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Category: Podcasts

Enterprises Beware: The Costs of ILEC Local Services are Rising

If you’re a buyer of ICT and network services, you’re probably quite familiar with SIP trunking, MPLS, UC, cloud, and many other go-to solutions used in the enterprise.  You may, however, be less familiar with legacy services such as POTS, FX, ISDN, and TDM.  These are the technologies that have […]

Changing Needs are Bolstering Demand for UCaaS Solutions

Companies are increasingly re-evaluating their needs for Unified Communications-as-a-Service (“UCaaS”) solutions, and many are taking steps to address their quickly changing UCaaS requirements.  This is particularly important in the age of COVID when the necessity to support work from home and the hybrid office are at the forefront. In this […]

Comcast’s Acquisition of Masergy May be Good for Enterprises

Comcast recently announced the closing of their acquisition of Masergy, a provider of managed WAN and cloud-based services.  Individually, these weren’t two heavyweights in the ICT arena, but the combined entity might be worth considering for enterprise buyers of ICT. In this 10-minute podcast Deb Boehling, a Partner at LB3, […]

Customer Relationships with Cisco are Complicated and Evolving

If you buy technology and services from a value added reseller (VAR), it’s important that you also have direct relationships with the key product manufacturers – also known as OEMs (short for original equipment manufacturers) – because those are the producers of the products you purchase through the VAR.  Nowhere […]

Get the Most Value from Value Added Resellers

Value added resellers are an important part of the ICT ecosystem, and without them a lot of great products and services would never make it to the enterprise.  But what are value added resellers, or VARs, and why do they exist? Listen to this 10-minute podcast as Ben Fox, one […]