MegaPath was a business telecommunications company. In 2018, MegaPath was acquired by cloud service provider Fusion Connect for $71.5 million. Founded in 1996, it provides a

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unified communications Unified communications (UC) is a business and marketing concept describing the integration of enterprise communication services such as instant messaging (chat), presence information, voice (including IP telephony), mobility features (including ...

, internet access, Managed Security Services, and

cloud computing Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage ( cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user. Large clouds often have functions distributed over mu ...

services to carrier and service-provider businesses in the United States. The company was headquartered in

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. In 2010, MegaPath acquired the voice communications specialists

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and the network provider

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, which they merged with their existing portfolio of

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and

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to form a single company. In 2015, the company sold its wholesale division, along with a portion of its managed services business to

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, and announced plans to focus resources and investments more heavily on the high-growth cloud and unified communications markets.

History

The company was founded in 1996. Over the next several years the company made acquisitions of other vendors: Phoenix Networks in 2000, Epoch Networks in 2002, TManage in 2003, the services operation of Aventail Corporation in 2005, IP Merchant Solutions in 2007, and DSL.net in 2009. In 2010 the company merged with Covad and Speakeasy. In 2012 the company acquired IP5280. and also completed a nationwide Ethernet over copper (EoC) network expansion. In 2014, MegaPath launched its Unified Communications service. Around the same time, the Chicago-based services company,

, announced a definitive agreement with MegaPath to acquire MegaPath's Wholesale Network Services business unit. MegaPath and Global Capacity finalized this transaction on January 6, 2015. Upon closing of the transaction, MegaPath announced it will focus on driving growth and expanding its core value-added Voice, Data, Security and Cloud services. In 2018, MegaPath was acquired by cloud service provider Fusion Connect for $71.5 million.

Voice services

MegaPath offered hosted voice services for single-site and multi-site businesses. Its voice services support calling features including find me/follow me, visual voicemail, call recording and mobile integration, aiming to reduce the costs and complexity of managing and maintaining a PBX. Its

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and enterprise trunking services are designed to allow customers to use the features of

VoIP Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), also called IP telephony, is a method and group of technologies for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet. The terms Internet t ...

with their existing PBX equipment. In July 2014, MegaPath announced a partnership with CounterPath Corporation to deliver CounterPath Bria desktop, tablet and mobile unified communications services through MegaPath's Hosted Voice service. The

Unified Communications Unified communications (UC) is a business and marketing concept describing the integration of enterprise communication services such as instant messaging (chat), presence information, voice (including IP telephony), mobility features (including ...

solution include presence, instant messaging,

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collaboration,

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, fixed-mobile convergence, and

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Cloud services

MegaPath Cloud services included

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, hosted exchange, hosted data backup, and hosted

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Managed security services

MegaPath offered security services such as

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ing, which include

IPsec In computing, Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) is a secure network protocol suite that authenticates and encrypts packets of data to provide secure encrypted communication between two computers over an Internet Protocol network. It is used in ...

and SSL

VPN A virtual private network (VPN) extends a private network across a public network and enables users to send and receive data across shared or public networks as if their computing devices were directly connected to the private network. The be ...

services for connecting geographically distributed and mobile workforces. MegaPath also provided unified threat management services which include

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and

anti-spyware Spyware (a portmanteau for spying software) is software with malicious behaviour that aims to gather information about a person or organization and send it to another entity in a way that harms the user—for example, by violating their priva ...

protection, intrusion detection, and

web filtering An Internet filter is software that restricts or controls the content an Internet user is capable to access, especially when utilized to restrict material delivered over the Internet via the Web, Email, or other means. Content-control software det ...

. The company also offered Compliance Services that solves log, vulnerability, and security information management issues, such as PCI compliance.

References

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External links

Official website
Companies based in Atlanta Telecommunications companies of the United States American companies established in 1996 Telecommunications companies established in 1996 VoIP companies Cloud communication platforms