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Independent technology advisor · owner-led since 2003

We’re not an MSP. We’re the advisors who pick the right technology, read the contract, and stay in the seat when it breaks.

Buckeye Telecom helps multi-location businesses modernize legacy systems — aging MPLS, on-prem phone systems, dated security — then sources and manages the right replacements across every location. Vendor-neutral, owner-led, and we sit on your side of the table: you pay us nothing directly; the carriers do.

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Multi-location, U.S. & global No advisory fees The owner’s team answers
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Hi — ask Buckeye anything. New sites, a renewal, a cutover, a security gap? Tell us what you're working on and we'll scope it. Our team builds the plan from there.
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500+
Clients served
23 yrs
Owner-led, same team
100+
Carriers & vendors
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Outside investors
The procurement question

“Will this advisor still be here in five years?”

Every mid-market procurement team asks it — and they should. The technology-advisor space is consolidating fast. Our answer is genuinely rare, and easy to verify.

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Outside investors

No PE firm holds equity. No venture capital. No silent partners. We’re not raising, and we’re not for sale.

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Outside debt

No bank loans, no revolving credit, no debt service to feed. Nothing in our capital stack pressures us to over-promise or up-sell your account.

23

Years, same owner

Jonathan Eubanks founded Buckeye in 2003 and still runs it. The owner you sign with today is the owner you work with in 2030 — with a written succession plan documented.

What this means for your account
  • No quarterly growth targets pushing us to up-sell what you don’t need.
  • No PE-investor margin extraction flowing into your pricing each year.
  • No exit clock counting down to a sale that reassigns your account to a new advisor.
  • No debt service forcing us to take deals we should walk away from.
  • The advisor who reads your contract this year is the same one who reads your renewal in 2028.

The carrier-residual model only pays out if clients stay. That’s the alignment built into how Buckeye is structured — our income depends on doing right by you for the long run, not on extracting more this quarter.

What modernizing delivers

Adopt newer technology. The savings follow.

54%

WAN costs cut

An Ohio manufacturer moved from legacy MPLS to managed SD-WAN across all sites.

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$50,400

Saved per year

A Columbus law group consolidated voice and telecom expense into one managed contract.

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Modern

Legacy systems retired

Aging phone systems, MPLS, and point tools replaced with cloud platforms built for how you actually work now.

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The honest part

Three ways to buy your technology.

Two of them have a built-in conflict. Ours doesn't — and we publish exactly how we're paid.

An IT company

Sells you what they own. They have a team and tools already on payroll — so those tools get recommended whether or not they fit.

Biased by inventory

A carrier rep

Sells one company's products. They can only quote their own network, so "the best option" is always their option.

Biased by brand
How we work

Buckeye Telecom

We don't sell our own products. We compare 100+ carriers and platforms and place whatever genuinely fits. The carrier pays us a residual when you sign — so our advice costs you nothing.

Aligned with you
Paid the same regardlessThe residual is the same whether you choose Carrier A or B — so we have no reason to steer you.
No spiffs, no quotasWe take no one-time bonuses and hold no master-agent quotas with any carrier.
You own every contractAgreements are in your name. Take them anywhere — or walk away — anytime.
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What we help you choose & manage

We don't carry products. We help you pick the right ones.

Most multi-location businesses run on a patchwork of aging systems and 8–15 vendors. We help you select newer technology, source it from the right providers, and manage it all as one — so it works better and costs less.

Voice & UCaaS

We help you choose and source hosted phones, Teams calling, and contact center — then manage the provider so you don't have to.

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Connectivity & SD-WAN

We design the right mix and source it from 100+ carriers per address — then manage the circuits and outage escalations for you.

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Security & SOC

We help you select 24/7 monitoring, EDR, and the controls your auditors want — and hold the providers delivering them accountable.

Explore security

Managed & Co-Managed IT

We help you choose the right managed or co-managed IT provider — or reinforce your internal team — and keep them accountable to you.

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vCIO Strategy

An independent roadmap and budget built around your goals — not a product line. Reviewed with you every quarter.

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Modernize Legacy Systems

Replace aging phone systems, MPLS, and tools with modern platforms that do more — and typically pay for themselves within 90 days.

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Ask Buckeye, a real team answers

A full team — with the owner in every sale.

Ask Buckeye and you reach a real team of advisors, engineers, and project managers — not a solo operator. And Jonathan, our owner, stays involved in every sale, from the first conversation through every renewal.

Jonathan Eubanks, FounderJE
Jonathan Eubanks
Founder · involved in every sale
The bench behind every engagement

You work directly with the owner — backed by the people and functions that get the work done.

Network Engineering
Voice, SD-WAN & cutovers
Project Management
Multi-site rollouts
Security & SOC Oversight
Monitoring & response
Expense & Contracts
Audits & renewals
Live right now
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New fiber connections signed
100
Hosted phone seats cut over
210
Endpoints secured
<1 hr
Avg. owner reply

This month: two MPLS-to-SD-WAN migrations, a hosted-voice cutover for a multi-site retailer, and an MFA rollout across a healthcare group.

