TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE SOLUTIONS
The RightBox ®
The Opportunity
The Vicknair Solutions Group recognizes that enabling a business’s remote or branch locations requires significant technology commitments. To be successful, these business locations depend on a complex infrastructure of technology components:
- Phone systems – multiple lines, automated service, voice-recognition technology, voice over IP system, voicemail, etc
- Low-voltage wiring infrastructure (voice & data cabling)
- Server and computer hardware systems
- Wireless routers and links for data transmission, WiFi hotspot and internet
- Controlled access systems – alarms, facilities monitoring, security cameras and tape or digital storage
- Audio-Visual Systems – Video conferencing screens and bridge lines, media players and display units, digital signage, broadcast content technology (satellite dishes, DirectTV, VGA hookups) and executive boardroom presentation systems
- Broadcast content technology – satellite dishes, DirectTV, VGA hookups, etc
- Rack and cabinet cooling systems
- Printers and fax machines
- Teller and cash systems
As a result, many businesses’s become mired in the problems and issues associated with such a multifaceted infrastructure:
- Managing business technology implementations and support can be over-complicated
- Vendor solutions package a couple of the technologies but not the complete package
- Technology vendors install their solutions independently and rarely work together, which can result in technical or electrical conflicts and violations of building codes and specifications
- Coordinating multiple vendor interoperability requires detailed planning and research
- Staging vendors becomes a just-in-time implementation timeline, with each event becoming a critical path activity that could delay the others (e.g. a server room cooling system buildout delay would delay the installation of cabling, servers, data transmission links, security camera digital storage, telephone system)
- Technology refresh requires detailed research, planning and cost
- Technology needs can take up a significant space “footprint”
- Business continuity, data backup and disaster recovery brings additional complexity, space requirements, cooling system requirements and significant cost
- Typical combined solutions from vendors are not transportable
- Purchase, installation and refresh of technologies normally requires significant capital outlays
The Solution
In order to help business owners resolve these complexities, the Vicknair Solutions Group proudly offers The RightBox®. A complete business technology infrastructure solution for any small to medium-sized remote or branch location. The RightBox® is a integrated solution console that is custom-configured based on the customer’s needs and plans for growth.
Key features of The RightBox® include:
- One-stop-shop for all location infrastructure technology needs, including system design, implementation, support, maintenance, refresh, backup and disaster recovery
- Consolidates all equipment into custom-sized box or cabinet, right-sized to fit needs and environment
- Consolidated technology “footprint”
- All low-voltage cabling infrastructure terminates in the “box”
- “Box” technology solution can be portable and easily moved if locations are changed
- Business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities
- Allows for “just-in-time” installation of technology when it is needed
- Utilizes commercially-available technology components
- “Boxed” technology solution can be purchased or leased by customer. Leased solution would make normally fixed costs variable costs