Managed networking and unified communications for mid-market enterprises
NETHINKS operates a vertical stack spanning network infrastructure, managed security, and proprietary VoIP—anchored by Fortinet, Cisco, Juniper, and their in-house telephony platform heinrich. The hiring mix (ops-heavy with targeted security and engineering roles) and pain-point focus on automation and rollout scaling reveal an ops-led business scaling its managed-service delivery model; the tech-stack emphasis on Ansible, Docker, and NETCONF signals engineering maturity in infrastructure-as-code and network automation.
NETHINKS is a managed service provider founded in 1996 and based in Fulda, Germany, serving mid-market companies that need integrated networking, security, and communications. The company operates across six service lines: managed site-to-site networking (MPLS, SD-WAN, VPN), Internet access, data center connectivity, managed cybersecurity (Fortinet-based), and heinrich—a proprietary SaaS telephony platform. Delivery is built on Cisco, Juniper, and Fortinet infrastructure; internal operations leverage Linux, Ansible, Docker, and open-source network monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenNMS). Sales and service delivery are concentrated in Germany.
Fortinet, Cisco (IOS-XE, SD-WAN), Juniper Networks, and Juniper for routing/switching. Infrastructure automation runs on Ansible and Docker; monitoring via Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenNMS. Core services integrate SIP, LDAP, and KVM hypervisor.
heinrich—a cloud-based VoIP telephony platform delivered as a SaaS solution. It is a core differentiation in their unified communications offering to enterprises.
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