February 2017 | Business View Magazine

66 67 products from over 1,500 suppliers, from its dis- tribution centers in Allentown, PA, Grand Prai- rie, TX, New Century, KS, Ontario, CA, Portland, OR, Suwanee, GA, and Warsaw, IN. BlueStream Professional Services provides planning, im- plementation, engineering, installation, project management, deployment, and maintenance support from its 35 engineering and integration centers located strategically across the country. In all, KGP has over 3,000 employees. According to Glass, KGP Companies has five business units contained within the KGP Lo- gistics and BlueStream brands. BlueStream, the network services solutions organization, concentrates on both wireline communications and wireless networks: the legacy wireline or KGP Companies longstanding copper network; and the newer RAN, or radio access network, which connects devices such as mobile phones to communica- tion towers. “We are enhancing legacy networks structurally through the addition of fiber optic cable as well as enabling the software-defined layer of the network in data centers and central offices,” he explains. “On the access network, or mobility side, we have been serving network operators to transform evolving 3rd genera- tion networks to the recent 4G LTE network, and we will continue to be relevant in Project Management, Site Acquisition, Civil Design, and Construction/Installation as the 5G needs develop. In addition to network expansion and enhancements, we are also working to densify