BearTel offers affordable network design and support for small and medium size businesses. From adding a wireless computer to your existing network infrastructure to building an advanced, redundant, integrated network with unified communications, BearTel has an answer for your situation.

We have certified network specialists to build and support your data and telephony network. We specialize in routing and switching and voice-over-IP software PBX solutions for small businesses with under 10 users, all the way to medium sized call centers with up to 100 users or more.

Local Area Network (LAN)

A LAN is the most basic form of networking and involves linking a series of computers to each other or to a server. A LAN contains both hardware and software. The network hardware provides the physical connections between PCs. The network software provides the communications intelligence that lets desktop applications see other users on the network.

Wide Area Network (WAN)

A wide area network (WAN) is two or more LANs connected together utilizing carrier services such as PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network), ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network), Frame Relay, ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) or other high speed service. WAN networks can span the distance between buildings, cities and even countries.

A business with multiple locations can share resources between locations and utilizing voice over IP (VOIP) may even save thousands of dollars on inter-company phone calls.

Broadband connections bring an even more affordable way for small businesses to implement a wide area network. Through the use of the internet and a site-to-site VPN a small business can build a secure tunnel between two locations. The tunnel contains all the information necessary for gateway A to negotiate a secure and encrypted communication stream with gateway B. The gateways contain this information so that it does not have to be loaded onto every computer connected to the gateways.