Copper River IT Recognized as Juniper’s East Region Partner of the Year for Excellence in Network Innovation & Customer Service

Leading networking vendor recognizes partners for outstanding achievements, commitment, professionalism, and passion in delivering high quality solutions and services to customers

Chantilly, VA: 26 February 2014: In recognition of the highest levels of sales, customer service excellence, technology expertise and service specializations, Copper River IT has been awarded Juniper Networks East Region Partner of the Year 2013. One of only 35 Partner Awards given, Juniper Networks presented this award to Copper River IT at the annual Juniper Networks Global Partner Conference held at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas.  The Global Partner Conference brought together over 800 Juniper Networks partners world-wide.

David Helfer, Vice President of Worldwide Channels and Commercial for Juniper Networks, said, “I want to personally congratulate our esteemed partners for their relentless commitment to helping our customers build the best networks. Juniper Networks is committed to enabling the long-term success of our global partners. Their achievements demonstrate how training, support and differentiation of Juniper’s products and services can create greater business opportunity for partners and deliver value for our customers.”

Copper River has established itself as THE Solutions Provider for Government agencies as well as commercial verticals such as Service Provider, Healthcare, and Education. Copper River provides progressive, program-focused IT solutions based on expert engineering, agile execution and proven past performance.  Copper River offers a full scope of IT and network capabilities including hardware/software procurement, network engineering, systems engineering, enterprise support services, and advanced network education solutions.

In addition to these capabilities, Copper River IT offers customers a variety of purchasing benefits through the satisfaction of small business and diversity contracting goal achievement. Copper River is a Federally Recognized Alaskan Tribal owned company and was certified as an 8(a)/Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB) by the US Small Business Administration (SBA) in 2006. Copper River’s solutions are available through several state procurement contracts (VA VITA, FL Network Infrastructure, MD MEEC, TX DIR), Federal contract vehicles (GSA, NASA SEWP IV) as well as the ability to leverage the SBA 8(a) designation for sole source or set aside procurements.