Systems integrator Adesta is making a bigger impression

infrastructure. The system should be completed in January 2008. It will provide enhanced educational services, in the process bridging the digital divide between poorer and richer areas in the district. Among the services enabled by the network are distance learning, video conferencing, high-speed Internet access, telephone voice services, and data services. “We are confident our relationship with Adesta will propel our district forward through the utilization of their experience,” said Terry Bishop, superintendent of Schools. “The network will definitely provide the schools and communities of District 11 with many new advantages including distance learning and high-speed capabilities. This is an exciting new partnership. We envision a very bright future for our students.”

This is not the only work Adesta has done for educational institutions. The company has recently completed the Five Colleges Fiber-Optic Network. The $3.6 million network connects Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts Amherst into a primary carrier hotel in Springfield, Massachusetts. The five institutions, which have been collaborating in several areas since 1965 (students in one school can take classes for credit in the other schools), have joined forces to develop this network which increases their data network capacity, add redundant links to handle network outages, and reduces their local circuit charges for data communications services. The 53-mile-long network offers the schools almost limitless bandwidth, and, as a bonus, also offers opportunities for rural-area communities the network touches upon.

In all, the company says it has deployed more than two million fiber miles in more than 140 metropolitan areas and completed more than 800 electronic security systems in the United States, Europe, Asia, Central America, and the Middle East. Bob Sommerfeld, president of Adesta, told us that the company is technology- and brand-agnostic: As an integrator, it procures the technology appropriate for the project on hand, buying it from the company which is most suitable to meet the project’s requirements. The company’s approach and record have not gone unnoticed. In July, the company was included in an annual ranking of the nation’s Top 100 security systems integrators, sponsored by Security Distributing & Marketing (SDM) Magazine. SDM Magazine publishes the list of top security companies once a year. The report ranks by revenue the largest firms that contract electronic security projects for commercial, industrial, institutional, government, and other nonresidential markets. Adesta has moved up in the ranking: With $46.1 million in revenue from security systems integration, it improved its 2006 rank of 20th to its 2007 ranking of 14th. The company was ranked 22nd in 2005, 42nd in 2004, and 96th in 2003. Adesta was also recognized as one of the Top 10 in largest project winners. “Our improved ranking illustrates Adesta’s commitment to providing the highest quality and service,” says Sommerfeld.