How To Choose A Network Service Provider

 

Finding the right network service provider can be challenging, time-consuming, and even a little bit scary. Here's some timely advice in this article.

How To Choose A Network Service Provider

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Carriers vs. Aggregators: How To Select The Optimal Mix Of Network Transport Providers

 

Best practices for network transport (LAN/WAN/WLAN/SDWAN) call for companies to work with multiple suppliers to get competitive prices, maximize service coverage, and secure better service delivery performance. But which suppliers should an enterprise select? How do you figure out the best fit for an enterprise’s needs, and what are some of the challenges and gotchas of a multi-supplier portfolio approach?

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What Are The Features And Benefits Of SDWAN?

 Modern businesses seek flexible, scalable, agile, secure, and affordable network solutions to integrate branch offices and remote workplaces seamlessly.

Large enterprises encountering network issues with wide area networks are moving towards Software Defined Wide Area Networks to overcome the bottlenecks and deliver high performance. Managing large networks with multiple users, devices, and applications is no child’s play.

SD-WAN empowers enterprises to manage networks efficiently with centralized monitoring and management to simplify network administration across locations.

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An Essential Guide To SDWAN Myths And Facts (VIDEO)

Enterprises across the world continue to face growing challenges and uncertainties, be it due to the pandemic or the next shock to global markets. Compounding the challenges is the move to becoming more distributed than ever as enterprises pivot to hybrid workspaces, leading them to rely more on cloud services.

With connectivity as the glue and key to successful digital transformation in the next normal, security is a growing imperative and cannot be addressed independently of the network.

All enterprises will need to adopt a secure, software-defined hybrid networking approach in network architectures and invest in next-generation technologies such as SD-WAN and other virtual network services (VNS) to address their changing network and security needs to accommodate their remote workforces. The question is, therefore, not whether to enable software-defined networking and cloud-based tools, but how and where, and what’s next.

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Benefits And Challenges To Implementing SDWAN In Your Company (VIDEO)

SD-WAN is rising in popularity as a network management tool. But is it right for your business? SD-WAN has many pros as well as cons and might not be a perfect fit for all scenarios. In this video learn about the benefits and challenges to implementing SD-WAN in the enterprise.

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What Are The Current Trends For IT Infrastructure Spending? (VIDEO)

 

Listen in as Avroheim Gottheil of #AskTheCEO and Misha Rangel of IBM discuss insights on a recent IT Infrastructure spending study that was conducted by Forrester Research.

The study can be accessed here: Forrester Study One of the key findings mentioned in the report is that on-premises solutions continue to play a key role in IT Infrastructure spending decisions, with 90% of IT decision-makers agreeing that on-premises infrastructure is a critical part of their hybrid cloud strategies. Another key finding of the report is that IT decision-makers anticipate that more than half of mission-critical workloads and 47% of data-intensive workloads will be run either on-premises or in an internal private cloud within the next two years. This does not mean that organizations have stopped investing in on-premises. Misha goes into this topic in greater detail during our discussion. Another key finding is that companies that delay IT Infrastructure upgrades are opening themselves up to serious vulnerabilities.

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THE FIVE LAWS OF CYBERSECURITY (VIDEO)

An expert in cybersecurity and network infrastructure, Nick Espinosa has consulted with clients ranging from small businesses up to the Fortune 100 level. Nick is known as an industry thought leader and sought after for his advice on the future of technology and how it will impact every day businesses and consumers. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.

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How To Design A Network For "The Office" - A Case Study (VIDEO)

 This video offers a case study using the UniFi Design Center to design a complete UniFi Network and Protect infrastructure for the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company satellite office in Scranton, PA (aka "The Office").

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The CIO’s Guide To SD-WAN....Why It’s Time For A New Kind Of Network

SD-WAN is a software-based technology that dynamically routes applications and data through your WAN in a more intelligent way.

That means you can get a faster, more efficient network that can address the performance management challenges you’re facing today — and will continue to face in the future.

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Using SDWAN To Streamline Your Business IT Operations

There are no end of philosophers, gurus, and great minds who talk about the beauty of simplicity – but it’s unlikely many of them appreciated quite how important simplicity in IT is.

Whether you’re designing or fault-finding, there’s nothing worse than watching a solution spiral out of control and end up being an overly complex solution you dread coming back to.

So, with this in mind, where’s the beauty in adding another system to your network? Here, we’ll explore what SD WAN can do – and why it can help you work towards a Zen-like state of simplicity when it comes to managing your business network.

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A DIY SDWAN Guide....4 Steps To Get You Going

Are you looking to increase the performance of cloud-based applications? Or are you looking to increase network reliability or decrease network service costs? Then, SD-WAN solutions can be the perfect solution for your enterprise!

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A Network's Weakest Link May Be Different Than You Think

When asked which part of their network is the weakest or most unreliable, I’d be willing to bet that most network admins would respond by naming network segments that have commonly lagged behind from a technological perspective. Yet because so much attention has been put on improving the technologies in these specific areas, others have become neglected. What many will soon discover is that the less reliable and more problematic parts of their network have shifted toward areas that were previously "rock-solid." Let's look at why this shift has happened, where it’s likely to form, and what can be done to avoid it.

