Affant welcomes Leslie Van Excel to our team. As one of the newest members of our complex engineering operation, Les brings over 7 years of experience in system administration and programming. Within this time, he has worked for an environmental laboratory, a domain name registrar, and an enterprise web based time and accounting software company. He is especially skilled in Microsoft and Linux based operating systems. We are very excited to have him on board as our System Administrator and Programmer.

Currently all of Affant documentations, tickets, projects, and quotes exist in-house on different systems. We are unifying these documents into something called the Affant Portal, and over the next year, we are publishing it for our clients’ use. This does not come at the expense of a previous way of contacting us, but is an addition to our current method. In one year, our plan is to have all maintenance customer interactions available through a single logon web page, a Comprehensive Customer Communication if you will.

For the past 6 months, our Affant Engineers have been evaluating various IP Telephony (VOIP) readiness assessment and performance management solutions. After extensive evaluation of the leading market solutions, Affant chose NetAlly Lifecycle Manager from Viola Networks for its rich capabilities in pre-deployment network assessment and on-going real-time monitoring coupled with its ability to remotely assess customer networks from the company's Network Operations Center.