
Small-Business-Minded
Any small-business networking vendor worth its salt will tell you that networking isn’t a one-size-fits-all endeavor.
Simply slapping a “For SMB” label onto existing wired and wireless offerings originally designed for enterprises doesn’t cater to the unique flexibility and cost-conscious requirements facing many small-business customers. Luckily, there’s a segment of the networking market that focuses first and foremost on small-business customers. These players are armed with not only access points, switches and routers, but cloud-based management platforms, managed security and video offerings. Best of all, these companies are also channel-friendly and many have their own partner programs in addition to going to market through global distributors.
Here are 10 small-business networking vendors and their portfolio of SMB-focused hardware and software-based products and services that solutions providers should take a look at this year.