Candidates who are interested in applying for a full time position to take advantage of the New York City training grant, are advised to visit the job posts here: http://www.brightstack.com/about-us/careers and submit their resume online or by emailing jobs at brightstack^® dot com. Relocation packages are available.

For more information about brightstack^®, please visit the company’s website at http://www.brightstack.com

New York, NY -- -- 04/09/2011 – Wireless networking provides many benefits, but security is a paramount consideration when deploying any Wi-Fi network.  For this reason,  brightstack^® has partnered with Ruckus Wireless. Ruckus Wireless is a strong leader in making sure that corporations around the globe have safe and secure wireless networks.

There are two tiers of partnerships at Ruckus -- Ruckus Inter-Operability Testing (RIOT) for technology partners and BIG DOG specifically for channel partners. With its dedication to the exploding Wi-Fi market, Ruckus is intent on providing channel partners with the best wireless product group utilizing their “Smart Wi-Fi” technology, which uses an intelligent, versatile antenna technology and best-of-class service technologies to broaden the range of Wi-Fi signals while being able to adapt at a moment's notice to environmental changes.

Lou Person, President of brightstack^® says, "After conducting our usual vetting process to select a technology partner, we determined that the Ruckus products are the best wireless network products on the market. This provides us with a Wi-Fi solution that can augment our Mobility offerings, is much more secure, easier to manage and delivers greater reliability. That means we can recommend Ruckus wireless to our clients with the assurance that they will have a superior product."

As New York City’s premiere Technology Services Provider, brightstack^® believes in providing technology as a service, rather than servicing technology.  90% of the relationships they have with their customers are in the post installation phase, when support during normal business use is a major consideration. As a BIG DOG partner, brightstack^® gains the ability to provide highly-skilled, managed wireless services on their client's Ruckus infrastructure from within brightstack^®'s Managed Services platform.

About brightstack^®
The foundation of brightstack^® is customer service. brightstack^®’s clients come to brightstack^® to deliver faster response time, increase network up time, boost efficiency, deploy new technologies, listen to their issues and provide solutions that work.

If your business is looking for superior wireless products or you wish to have more information about our company, please call (212) 812-9450, Option 2 or email us at sales@brightstack.com.