ZT Technology Solutions was founded in 2010 to provide government, telecommunications, and enterprise customers with technology solutions to address their product and service life cycle needs, especially for legacy products. ZT‘s fundament belief is that legacy products will remain in the telecom network indefinitely.
ZT’s founders, Mike Dazio and John Tsimaras, started this company with one specific mission: Maintain, enhance and support many of the legacy products that are currently in the Public Switched Telephone Network. Mr. Dazio and Mr. Tsimaras bring their vast experience and expertise to this company. Mr. Dazio served as a Product Manager at AT&T/Western Electric/Lucent Technologies for over 25 years. Per Mr. Dazio, the goal of a product manager is to extend the life of legacy products and assist customers to migrate eventually to newer technologies. Mr. Tsimaras headed hardware development groups at AT&T/Western Electric/Lucent Technologies and Datatek Applications for nearly 30 years. One product on which they both worked was a legacy data networking product called Datakit VCS. It was initially deployed in the mid 1980’s. To this day the telephone companies, both foreign and domestic, still have over one billion dollars of this product in use in their networks. Despite the rise of newer technologies, like IP, LTE, there still is a need to support async, X.25 etc. in the circuit-switched world. Mr. Dazio understood this and helped create a company called Datatek Applications in 1998 simply to continue to enhance and support the Datakit VCS product line. Today that company is still providing support.
John Tsimaras and Mike Dazio created ZT Technology Solutions to expand this capability to other legacy products. This new company supports many other legacy products. Some of these, but not all, are:
♦ Legacy Data (Lucent, Datatek, Applied Innovation, Ericsson (formerly RedBack/Entrisphere/Marconi-Fore))
♦ Legacy Switching (Ribbon Communications (formerly Nortel) DMSTM, Alcatel-Lucent (formerly AT&T) 5ESS™)
♦ Voice Mail Systems (Ribbon Communications (formerly uReach), SS8, Comverse)
♦ Legacy Transmission (Sycamore (formerly Eastern Research), CTDI (formerly Zhone))
♦ Optical (Ciena, Sycamore)
The key components of extending the life of any legacy product are (a) technical talent, (b) repair capability, and (c) access to spares. ZT has the talent necessary to provide the technical support and work with repair houses and secondary parts suppliers to address the repairs and spares issues. ZT prides itself in being very proactive in its support model and its ability to work with customers to provide a consolidation and migration strategy to newer and more advanced technologies.
ZT’s value proposition is to continue the support of these legacy products by providing advanced technical services and repair/replace options for defective and obsolete equipment. ZT’s goal is to extend the life of the legacy equipment by reducing the total cost of ownership over the life cycle of the product.
ZT offers an alternative to current OEM’s that want to maximize product and service revenues of legacy products while service providers are looking for ways to minimize all costs, both for technical support and repair. ZT’s employees are experienced engineers who completely understand the technology and take pride in providing ZT’s customers with exceptional support. ZT employees will go the extra step in proactively supporting products and customers.
ZT’s expertise is primarily in legacy Data Networking, Switching and Voice Messaging Platforms. However, ZT has been extremely successful in providing technical support for optical and transmission legacy products as well.
ZT Technology Solutions is headquartered in Red Bank, New Jersey and has employees working from support centers located throughout the United States.
ZT Technology Solutions is an independent company and has no affiliation with Applied Innovation, Ericsson, Ribbon Communications, SS8, Comverse, Sycamore Networks, CTDI, or Ciena.
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