Catalyst Replay - Cost-Effective Telecom: Potential Savings Areas

Cost-Effective Telecom: Potential Savings Areas

In these challenging economic times, everyone is looking for ways to save money, improve efficiency, and reduce wasteful spending. This particularly applies to telecommunications, as it often represents the largest recurring IT expense outside of employee salaries; small changes to network and telecom services may therefore have a large potential cost impact. This session will suggest areas where enterprise network managers should examine their use of telecom-related services -- with the goal of cost-avoidance or savings while still meeting enterprise business requirements.

Issues this Burton Group POV will address include:

WAN performance optimization
Video/audioconferencing
Mobile phone substitution for desktop phones
Greater bandwidth oversubscription with QoS
Dynamic bandwidth provisioning
Carrier co-location
Internet substitution/getting customers to pay for network access
An employee bring your own device strategy
Reducing network traffic backhaul

Duration: 41mins

Presenters:
David Passmore