Summary
Industry Trend or Event
Corporations are increasingly outsourcing the management of their wide area networks (WANs), with many positive effects. Outsourcing network management reduces the company's need to make large up-front IT investments. In addition, Web-based applications can easily be deployed through corporate WANs. Network management functions which can be effectively outsourced include handling link redundancy, alternate carriers, fault tolerant software, fast-packing switching, digital technology, error-checking protocols, passwords, encryption methods, firewalls and broadband networking.See the full content of this document
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Outsourcing WAN management.
Outsourcing frees IT personnel to focus on company strategic/core initiatives and reduces the need to make large investments.
Network computing is changing the face of business, with 90% of worldwide bandwidth estimated in use for data networking by 2003. Organizations are embracing new applications to facilitate unprecedented levels of communication and collaboration between employees, customers, suppliers and vendors. The Internet is a burgeoning channel through which queries can b...See the full content of this document
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