Alcatel-Lucent Managed Business Network manual Introduction

Introduction

Your enterprise customers have growing band- width, reach and reliability requirements for their voice, data and video traffic, and they are also deploying new applications to meet crucial business objectives, such as increasing efficiency. However, most existing networks cannot satisfy these new enterprise needs because they lack flexibility and offer limited bandwidth. As a result, enterprises are demanding higher bandwidth services with appli- cation-level Service Level Agreements (SLAs). They are also looking for ways to reduce network costs

by minimizing implementation and operational headaches. Managed business networking services provide enterprises with an effective way to meet these needs, by reducing the cost and complexity of managing their own network infrastructure.

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