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Change in the Procurement of Enterprise Network Services:

Are We Moving Down the Track or Jumping it? Voice Report White Papers Hank Levine Whatever else you can say about the Great Recession of 2007-2009, it has had a major effect on network services procurement. Last month Tom Nolle posted a typically insightful piece on No Jitter entitled “How […]

Managed Security Services

Marc Lindsey.   Enterprise Buyer Best Practices –  Marc Lindsey spoke to the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (“FFIEC”) during its 2010 annual IT Symposium. He discussed the characteristics of managed security services, examined their effect on enterprise compliance management, and shared deal tips and best practices.

SIP Trunking and the Death of the Voice Silo

The Voice Report (Vol. 31, No. 16) Hank Levine and Jack Deal Pundits have been forecasting the final and complete merger of voice and data communication for decades. But as long as there was a TDM world with PBXs or Centrex to manage and local minutes to buy, the ILECs […]

Hunger For Devices And Apps Complicates Wireless Procurements

The Voice Report (Vol. 31, No. 11) Ben Fox & Kevin DiLallo Telecom managers who shied away from innovative applications for fear that users would find them difficult to use now are faced with growing demand for user-friendly, cost-effective applications. And that means that you can no longer simply buy […]

Cash, Credit or Cell phone?

Wireless devices are on the road to becoming the next credit card. Is your enterprise ready? The Voice Report (Vol. 31, No. 11) Andrew M Brown Get ready: Through a variety of technologies and processes – RFID swipes, texting keywords to a specified address, or embedding credit card account numbers […]

SIP Trunking Contracts Part 2:

Fix (or Work Around) Limits on Your Flexibility No Jitter (www.nojitter.com) Deb Boehling, Ben Fox, Hank Levine, David Lee This is the second in a two-part article on procurement issues in SIP trunking, authored by the leading attorneys and consultants in the field, Levine, Blaszak, Block & Boothby and their […]