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NeoNova Facilitates Regional Telco Growth through Cloud Computing

By Laura Stotler
MSP News™ Contributing Editor

Managed broadband services provider NeoNova Network Services said the company has seen significant growth in the demand for quality broadband cloud services this year. The company added 15 new broadband service providers to its customer base in 2011.

NeoNova customers represent a wide range of geographies and include telcos from 11 states. Those include: Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas and Virginia. The new customers range from a small tribal property in New Mexico up to a large regional service provider in Oklahoma serving nearly 10,000 square miles.

The company believes these communities may now compete at the same level as their urban peers thanks to the expansion of broadband into rural areas. The company enables regional service providers to deliver high-speed access to broadband at the same high-quality level as larger national telcos.

The advent of Google (News - Alert) Apps now also enables more than 40 million people to work in the cloud and smaller telcos can offer subscribers a world-class platform without the need to invest in new hardware or infrastructure. Google Apps is integrated with the NeoNova NovaSubscriber provisioning platform. This adds value by enabling multi-tier administration support, customizable branding, parent/child relationships with email, archive capabilities, account deletion and password requirements and single sign-on capability.

NeoNova has also developed a suite of customized data migration tools to enable a virtually seamless transition to Google for both ISPs and end users. The company attributes its growth to a number of factors including the growing acceptance of cloud computing, increased consumption of broadband and the emergence of integrated platforms with smartphones.

NeoNova cites Forrester's (News - Alert) reports that the global public cloud market is growing rapidly and is expected to reach $159.3 billion by 2020, up from $25.5 billion in 2011.

"Google represents innovation to the business community, and NeoNova provides the essential customer service and direct contact with local telcos," said Ray Carey, CEO of NeoNova.  "In the end, the real chocolate and peanut butter moment was combining the powerful innovation machine of Google with the legendary customer service of our with independent telco partners."

"The value of using NeoNova as our platform to for not only email, but for all the other services our end-users need is powerful," said Kelly Johnson, Data Communications (News - Alert) Manager at Pioneer Communications in Ulysses, Kan.  "They take the complexity out of delivering a complete solution to our customers and keep us innovative with a constantly changing broadband landscape."