MetTel Wins ChannelVision Visionary Spotlight Award for POTS Transformation — Powered by DataRemote

We’re proud to congratulate our partner MetTel, whose POTS Transformation solution — powered by DataRemote’s POTS IN A BOX® technology — has been named a 2026 Visionary Spotlight Award winner in ChannelVision’s Overall Excellence: Digital Transformation category. The recognition highlights MetTel’s continued commitment to helping enterprises and government agencies modernize legacy voice infrastructure as copper networks are rapidly retired nationwide.

What the award recognizes

MetTel’s POTS Transformation solution was honored for its market-leading approach to replacing legacy copper landlines with resilient, future-proof digital connectivity. By combining DataRemote’s POTS IN A BOX® technology with MetTel’s fully managed, multi-carrier network and 24/7 monitoring, the solution converts circuit-switched phone signals to networked, multi-path IP connectivity — without requiring customers to replace existing equipment.

It supports a broad range of POTS-dependent devices, including fire alarm panels, elevator lines, fax machines, and E-911 systems, and is recognized as a Managed Facilities-based Voice Network (MFVN) by both the NYC Fire Department and CAL FIRE.

Proven at scale

MetTel’s solution is deployed across:

Organization	Scale
U.S. Postal Service	20,000+ locations
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs	1,500+ sites
Extra Space Storage	2,300+ locations

The solution has also been widely adopted by enterprise clients across the healthcare, fitness, retail, security, and waste management industries.

A growing list of recognition

The ChannelVision VSA is the latest in a string of industry honors for MetTel’s POTS Transformation solution, which has also earned:

• The USPS Supplier Excellence Award
• The 2026 Gold American Business Award for Best Technical Support Strategy and Implementation
• The 2026 Internet Telephony Product of the Year
• The Fast Mode’s 2025 Operational Excellence Leader designation

MetTel VP Max Silber also received the 2025 AAMI Best Commentary Award for his piece on the risks aging copper lines pose to hospital patient safety.

“We are extremely honored to receive ChannelVision’s 2026 Visionary Spotlight Award for Overall Excellence in Digital Transformation. It’s a really great feeling to have the Channel recognize the tremendous effort we have put into creating the best and most reliable, scalable, and future-ready POTS replacement solution available in the market today. As copper networks continue to retire across the country, we want channel partners to know that they can trust us with their clients that depend on mission-critical connectivity.”

— Marshall Aronow, CEO, MetTel

DataRemote’s role: POTS IN A BOX®

DataRemote’s POTS IN A BOX® portfolio is the hardware layer that makes MetTel’s POTS Transformation possible — preserving the analog behaviors (voice, fax, DTMF, alarm signaling, E-911) that critical equipment depends on while carrying the traffic over managed cellular and IP. The 90X1 (5G) and 90X2 (LTE) are the current appliances behind deployments like these.

For more on this partnership, see MetTel’s POTS Transformation solution with the 90X1 and DataRemote’s role in MetTel’s $54M VA contract.

About MetTel

A leading provider of digital transformation and communications solutions for enterprise and government clients, MetTel has been recognized as a Leader or Visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Managed Network Services for the last six consecutive years. Learn more at mettel.net.

Plan your POTS migration with DataRemote

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