The MPLS VPN is the foundation for the next step of convergence - migrating voice traffic to the data network, rapidly speeding up the ROI time, often to full payback within a year. That IP VPNs can lower operational costs - along a demonstrable...
It’s fair to say that a lot of our biggest deployments have been in the managed environment," says Cisco’s Stone. However, couple added functionality with the traditional ROI argument and new developments such as managed IP telephony services, and...
Productivity gains don't exist if cost savings are not achieved [first]," she adds. And it's another point for future ROI planning. However, this still leaves them mystified by, on the face of it, a sensible approach by vendors to pitch to the...
It is much easier to calculate metrics in the real-time space, such as conferencing, because tangible savings can be computed simply from the amount of travelling costs saved, for example. While ROI can be achieved from project-based collaboration...
But for widespread fibre deployments, I've yet to see a business case that pays for the deployment. But on the copper-replacement strategy, the incremental revenues for massive investment are not immediately apparent.
For example, Microsoft moved quickly to ensure that thin client deployments of a Windows desktop involved payment of much the same software licence fees as traditional desktop implementation. The danger is that the service revenues the software...
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