ePlus acquires CCI Systems’ Network Solutions Group
ePlus inc announced that it has acquired certain assets of the Network Solutions Group (NSG), a business unit of CCI Systems, Inc. (CCI). NSG is a Michigan-based provider of networking services and solutions focused in the broadband Service Provider end-market. This acquisition will help drive additional growth with enhanced engineering, sales, and services delivery capabilities specific to the industry. Service providers are included in ePlus’ telecom, media, and entertainment end-market category.
“ePlus has a long track record in the Service Provider space. This acquisition will further expand our national presence in this important end-market, and help capture opportunities resulting from the federal government’s broadband funding initiatives,” says Mark Marron, CEO and president, ePlus inc. “NSG has an excellent reputation in the market, a very capable workforce, and a solid customer base that will benefit from ePlus’ broadened portfolio of offerings. We welcome our new NSG employees to the ePlus family and look forward to serving our hundreds of new customers.”
“Our team is very excited to join ePlus,” states Mac Plymale, ePlus’ new VP of sales in its service provider group. “Our Cisco Master Service Provider Technology Architect Specialisation, one of only six nationwide, combined with ePlus’ focus on customer experience, security, collaboration, and a broader portfolio of solutions, will create synergies to address critical gaps in the service provider space and capture spend.”
“We are pleased that NSG has joined ePlus. For decades, broadband Service Providers have relied on CCI’s Network Solutions Group for technical solutions that optimise their carrier-grade critical infrastructure. This is a great outcome for employees and customers of the group, who will benefit from the expertise, strategy, and customer relations applied to ePlus’ wider array of offerings,” says John Jamar, CEO & president of CCI. “We are proud of what NSG has built over the past 20 years and look forward to a continuing alliance between CCI and ePlus, mutually serving our customers with complementary solutions.”
The acquisition of certain assets and liabilities of CCI Systems, Inc. closed on April 30, 2023. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed and are not expected to have a material impact on ePlus’ fiscal year 2024 results.
Comment on this article below or via Twitter @IoTGN