Smartcom Telephone, LLC welcomes new Account Manager Robert Sanchez to our SLED/E-Rate Team. Robert Sanchez is a great new addition to our team. Robert possesses over 30 years experience in the K-12/E-Rate and Technology space. We look forward to working … Read More

Smartcom DDoS Protection by Corero SmartWall® Threat Defense System (TDS) Go-Live October 8, 2021. Smartcom DDoS Protection Services now available to ORION members. Contact Ali Kolahdouz with ESC1 for pricing and information.

Smartcom selects Corero SmartWall® Threat Defense System (TDS) by Corero Network Security. Smartcom to begin offering DDoS Protection Services in September 2021 to ORION members. Contact Ali Kolahdouz with ESC1 for pricing and information.

Due to the overwhelming traffic demands from the Google Network, Smartcom has added additional capacity and is now active.

Smartcom adds additional capacity to our Google PNI in Dallas to support the high usage demands of our ORION and other K-12 uses to Google Meet, Google Drive, Google Classroom and Youtube.

Smartcom has established a Dedicated Private Network Interconnect with Google in Dallas to accommodate increased traffic demands of ORION and other K-12 customers from the Google network services.

Service Completion Notices were emailed out beginning 6/8/2020 last noticed email out on 6/15/2020. The notice provides switch port information along with ORION assigned IP address information for Members. All Member ports will be available for testing by end of … Read More

In our efforts to improve Internet routing security, we have joined MANRS, which is a global initiative, supported by the Internet Society, that provides essential fixes to reduce the most common routing threats. As part of our membership with MANRS, … Read More

Smartcom has established peering with Texas DIR. This will allow ORION Members access to sites peered with Texas DIR which include 30 plus entities. Description    IPv6    Peer    Austin Independent School District AS54933 Brazosport College AS19856 City of Austin, Texas AS393759 … Read More

Smartcom Telephone, LLC is actively monitoring the status of COVID-19 and its impact on our support staff. On behalf of all Smartcom employees, our thoughts are with those impacted by the virus and we hope that it is contained soon. … Read More

Smartcom Telephone is the only provider in South Texas to implement RPKI. Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) is a cryptographic method of signing records that associate a BGP route announcement with the correct originating AS number. RPKI is defined in … Read More

Link to complete article by valley town crier here.