MegaPath was a business telecommunications company. Founded in 1996, it provided

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internet access Internet access is a facility or service that provides connectivity for a computer, a computer network, or other network device to the Internet, and for individuals or organizations to access or use applications such as email and the World Wide ...

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, and

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

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. In 2018, MegaPath was acquired by cloud service provider Fusion Connect for $71.5 million.

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, 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 2012 the company acquired IP5280. and also completed a nationwide

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(EoC) network expansion. In 2014, MegaPath launched its Unified Communications service. Around the same time, the Chicago-based services company, Global Capacity, 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 2015, the company sold its wholesale division, along with a portion of its managed services business to Global Capacity, and announced plans to focus resources and investments more heavily on the high-growth cloud and unified communications markets. In 2018, MegaPath was acquired by cloud service provider Fusion Connect, a telecom company previous called Fusion Telecommunications International, 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,

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, 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 known as IP telephony, is a set of technologies used primarily for voice communication sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet. VoIP enables voice calls to be transmitted as ...

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

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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 cloud hosting, 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 and SSL

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

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and

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protection, intrusion detection, and

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

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compliance.Chidester, Ashlan (2024). ''Linked Up, Not Passing Traffic Ver.2''. pp. 150.

References

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External links

Official website
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