Managed Service Providers
Network integrators and resellers are all facing decreasing margins as simply reselling network equipment becomes a commoditized business. Meanwhile, their customers, according to an IDC survey, are clamoring for network application-centric features and 47% of them are favoring buying them as a service.
A real opportunity exists today to offer application-centric managed services.
Ipanema Technologies, through its Autonomic Networking System and the dedicated SALSA platform, offer managed service providers a scalable and cost-effective system that allows them to provide a host of valuable services such as:
- Application reporting services: report on application usage and performance across the whole network
- WAN optimization services: optimize the WAN resources and guarantee the performance of critical applications
- Acceleration services: tactical or global application acceleration eventually associated with a wider datacenter consolidation service
- Application performance helpdesk services: troubleshot and correct application performance issues
- Change management services: assess VoIP readiness, secure a new application roll-out, control the effects of growth etc.
- Capacity planning services: advise on the right level of bandwidth to achieve desired service levels
By offering innovative, application-centric, managed services, network integrators will not only address the number one concern of their clients – consistent end-to-end application performance – but they will also boost revenues and margins, create a recurring revenue stream and avoid the trap of commoditization.
