Realize that the trend is moving away from safe, private, and closed networks and moving toward networks that are open, shared, and at risk and nothing can stop that. Improve your negotiation skills These days, assume that everything is negotiable peak units, minutes, locations, speed, end-user equipment costs, installation, management tools. Realize it is often the hidden benefits that really count back-office systems, alternative routing philosophies, consulting services, billing arrangements, and human relationships. These are hard to put a price tag. These recommendations will likely become important in the new economy, no matter what high-speed highway your data flows across.
Few companies have the luxury of building an impressive new network in a vacuum.
The purpose of this article is to deliver some interim strategies that will relieve the current gridlock while providing good practices for the future. The network also supports 16 Mbps Token Ring networks. While data zips along local links at 10 Mbps, and even 100 Mbps, the long haul portion is often slow by comparison. Because it has been expensive, traditional WAN transport has been in the 56 Mbps to 1.544 Mbps range. Bell Atlantic has announced a 100 Mbps Fast Ethernet service available in the fall, and Gigabit Ethernet trials by late this year.