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History

Our History

We’ve spent over a decade building up to the company we are today. Here are some of our major growth milestones.
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C1 History

We’ve spent over a decade building up to the company we are today. Here are some of our major growth milestones.
November 2023
C1-History

Global Innovation & Capability Center

C1 unveils its Global Innovation and Capability Center in Hyderabad, supporting the company’s continued growth and expanded capabilities.

December 2021
Integration Partners

Integration Partners

With the addition of Integration Partners, an award-winning team that designs and implements collaboration and digital infrastructure solutions, C1 expands its presence in New England and the Midwest.

Prime TSR

Prime TSR

With the addition of Prime TSR, a leading modernization and cloud solutions consultancy, C1 enhances its ability to deliver innovative solutions that solve complex IT business challenges by expanding its customer modernization capabilities in the cloud.

November 2021
WrightCore

WrightCore

With the addition of WrightCore, an industry-leading technology solution provider, C1 strengthens its position as a leader in supporting customers on their cloud modernization journeys by expanding its cloud, managed, and professional services capabilities.

June 2021
NuAge Experts

NuAge Experts

With the addition of NuAge Experts, a premier Salesforce services provider, C1 increases its ability to accelerate customers' business and support the modernization of their total customer experience.

March 2021
AAA Network Solutions

AAA Network Solutions Inc.

With the addition of AAA Network Solutions Inc., a premier public sector service provider, C1 further solidifies its position as a progressive solutions leader and expands its capabilities to support education customers.

August 2020
Altivon

Altivon

With the addition of Altivon, a premier contact center solutions provider, C1 further solidifies its position as a leading provider of collaboration and IT-enabled solutions in the market today.

January 2019
Venture Technologies

Venture Technologies

With the addition of Venture Technologies, C1 expands its southern and western presence and advances its leadership position as a single-source provider of collaboration cloud offers, services, and support.

October 2018
Advantel

Advantel Networks

With the addition of Advantel Networks, C1 gains the strategic resources to elevate our role as a leading provider of multivendor collaboration technologies, support, and services. It also expands our Western presence.

March 2018
Arrow Systems Integration

Arrow Systems Integration

This acquisition enables C1 to expand its Avaya solutions, strengthen its services offerings, and increase its national presence.

December 2017
AOS

AOS

With the acquisition of Alexander Open Systems (AOS) we extend C1’s Midwest footprint and broadens our portfolio of collaboration services and solutions capabilities

September 2017
RGTS

RGTS

We acquire Rockefeller Group Technology Solutions (RGTS). This acquisition enables C1 to increase our presence in the northeastern United States and advance our leadership position as a single-source provider of collaboration cloud offerings, services and support.

August 2017
SPS

SPS

SPS joins C1 and solidifies our position in the top tier of collaboration solution providers. SPS broadens our portfolio with a new video conferencing solution and strengthens our Managed Services, Cisco and Microsoft businesses with expanded solutions backed by decades of experience and certified expertise.

July 2017
Annese

Annese

We acquire Annese & Associates, further growing our presence in the Northeast and continuing to expand our Cisco footprint and certifications. This also increases our capabilities in providing consulting, design, installation, maintenance, and cloud and managed services to Education, Government, Healthcare, Commercial, and Financial institutions.

December 2015
SIGMAnet

SIGMAnet

With the acquisition of SIGMAnet, we increased our reach in the western United States, as well as the scale of our Cisco solutions. We also expanded our portfolio with complimentary offers from VMware, Dell, HP, IBM, Microsoft and EMC; strengthened our industry solutions for higher education; and bolstered our ability to remotely support customers through their network operations center.

October 2015
C1

Integration of Acquisitions

C1 integrates all the acquired companies into a single company to deliver a seamless experience for our customers.

May 2015
Mountain States Networking

Mountain States Networking

At the same time as our Sunturn acquisition, we also acquire Mountain States Networking – a Cisco Gold Certified Partner and a leading network solutions provider in the West.

Sunturn

Sunturn

We acquire Sunturn, an Avaya Platinum Partner that designs and delivers unified communications, collaboration and contact center solutions to mid-market business. The move deepens our mid-market reach and presence in the West and South.

February 2015
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Launch Cloud Solution

We launch a fully managed private cloud solution that’s fully delivered, hosted, managed and financed by C1.

September 2014
Spanlink

Spanlink

With the acquisition of Spanlink, we add a full suite of Cisco solutions and services. Spanlink also brings the highest certifications in Cisco collaboration architectures and a comprehensive managed services offering.

January 2014
NACR

Launch Advanced Services Delivery Practice

NACR launches an Advanced Services Delivery Practice for the Contact Center. This new practice provides advanced contact center services, cloud and self-service solutions and integration expertise from across C1.

December 2013
iTrus

iTrus

We expand expertise in the healthcare vertical with the acquisition of iTrus, a company focused on design, implementation, applications and infrastructure availability.

October 2013
NACR

Launch Microsoft Lync Support

NACR launches managed maintenance and monitoring support for Microsoft Lync voice and unified communications solutions.

December 2012
G3 Technologies

G3 Technologies

With the acquisition of G3 Technologies, we strengthen our capabilities to design, develop, integrate and manage voice and data solutions. G3 brings broad capabilities across multiple providers.

January 2012
SimpliCTI

SimpliCTI

By acquiring SimpliCTI we added unified communications systems integration as well as contact center customer applications development. SimpliCTI also gave us the opportunity to offer our clients high value-added consulting services for contact center customer interactions.

April 2011
NorthPark Group

NorthPark Group

We expand our high-end IT consulting and professional services capabilities in acquiring NorthPark Group. NorthPark also brings expertise with global infrastructure deployments for customers in financial services.

February 2011
NACR

NACR Expands Capabilities

NACR expands its app development capabilities in beginning to develop custom apps using the Avaya Agile Communication Environment (ACE) Foundation Toolkit.

December 2010
NACR

Voice Operations Merger

We realign our voice and data businesses – bringing together our voice operations under NACR and our data operations under S1 – to be more sharply focused and effective.

December 2009
Empire-Technologies

Empire Technologies

In just one month we increase our presence in the Northeast and add a robust maintenance service base, multi-vendor Managed Services and Support centers and proprietary workflow tools as well as a telemarketing center with the purchase of Empire Technologies.

December 2006
S1

S1 IT Solutions

In buying S1 IT Solutions, we add expertise in IBM solutions and expand our presence in the Northwest.

January 2006
Combest

Combest

With the acquisition of Combest, we add in-house maintenance and managed services. We also significantly expand our presence in Georgia, Florida and Pennsylvania.

C1’s Commitment to Diversity + Inclusion

We believe that diversity of thought, perspective, and background are key ingredients to personal fulfillment and business success. At C1, we are committed to building a workforce that represents the world in which we live, and understand that only then will we reach our highest level of achievement as an organization.