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For an IoT deployment to succeed, organizations must prepare their network infrastructure for a flood of data from the furthest reaches of the network to reduce latency and security risks. IT managers must understand how each piece -- including 5G, Wi- Fi, gateways, user interfaces and platforms -- of the IoT network integrates and how business priorities affect network architecture.

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What Bandwidth Backbone Makes The Most Sense For Networks In Africa, Middle East, And Latin America?

Given network infrastructure available in each region ... what bandwidth solution make the most sense (and why) for designing network solutions to meet business voice/data needs?

This is a difficult question to answer given the challenges faced by each region. The reality may be there is no easy answer. There is no "one size fits all" that covers all of these regions at once. So each must be treated seperately and distinctly to have any chance of success.

Some of the factors to consider likely deemed important would include business (e.g. type of business, number of locations in the network) technology (e.g. copper, fiber, wireless backhaul) economic (financing, ROI of implementation, budget), political (e.g. stable government, nationalized services, free market encouraged entrepreneurship), and regulatory (e.g. internal government restrictions, international connectivity limitations).

For example .... is a DS3 based solution viable for a multi-site WAN network in Nigeria? T1 for a single location in Brazil? Ethernet for a campus LAN in Bahrain?

These regions of the world are also commonly referred to as "developing nations", which is usually true of their infrastructure, and communications infrastructure included.

Persian gulf emirates ..... and to some extent Brazil (in the big metro areas) .... are well developed and you can expect the same telecom services to some extent as in the USA and Europe.

Elsewhere, availability is scarce and inconsistent.

For this reason many developing nations are focusing on cellular communications intending to "skip" the development of wireline infrastructure altogether. For example basing it on direct satellite service, like VSAT. There is of course the issue of delay with this approach that will effect voice and high-interactivity, so if delay is an important factor you may need to consider use of Iridium (not sure what's became of them ) or some other low-orbit satellites.

Before digging into the technical aspects for a Middle East or African network infrastructure one should look into the political situation. Most of these countries still have their local phone companies government owned. At best they are a monopoly directed by political powers and local rich people. Once you tap into the right people, these countries are more adopting of leading and bleeding edge technologies. Customers in these regions are more prone to using the "latest-&-greatest" mostly for novelty reasons. In the end, it does not matter why customers subscribe as long as the business is there!

In Africa there have been some improvements in the terrestrial subsea connectivity but that doesn't help much in reaching specific locations and providing backhaul. Similarly VSAT has been the traditional solution in Africa and some other remote regions but the proliferation of WiMax is generating increasing problems of interference. This is compounded by the unpredictable nature of licensing and controls. In my view Latin America has improved quite significantly in general access provision but quality and cost is still difficult to predict and manage. In the Middle East a lot of investment has and is taking place .... but here the biggest hurdle tends to be regulatory and the lack of an open market for supply.

A true "answer" can only be achieved by detailed study of IT and telecom prospects and existing infrastructure availability in each region. To this end the following factors should be considered;

Technology .....

This type of pursuit all depends upon types of services to be offered (like voice “Fixed or cellular”, leased circuits for WAN, broadband, Triple Play, IPTV, etc), users (e.g number of users, individual or corporate, scattered or concentrated), service coverage and existing available backbone network infrastructure (e.g. OFC network with PDH, SDH, DWDM or MW via PDH, SDH) .... then we could be able to forecast backbone bandwidth, evaluate existing available infrastructure, plan enhancements if required, select technology, and estimate the investment. The short answer is that T1, DS3, and OC3 bandwidth make sense if line infrastructure is readily available for tie in. Fiber makes better sense (ethernet) if grid is readily available and supported. If none of these are reasonably available in quantity than VSAT will continue as solution of choice with tie in to minimal hard line structure "nodes" where present.

Business/Economic ....

To prepare a business model, the factors would include by neccessity CAPEX, OPEX, NPV, IRR, revenue based on ARPU for a specific offered service, taxes, licensing fees, Inflation rate, decline in ARPU due to expected competition, last mile connectivity for corporate customer, and unforeseen costs in licensing/approvals and project rollout. This category seems the most self limiting over any technology challenges.

Regulatory / Administrative (Political) .....

The administrative factors involved would be different for each region ..... like monopolized regime and political situations in Africa and partially de-regulated environment in most of the countries in the Middle East ..... normally getting a license is a tricky job in many countries.

For each of the regions cited (Africa, Middle East, Latin America) .... depending upon your analysis per the above factors .... you may find that a realistic solution may be that a hybrid of technologies would be needed. For example, VSAT can offer a worldwide network and be integrated into terrestrial networks (T1, DS3, OCx, fast ethernet) where feasible and available. In the end there is no single solution that fits every scenario ... you must be flexible and innovative to target the right solution for each situation on it's own merits.

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