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Own Your Deal or Your Supplier Will Own You

At LB3 and TC2 we spend a lot of our timing helping clients negotiate best-in-class deals for telecom, ICT, and other technology solutions. We’ve done this for many years, so we know what best-in-class looks like. Unfortunately, we also occasionally come across deals that are not quite best-in-class and where […]

Why Buying IT is a Team Effort

Enterprises demand many things from IT – increase capacity, build in flexibility, be responsive to future needs, ensure security and compliance – and they want it all at a lower cost, and they want the technology available faster and more efficiently than in the past. To meet these demands, enterprises […]

Wireless Signal Boosters – What Businesses Need to Know

In 2018, ubiquitous and reliable wireless service connectivity is a business necessity. Yet coverage gaps and dead zones in business locations – large buildings, office campuses, even small branch offices – create frustrating interruptions, dropped calls, and poor connections. Professionally installed distributed antenna systems offer one solution, but they are […]

Sprint and T-Mobile Merger – This Time for Real?

Well, they’re at it again. Sprint and T-Mobile have announced yet again plans to merge and create a third national wireless provider that could either provide some serious competition to AT&T and Verizon or reduce competition for wireless services in the US. Is this time different because there’s a new […]

SD-WAN – Catch the Next Wave of Cost Savings

Software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) technology is starting to roll out in enterprise deployments, and the savings can be impressive—if you trust it enough as a replacement for your tried-and-true MPLS.  So how can you prepare your organization to take advantage of this new technology while not putting your connectivity (and job) […]

How to Negotiate a Cisco Enterprise Agreement

Cisco Enterprise Agreements (“EAs”) are becoming an increasingly popular vehicle for purchasing and consuming software products and services from Cisco. The general concept is that – rather than purchasing individual software products and associated software maintenance on a unit by unit basis – the enterprise pays Cisco an upfront fee […]