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The Business Case for Network Optimization Over Bandwidth Upgrades

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Overview Current Analysis during the fall of 2001 conducted detailed financial analysis research with Expand Networks' customers; documenting the return on investment they are experiencing. The results were startling. All the companies generated annualized after tax rates of return of 40% or more with paybacks in less than one year. Benefits took the form of telecommunications cost savings as well as business productivity enhancements. These returns are above average for IT investments, and all the companies surveyed are planning to increase their use of Expand solutions in the next 12 months.

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Publisher	Current Analysis	File Format	PDF
Date Published	October 2001
Format	White Papers
Topics	Bandwidth Issues, ROI - TCO

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Channel:
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