Wherever you operate

Built for multi-location business — across the country and around the world.

Rooted in Columbus, Ohio, we help businesses choose, source, and manage voice, network, and security across locations in the U.S. and internationally. One advisor, one point of accountability, one bill — no matter how many sites or time zones you run.

U.S. + Global
Multi-site coverage
100+
Carrier relationships
1
Bill, dashboard & contact
HeadquartersColumbus, OH
CoverageU.S. & international
Site typesHQ, branch, remote
Monitoring24/7/365
From a single Ohio office to a 40-location footprint spanning borders — the model is the same: we own the complexity so your team doesn't.
Carriers & platforms

We source and manage across 100+ providers.

Vendor-neutral means we compare them all and place whatever genuinely fits each address — then manage it for you. A sample of who we work across:

Spectrum BusinessAT&TLumenVerizon BusinessComcast BusinessFrontierAltafiberWindstreamCox BusinessRegional fiber & fixed-wirelessRingCentral8×8NextivaWebexZoom PhoneMicrosoft Teams Phone

…and 100+ more. We’re not tied to any of them — which is exactly why our recommendation is yours, not theirs.

Proof

Real Ohio clients. Real results.

Manufacturing
54%

WAN costs cut with SD-WAN

Legacy MPLS replaced across every plant and office, with better uptime.

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Legal
$50,400

Saved per year on communications

A Columbus law group consolidated voice and telecom expense management.

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Healthcare
HIPAA

Compliance after a failed audit

A Midwest healthcare group rebuilt to a passing security and compliance posture.

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In their words

What clients say.

Anonymized at our clients’ request — the words are theirs.

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We were running 12 sites on aging MPLS that went down more than anyone wanted to admit. Buckeye moved us to SD-WAN and the stability was immediate — and it cost us less, not more. They ran the whole cutover.

Operations Director
Multi-location manufacturer · Ohio & Indiana
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We failed a security audit and didn’t know where to start. Buckeye walked us through MFA, encryption, and monitoring without the fear-mongering, and we passed the re-audit. I’m no longer lying awake about a breach.

Practice Administrator
Regional healthcare group · Central Ohio
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Our phone system was a decade behind and we had three carrier bills nobody understood. Buckeye modernized all of it onto one platform, kept our numbers, and gave us one bill. Calls just work now, from anywhere.

Managing Partner
Columbus law firm
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What I value is that Jonathan is actually in it — not a rep who vanishes after the sale. They’ve helped us adopt newer tools at the right pace, kept us secure, and there’s one person accountable across every location.

CFO
Multi-location financial services firm · Ohio
What happens when you reach out

Three steps. No pressure.

No long sales cycle and no obligation — here’s exactly how an engagement starts.

1

A 30-minute call

Tell us what you run today and what’s prompting the change — new sites, a renewal, an outage, a failed audit. No prep required, and the owner is on the call.

2

We audit your stack & bills

We benchmark your contracts, circuits, and invoices against the market and flag what’s overpriced, redundant, or leaving you exposed — in plain English.

3

You get an independent plan

Clear recommendations you own — every contract in your name. Move at your pace, take it anywhere, or walk away. No advisory fee, ever.

We work under NDA on request — your network details and invoices stay yours, and we never share them.

Who we serve

Depth in the industries that can't go down.

Healthcare Manufacturing Legal Financial Services Retail Distribution & Logistics Construction & Trades Professional Services Nonprofit & Faith
Insights

Written by us. Not by vendors.

Networking

SD-WAN vs. MPLS: what multi-location businesses need to know in 2026

7 min read
Cost control

7 ways businesses are overpaying for telecom right now

6 min read
Security

Zero trust security: what it is and why you need it

6 min read
All insights
Questions buyers ask

Straight answers.

The carriers and providers pay us a residual when you sign — the same way you'd pay them anyway. Our advice and management cost you nothing directly. No consulting fees, no carrier spiffs, no exclusive deals. We publish the full disclosure on our How We Get Paid page.

A real team. Ask Buckeye and you reach advisors, sourcing specialists, and project managers — with Jonathan, our owner, involved in every sale. Senior judgment, company depth.

No — we're an independent advisor. We help you choose and source the right technology from the right providers and manage it on your behalf. Because we don't carry our own products, our advice isn't tied to anything we need to sell.

No. We're headquartered in Columbus, but we design and manage technology for multi-location businesses across the United States and internationally. One accountable team, wherever your sites are.

Yes. Co-managed IT lets us reinforce your internal team or existing MSP — typically on connectivity, voice, and security — without replacing what already works.

See what newer technology could do for your business.

No advisory fees, no obligation — and the owner is involved in every engagement.

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