Northwood, OH – December 8, 2021 - Telesystem, a leading nationwide provider of managed communication, collaboration, networking, infrastructure, and security solutions, has named their Top Broker and Top Distributor award winners for the third quarter of 2021. Award winners in each category are determined based on factoring involving new business attainment, existing account growth, churn management, and sales funnel activity. The award designations split Telesystem’s previous award for overall excellence into two different awards for the respective business model of the agency.
Telarus, the number one technology solutions brokerage in the United States, was named ‘Top Broker’ for the third quarter. Telarus has been a Telesystem partner since early 2018 and is one of only eight brokerages designated as ‘Elite’ in Telesystem’s channel program.
“We are delighted to experience tremendous growth with Telesystem,” said Shane Speakman, vice president of UCaaS for Telarus. “They are fantastic colleagues who continue to invest heavily in the resources to be a terrific supplier for our partner community. We are eagerly anticipating more success in 2022 with the addition of Ron McNab, who has been an advocate for Telarus for years.”
The award for Top Distributor went to Stratus ip, who earned Telesystem’s Most Valuable Agent award in the second quarter under the previous award structure. Stratus ip is a rapidly growing direct-to-market technology solutions distributor and has been a Telesystem partner for over ten years.
“Having a great sales month is always nice, BUT, hitting your sales goals with our carrier partners each and every month is even better," said Mike Dlug, CEO of Stratus ip. "That is what we strive for, and getting this award for the second quarter in a row from Telesystem shows we have been able to accomplish that. Our top-notch sales team, alongside our top-notch Channel Manager, Lou Cirucci, continue to produce day in and day out. Great job Stratus ip sales team and Lou!”
Telesystem’s focus is on multi-site, multi-product, managed solutions, emphasizing white-glove implementation and support. Their customer acquisition strategy focuses on the indirect sales channel and the national technology partner community. Telesystem has seen tremendous channel growth over the past year, with the number of active selling partners more than doubling year over year.
“Our success would not be possible without partnerships like the ones we have with Telarus and Stratus ip,” said Telesystem Chief Revenue Officer Bruce Wirt. “The channel is what fuels the growth of our sales activity; we’ve made significant investments in our channel growth over the last few years, and I think we’re just scratching the surface of what we can do as an organization.”
About Telesystem
For over 25 years, Telesystem has been empowering businesses across the country with a range of innovative network, communication and collaboration solutions designed to address the business-specific needs of each customer. Guided by strategic partnerships and a customer-centric mission, these customized solutions are backed with white-glove implementation and 24/7 US-based support.
Telesystem currently delivers enterprise collaboration solutions and networking services to businesses in 45 states, DC, and four foreign countries. Their customers include hospitals, universities, local public and private school districts, banks, multi-location retail establishments, and regional government offices, to name a few.
About Stratus ip
Stratus ip is one of the leading UCaaS, bandwidth, cybersecurity, and advanced voice solution agents in the country, helping simplify our customers’ business technology needs. For over a decade, Stratus ip has helped IT executives and business owners tackle their voice, data, and cybersecurity challenges by helping source the right solutions based on their company’s specific needs.
From healthcare, finance, legal, and more, Stratus ip has made business technology simple for our customers by focusing on our customer’s needs first: always. Headquartered in Moorsetown, New Jersey, Stratus ip has a national footprint, featuring a southeast office in Jacksonville, Florida, and a west coast office in San Diego, California.
About Telarus
Built for You, Telarus is the largest privately held technology solutions brokerage in the United States, Canada, UK, Australia, and New Zealand. Our dynamic agent-partner community sources data, voice, cloud, and managed services through our robust portfolio of 288 leading service providers. We are best known for our home-grown software pricing tools and mobile apps unique in the industry. To help our partners grow their businesses, we have assembled the best support organization in the industry, including SD-WAN, Cloud, mobility, IoT, contact center, and ILEC specialty practices. The primary goal is to help our partners identify and design the right technology solutions for their customers. To learn more about the Telarus opportunity, please visit www.telarus.com, or follow us on Twitter @Telarus.