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Figure 5. Relative share of Year 1 savings
MBN vs. DIY
17%
Server
consolidation
40%
Personnel
11%
Network
monitoring
3%
Downtime
29%
Alcatel-Lucent has developed a business case model
that evaluates the potential savings available when an
enterprise decides to choose a service provider’s managed
business networking service, based on the Alcatel-Lucent
MBN solution. The business case compares total cost
of ownership differences between the present mode of
operation and future mode of operation for a typical
SME. It demonstrates potential cost savings of 22 percent
for a typical SME across five categories:
•MBNsolutioncomparedtodo-it-yourselfnetworking
costs (links, support and administration)
•Networkmonitoringcosts(equipmentand
maintenance)
•Personnelcost(staffreductionorre-allocation)
•Downtimecosts(areductionincomplexityandfailures)
•Servercosts(consolidationleadingtoreduced
OPEX costs)
MASERGY: A MANAGED BUSINESS NETWORKING
SERVICES SUCCESS STORY
MASERGY,aprivately-heldglobalprovider,offersa
global Ethernet WAN service with five levels of QoS
tailored to the specific needs of each enterprise customer.
TheMASERGYsolution,calledIntelligentTransport,
enables enterprise customers to deliver mission-critical
applications to multiple locations on a global basis using
VPLS and IP-VPN technology — with the same reliability
as any carrier-grade network that is deployed globally
today.OnekeytoMASERGY’simpressivesuccessis
its strong focus on the customer. Feedback shows that
MASERGY’sEthernetWANservice—basedonVPLS
— is just what enterprises want.
ThefoundationforMASERGY’sgroundbreakingsuite
ofEthernetWANservicesistheAlcatel-Lucent7750
ServiceRouter(SR).TheplatformgivesMASERGY
the power to provide business customers around the
world with Ethernet hand-offs to all locations, allowing
businesses to maintain the convenience and simplicity of
Ethernet across their wide area network. In addition, the
Alcatel-Lucent7750SRgivesMASERGYtheexibility
to offer Layer 2 VPLS, Layer 3 IP-VPN and public IP
across the same Ethernet interface on separate VLANs.
“Since moving to VPLS, we have
at least doubled the capacity at
all of our locations, and in some
cases it has increased 10-fold, while
reducing our overall network costs
by 36 percent.”
JERRY KNAUS, SYSTEMS AND NETWORK ARCHITECTURE,
JEPPESEN (A MASERGY CUSTOMER)
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