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:
•MBN solution compared to do-it-yourself networking costs (links, support and administration)
•Network monitoring costs (equipment and maintenance)
•Personnel cost (staff reduction or re-allocation)
•Downtime costs (a reduction in complexity and failures)
•Server costs (consolidation leading to reduced
OPEX costs)
MASERGY: A Managed Business Networking Services Success Story
MASERGY, a privately-held global provider, offers a global Ethernet WAN service with five levels of QoS tailored to the specific needs of each enterprise customer. The MASERGY solution, called Intelligent Transport, 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. One key to MASERGY’s impressive success is
its strong focus on the customer. Feedback shows that MASERGY’s Ethernet WAN service — based on VPLS
— is just what enterprises want.
The foundation for MASERGY’s ground breaking suite of Ethernet WAN services is the Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router (SR). The platform gives MASERGY
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-Lucent 7750 SR gives MASERGY the flexibility to offer Layer 2 VPLS, Layer 3 IP-VPN and public IP across the same Ethernet interface on separate VLANs.
Figure 5. Relative share of Year 1 savings
MBN vs. DIY
17%
Personnel
11%
Server
consolidation
40%
Network
monitoring
3%
Downtime
29%
“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.”
J e r ry K n au s, S ys t e m s a n d N e t wo r k A r c h i t e c t u r e ,
J e p p e s e n ( a M A S E R G Y c u s t o m e r )
