Portland, Ore. – March 21, 2017 – Pacific Star Communications, Inc. (dba PacStar) today announced that it has been honored as Federal Partner of the Year at the 2017 Aruba Americas Partner Summit, held in Nashville, Tennessee, February 27-March 1, 2017. The annual Top Channel Partner awards recognize the achievements of the leading Americas channel partners for Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, in the areas of sales, expertise in delivering Aruba solutions, and commitment to customer service.
PacStar was recognized for on-time, on-budget design, installation and configuration of Aruba-based Wi-Fi LAN infrastructure across variety of U.S. Department of Defense installations in the last year. Key to this success was the Company’s prior experience and in-depth expertise in meeting DoD requirements, and its success in working with DoD procurements for U.S. and overseas bases.
“PacStar’s longstanding partnership with Aruba resulted in successful deployment of secure Wi-Fi in a large number U.S. Department of Defense installations in 2016. We look forward to substantial growth in 2017 as our deeply satisfied customers continue to demand upgrades and deployments in existing and new facilities”, said Josh Furrer, director of enterprise IT solutions for PacStar.
Additionally, PacStar and Aruba’s partnership extends to the tactical and expeditionary programs of the US. DoD. “Our developmental partnership is delivering Aruba technology in PacStar designed, small form factor, rugged equipment suitable for use in austere environments,” stated Peggy Miller, chief executive officer of PacStar. “This is bringing the benefits of Aruba technology to the Warfighter both at home and abroad for more effective and secure tactical communications.”
“Aruba’s long-standing philosophy of ‘Customer First-Customer Last’ would not be possible without our partners, who are quite simply the best in the business,” said Jim Harold, vice president of North America channels for Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. “As organizations grapple with the convergence of mobile, cloud and the IoT, they need not just access to industry-leading intelligent edge solutions, but also expertise in how to deploy these products to solve real-world challenges. We congratulate PacStar for being named a 2017 Top Channel Partner, and thank them for the world-class service they provide to customers.”
About PacStar
Pacific Star Communications, Inc. (PacStar) is a leading technology-based systems integrator that delivers advanced, reliable and interoperable tactical and enterprise communications systems to the military, federal, state and local government agencies, as well as emergency responders. The company’s patented IQ-Core Software and hardware technology and integration/installation services provide secure, command, control and communications systems – particularly in remote or infrastructure starved areas. In addition, PacStar’s unified and tactical network communications systems are ideally suited for commercial sector organizations with mission-critical, complex communications requirements.
John Wranovics
Director of Public Relations
John Wranovics has over thirty years of experience in managing media relations and the promotion of high technology products. He has been with Curtiss-Wright since 2003. He has a degree in English Literature from the University of California, Berkeley.