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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) […]

Contracts and SLAs in the SD-WAN Environment

An SD-WAN enabled network transformation raises unique issues about the way enterprise customers source and contract these services. Getting what you bargained for during contract negotiations is paramount. But so is maintaining flexibility in your legal arrangements to ensure that your organization maximizes the benefits of moving your network to […]