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Type
  
Private

Website
  
equiinet.com

Number of employees
  
100

Industry
  
Telecommunications

Founded
  
1998

Headquarters
  
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Key people
  
Dominic Marrocco, Chairman; Leith Martin, President

Products
  
On Premise PBX & Internet Security Appliances

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Equiinet is a privately held company based in Las Vegas, Nevada. The company is the manufacturer of voice and security appliances and provides telecommunications, cloud services, and VoIP services.

Contents

Equiinet manufactures and markets server appliances for armed forces, SME businesses, and schools. The company provides converged voice and data products and services for the network security industry. It offers Tina, a single box product that delivers telephony services. The company also provides VoIP, unified threat management, connectivity failover, caching, URL filtering, and other communication products and services. It serves customers through its partner channels and resellers in the United Kingdom, North America, the Far East, and internationally. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in Bristol, United Kingdom. Equiinet Limited was a former subsidiary of DICA Technologies AG. A business uses PBX technology to manage phone tasks such as call routing, allowing more than one person to be reached from a single number, voicemail, faxing, automated greetings, conference calling, and sending phone calls to the first available person in a department.

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History

The company was founded in London in 1998 by a former Mitel employee Jonas—whom the company credits with coining the term UTM. Current Chairman Dominic Marrocco purchased the company in 2002 and in 2014, company headquarters were moved to Las Vegas, Nevada.

On the technology front, the company released its VoIP feature in 2012

Offerings

Equiinet UTM formerly SentryPilot is a Linux-based security appliance that provides a good mix of antivirus, anti-spam and URL filtering tools in one easy-to-deploy device. Other companies that offer integrated PBX include Star2Star, Vocalocity, Grasshopper, RingCentral, PhonePeople and Phone.com, Velantro, Inc., QuickPBX Internet security companies that offer firewall services include Sonicwall, Watchguard, Checkpoint and Juniper.

References

Equiinet Wikipedia