TORONTO — A new company formed by Telus, called GoCo, officially launched today offering Canadian businesses a suite of communication and collaboration solutions from a number of partner providers.
GoCo combines the expertise of bluArc, BroadConnect Canada, Infra-Solutions, Netrium, Radiant and Ubity to provide businesses across Canada with simple, scalable solutions for unified communications, managed connectivity and network security. Backed by Telus, GoCo already serves more than 4,400 businesses, 100,000 unified communications users and 27,500 managed network sites, supporting a roster of customers such as Tim Hortons, Shell and La Vie en Rose.
“As communications technology for business continues to rapidly evolve and improve, too many companies still don’t have access to the right tools they need to succeed. We created GoCo to change that,” said Benoit Simard, president of GoCo, in the company’s news release. “GoCo brings together diverse, experienced technology entrepreneurs, who have a shared belief that there is a better way to help businesses connect with their customers and the world. Working with GoCo, businesses can be disruptive by using simple, scalable solutions with speed, and grow with confidence.”
GoCo’s innovative model provides a suite of solutions on one platform that is easy for businesses to implement and use with little-to-no IT expertise, says the release.
The solutions include:
Unified Communications:
- Cloud business collaboration tools
- Call and contact centre
- SIP trunking
- Direct routing for Microsoft Teams
Managed Connectivity:
- SD-WAN
- Secure VPN and MPLS (multiprotocol label switching)
- Business Internet
- 4G LTE wireless backup
- Wi-Fi and analytics
Network Security:
- Unified threat management
- DDoS protection
- Managed firewall
For more information, please visit GoCo.ca.
