Explore Grandstream’s comprehensive network portfolio

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Over the past 20 years, Grandstream has made a name for itself by providing specially designed IP telephony solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. The company has since expanded its portfolio, adding a comprehensive suite of networking products and solutions.

In this article, we showcase Grandstream's telecom and networking portfolio and how it offers a comprehensive network solution for virtually any SMB.

Importance of telecom infrastructure

Telecommunications, networking, and information technology systems are integral to virtually all modern businesses. They are as vital as electricity and running water for day-to-day operations.

According to some sources, total ICT costs can exceed 10% of revenue, making ICT spending among the top five expenses within a business's annual budget. This makes adopting a cost-effective and functional strategy for ICT system deployment and management of vital importance.

With this in mind, Grandstream continues to expand its portfolio to align with these business needs.

Grandstream's portfolio

The company started in the early 2000s, focusing on SIP-based IP phones. Grandstream designed these phones to be completely compatible with any SIP-based IP PBX platform, catering to a growing VoIP market. Today, the Grandstream line of IP phones continues to be the "bread and butter" product for the company.

Its IP phone lineup includes both consumer-grade and carrier-grade phones with advanced features like touchscreens and HD audio, and are well-suited for a range of environments, from front desks to executive offices. Grandstream also offers a line of phones especially designed for hotels.

However, its portfolio is no longer limited to IP telephones; it has expanded to encompass all areas of network infrastructure, including Wi-Fi access points, routers and switches, gateways and ATAs (analog telephone adapters), IP-PBX, and cloud management systems.

Networking solutions

Grandstream has made noteworthy advancements in its networking solutions product line. The company has developed powerful and secure network devices for both wired and wireless infrastructure.

Wireless options

Grandstream has developed indoor and outdoor Wi-Fi access points (APs) on the wireless front.

The indoor APs deliver various options, with many access points supporting the cutting-edge Wi-Fi 6 standard. You can easily deploy these devices and inconspicuously install them in virtually any indoor environment with both ceiling- and wall-mountable options.

Grandstream has also developed an innovative wireless access point-switch hybrid. This is a Wi-Fi 6 access point with an integrated PoE switch that can serve both wired and wireless endpoints, and can provide PoE to other devices.

Grandstream's outdoor APs provide a wide range of options ideal for enterprises, warehouses, hotels, resorts, parks, hospitals, schools, higher-education institutions, and other organizations with extensive outdoor grounds. These, too, offer Wi-Fi 6 as well as innovative PoE and deployment options.

Wired products

Wireless and UC services are only as good as the underlying wired network infrastructure that serves them. Grandstream has developed a complete series of network switches and routers that are ideal for SMBs, delivering the rock-solid network foundation that these services require.

Grandstream's line of switches ranges from unmanaged switches to layer 2 managed, layer 3 managed, and aggregation switches designed for the network backbone. Even the largest SMBs will be able to fulfill network infrastructure needs using this wide range of switches.

The company also offers routers designed to enhance and optimize network deployments. These routers are packed with features such as VPN support, NAT, content filtering, load balancing, and failover capabilities, making them an excellent choice for deployment at the network edge.

Additionally, they provide robust built-in firewall functionalities, including DDNS, DMZ, UPnP, Anti-DOS, and ALG, ensuring a secure and reliable solution for protecting your network's perimeter.

Additional management services

In addition to UC, wired, and wireless network products, Grandstream elegantly completes its portfolio with some additional offerings that are of vital importance to businesses of all types:

Facility management is a holistic approach to building security. Facility management systems include control stations, intercoms and paging, and facility access systems, all leveraging the extant network infrastructure. Grandstream offers complete facility management solutions that integrate effortlessly into the company's product ecosystem.
Cloud management is becoming ever more important in today's business environment as more devices are connected to the network. Centrally managing these devices reduces management costs and increases efficiency and productivity. Grandstream offers the Grandstream Device Management System (GDMS) — a cloud-based solution used to provision, manage, monitor, and troubleshoot Grandstream products — as well as GWN.Cloud and GWN Manager.

Big convergence solutions for small businesses

One final note worth mentioning is the company's dedication to innovation, specifically geared towards SMBs. Grandstream's GCC series of devices is an example of this, as they seek to provide even the smallest businesses with all the capabilities of their larger counterparts by delivering as much functionality as possible in as small a package as possible.

The GCC series devices integrate a VPN router, next-generation firewall, and IP PBX with either a network switch or Wi-Fi access point to offer a single device that can do it all. This gives even very small businesses communications capabilities and features that would otherwise be too expensive to obtain and manage.

Grandstream's holistic approach

The extensive range of devices and services offered caters to virtually every communications need SMBs may have. Grandstream deigned all of these systems to seamlessly integrate with one another, enabling the creation of a fully comprehensive communications solution.

Thanks to their modular nature, businesses can gradually adopt various products and services, making it easier to fully embrace the Grandstream ecosystem over time.

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Conclusion

Grandstream's comprehensive product portfolio demonstrates its commitment to providing SMBs with versatile, scalable, and innovative solutions for unified communications, networking, facility management, and device management. By integrating these offerings, businesses can streamline operations, enhance collaboration, and build a secure, future-ready infrastructure tailored to their needs.