New Richmond, Virginia location provides more facilities to demonstrate advanced technology solutions

TBL Networks today announced that they have moved their headquarters to a new location at 1801 Bayberry Court, Suite 202, Richmond, VA 23226. With this move, TBL Networks, a Cisco Gold Certified Partner, becomes suite neighbors to the Richmond Cisco office.

“We are very fortunate that our growth has necessitated this move,” said Alan Sears, President and CEO of TBL Networks, Inc. “This new office will allow us to continue to provide the highest level of support to our clients, in addition to providing more facilities to demonstrate the advanced solutions that TBL provides. These advantages will help TBL continue to bring the best information technology solutions to businesses in Central Virginia, while never forgetting the importance of customer service and community.”

TBL Networks is the only technology integrator in the Commonwealth of Virginia with five Cisco Voice CCIEs. TBL’s Voice Engineers have personally deployed over 30,000 IP Phones and more than 2,700 Call Center Call Seats. In addition, TBL Networks employs Central Virginia’s only VMware VCDX, and two EMC Technical Architects.

In 2011, TBL Networks was named to the CRN’s Next-Gen 250 and the Inc 500. In addition, TBL’s CEO Alan Sears was recently named as one of Richmond’s Top 40 under 40, and two TBL Datacenter engineers were recognized as VMware vExperts.

TBL pursues the goal of techumanity, the positive synergy between technology and humanity. TBL lives this ideal by working with the international World Community Grid for cancer research and local charity CJ’s Thumbs Up Foundation, which supports families with children facing chronic and life threatening illness.

TBL’s new office space will provide more room for examples of the latest technology in Voice, Virtualization, Storage and Disaster Recovery. The new office will have two Cisco TelePresence System 1100s, a 65” plasma display, camera, microphones, and integrated lighting system for immersive video meetings. Also, TBL’s new office will house a VCE Vblock, the world’s first completely integrated infrastructure for rapid virtualization deployment offering that is comprised of technology from VMware, Cisco, EMC and Intel.

About TBL Networks, Inc.
TBL Networks is about moving forward with innovative technology. With over 60 years of combined technical expertise, we empower clients’ collaboration, virtualization and data centers to do more with less. TBL delivers these advanced solutions directly where it counts the most – the desktop. Building secure and reliable solutions that introduce efficiencies in human interaction is how we see the future. Let us take you there at http://www.theblinkylight.com.

Richmond, VA (August 18th, 2011) – Cisco announced today that TBL Networks, Inc. has met the requirements and criteria necessary to earn the designation of Cisco Gold Certified Partner, the pinnacle partner certification available from Cisco.

Cisco Gold Certified Partners demonstrate the highest level of expertise with a minimum of four Cisco Voice Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) on staff, and have achieved the highest level of credibility with a comprehensive range of expertise by achieving the four Cisco Advanced Specializations in Unified Communications, Routing and Switching, Security, and Wireless LAN. They have also integrated the deepest level of Cisco Lifecycle Services proficiency into their offerings and demonstrate a measurably high level of customer satisfaction.

“TBL Networks is extremely proud to be recognized as a Cisco Gold Partner, “said Alan Sears, President and CEO of TBL Networks, Inc. “This certification not only recognizes our success in offering the best technology with the most talented expertise in Central Virginia, but also recognizes our commitment to providing our clients with outstanding customer service.”

TBL Networks is the only Cisco Partner in the Commonwealth of Virginia with five Cisco Voice CCIEs, and holds all six Advanced Specializations that are available from Cisco.

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About TBL Networks, Inc.
TBL Networks provides a wide range of advanced technology solutions to clients. At TBL Networks, unparalleled service and support is our number one priority. With over 35 years of combined experience in Unified Communications, TBL is the number one provider for Cisco of their Unified Communications solutions for the Commercial market in Virginia. TBL’s Solutions Engineers have personally installed over 30,000 Cisco IP Phones and deployed over 2,700 Cisco Call Center Seats in customer networks around the world. For company information, please visit  http://www.theblinkylight.com.

Posted by Steve Glissman

Earlier this year, TBL Networks received the opportunity to raise funds for CJ’s Thumbs Up Foundation (AKA CJSTUF), a wonderful local charity that raises funds to provide financial assistance to families of children with chronic and life threatening illnesses.  As a contribution to help CJSTUF, the Richmond Flying Squirrels generously donated the chance to throw out the ceremonial first pitch at a Squirrels’ game.  This gift was auctioned at our charity virtual golf tournament, and the winning bidder was no other than TBL’s own Patrick Tredway.

Despite the looming threat of rain and potential for YouTube infamy, Patrick found a way to focus on the task at hand, and, most importantly, not embarrass himself.  While his pitch might have been a little high, the ball easily made its way into the catcher’s mitt.

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