Growth continues - combined resources enhance services to clients
Accent Information Systems, a regional leader in sales of business telephone technology, data and converged network solutions, announced today that it has acquired the cabling and IP telephony business, along with selected assets from Newcome Electronic Systems headquartered in Columbus Ohio. This transaction is an important part of Accent’s aggressive growth strategy to expand its service capacity throughout Ohio.

Our President, Frank Goode stated, “This partnership will allow clients of Newcome Electronic Systems to continue to enjoy the high level of service and support they’ve had over the past 30⁺ years”. Tim Newcome of Newcome Electronics said, “I wanted to find a well-established, professional company that is committed to the community and Accent’s reputation is second to none; I believe they will continue our legacy of first-class performance and leave our customers well served”.

Businesses look for a partner that can provide the structured cabling solution that works along with the data network backbone and then delivers a solution to the desktop that fulfills customer’s needs. Over the past 17 years Accent has helped many companies reach this goal.

Our two organizations have worked on some mutual accounts throughout the years and with this acquistion will be adding some notable names to the Accent client list.

Accent will support all clients that use HP ProCurve data equipment, Proxim Broadband Wireless and ShoreTel IP telephone equipment. Newcome clients will continue to use the existing Newcome phone number and website.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has been quoted as saying there will be, "no media consumption left in 10 years that is not delivered over an IP network." Ballmer continued to say there “will be no newspapers, no magazines that are delivered in paper form. Everything gets delivered in an electronic form.”

To this I say, duh!!!

Somebody sign me up for CEO out west and I'll shout from the mountain top obvious statements. I don't mean to be over the top here, but for many people including myself, this all digital media concept is already a reality.

Every morning, I wake up and turn on the TV (delivered via an IP network), eat breakfast, get dressed and check some news on my PDA. After that it's off to the office where a flurry of digital media is accessed via the desktop. I can browse any newspaper online, read RSS feeds from hundreds of different websites, and even watch a streaming feed of CNBC.

The fact of the matter is I already get every piece of news and media digitally, I can't even fold a newspaper very well.

I know there are many out there that don't realize this, but reality is that technology advances exponentially and in the past 5 years the proliferation of the mobile web and streaming media has been enormous. With wireless networks beefing up and PDA's, smartphones, and UMPC's getting faster and more accessible to the everyday user, this all digital future will become a reality before we know it.