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Success as a Service: 3GC Group
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GC Group was conceived
in January 2003 as a result
of enterprise and carrier
businesses that were ill-served by
the technology service providers
who were inexperienced with the
“Converged Networks” movement in
technology; migrating all business
communication applications onto a
unified data network.
The key strength of 3GC Group
in servicing clients around
converged networks was a core
philosophy to have each of 3GC’s
engineers achieve core expertise
and experience across multiple
IT disciplines. As the needs of
customers have grown and the
IT industry has evolved, this core
philosophy, called E-Cubed, has
allowed 3GC Group to expand and
provide higher levels of efficiency
and translated into both cost and
time savings for clients. Today,
through continued focus on multi-
disciplinary engineers, 3GC Group
provides consulting, solution design,
implementation, and full-scale MSP
services to clients throughout the US
and internationally across a broad
range of network infrastructure
technologies.
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3GC Group has built enterprise
solutions around converged
networks technologies and has
grown to 45 specialized employees
and 7 locations around this practice;
3 in California: Los Angeles, San
Jose, and Richmond with additional
offices in New York, Nevada, Canada,
and South Korea. 3GC Group has
strong domestic and global reach
with clients all across the United
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States, South America, Europe,
Canada, China, India, Korea, and
Japan.
SOLUTION DESIGN
In designing a network, the
E-Cubed philosophy is especially
valuable to clients as 3GC provides
detailed configuration tests and
catches potential problems during
the planning and design phase,
reducing delays during the actual
implementation and set up process.
In large networks upgrading or
replacing parts of a network can
have adverse effects on other inter-
dependent systems. 3GC provides
detailed analyses of all components
of a network, from the phone system
to WAN connections, to bandwidth,
gateways, routers, switching
infrastructure, and network
security to ensure that all systems
touching the network are carefully
considered in the final design.
Network Infrastructure
Network infrastructure core
expertise is the foundation of 3GC
Group’s E-Cubed philosophy. By
requiring engineers to be triple
trained on converged technology,
perimeter technology, and core
networking infrastructure, 3GC
engineers can finely tune solution
design for new networks and
quickly troubleshoot legacy
networks for faster turn-around
solutions. While the converged
technology and perimeter
technology may vary from engineer
to engineer, the focal point for
every engineer is core network
infrastructure. All of 3GC’s engineers
are certified on either Juniper or
Cisco or both, with a particular focus
on L2-L3 networking.
3GC Group’s most common initial
interaction with clients centers on
optimizing existing networks. Many
networks, without fine tuning, often
run at 30-40% of their optimum
capability. By fine-tuning network
configurations to carefully optimize
communication and route hops,
managing node relationships, and
re-architecting VLANs and routing,
as well a house-cleaning EoL node
where required, many networks can
boost performance and reliability
up to 3x without purchasing
new equipment or completely
re-designing a network from
scratch. This can often be a stopgap
measure with upgrades being
carefully spaced out to minimize
cost-prohibitive capex impact, or
project planned for a seamlessly
timed rip and replace to minimize
opex impact and ensure reduced
technical support requirements over
time.
Unified Communications
The 3GC E-cubed method brings you
unified communication solutions
through a converged network that
includes WAN, VOIP, Video across
all types of employees whether they
are in the main location, multiple
locations, mobile or remote. 3GC
starts by looking at the WAN, LAN,
current usage, and future goals
then redesign the flows to optimize
clients’ goals.
The company believes that the
best way to evolve is to understand
clients’ needs by optimizing the