Breaking down the carrier barrier

Next-generation enterprise networks: Links to telecom carriers grow stronger

Michael Morisy, News Writer

As network pros look to better manage services on next-generation enterprise networks -- and avoid too-common finger-pointing over connectivity problems -- networking vendors are starting to take a page from the telecom carrier book on quality assurance even as those carriers look to more deeply integrate their services with the enterprise.
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IP-based services: Curse or blessing for NOC staff?
The looming presence and inevitable proliferation of IP-based services is one of a number of causes for night-sweats interrupting the rest of enterprise network operations center (NOC) administrators and their staffs. Will IP-based services be a blessing that leads to boom times with better budgets and greater influence for the network staff? Or will it prove to be a curse on enterprise IT and networks -- changing their role from creative innovators in the application of technology to overseers of outsourced, automated service providers?
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