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WEBINAR: Stop Overpaying for Network Services in 2012
Wednesday June 6, 2012 1:00 PM CT (2:00 PM ET)
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Over the past decade, network services spend has become a top business expense and cause for concern.
Network services (including voice, data, internet, wireless, local, access, international and managed services), typically account for three to six percent of overhead and have a significant impact on your business operations.
While network is viewed as a commodity, it's a high value commodity with thousands of different rate elements. With network services pricing continuing to decline year over year, have you considered your sourcing and benchmarking strategy to ensure you are not currently overpaying?
Attendees of this eSeminar will learn how to:
- Leverage price trends for contracts set to expire within the next 12-18 months
- Take advantage of integrating wireline and wireless services together
- Get market competitive terms from their carriers
- Determine whether your users are on the optimal wireless plan
- Review the pros and cons of consolidating contracts and vendors
- Determine what route to take with network convergence
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From The Expert Corner
May 29, 2012
Scaling the IP Core Network to 100G and Beyond with the Alcatel-Lucent 7950 XRS
By Beecher Tuttle, TMCnet Contributor
The proliferation of bandwidth-hungry devices, along with the ever-increasing demand for mobile video and cloud applications, has put a great deal of pressure on the core networks of today's service providers. They need to find ways to take advantage of traffic growth rather than viewing it as an obstacle to sustained profitability.
The clear answer to overcoming the challenges associated with unabated Web traffic growth is to expand the capacity requirements of the Internet backbone and peering points. This requires making the move to 100Gb/s (Gigabits per second or 100G).
In addition, service providers need to respond to elevating traffic levels in the metro IP core network, which needs to scale alongside the Internet backbone while also providing the flexibility to support a wide range of routing and switching functions, as well as IP and Ethernet infrastructure services... Read More
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