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Building the managed services blueprint: from the enterprise to homeward bound.(Cover Story)

Telecommunications Americas

| September 01, 2005 | Barthold, Jim | COPYRIGHT 2005 Horizon House Publications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Before you can define the new blueprint for managed services, you need to redefine the word "building."

When managed services first arrived, the building was a corporate headquarters or branch site, and the service covered the provisioning, managing and monitoring of termination equipment and, later, routers and switches.

Providers should soon be redrawing their blueprints to include the home--where triple- and quadruple-play services are aimed--as a building. They're already architecting a foundational change in managed services to include higher-value offerings.

"The managed services marketplace has been flourishing for five to 10 years, ...

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