“The research demonstrates the critical role of enterprise networks on the health of the enterprise and the interest of enterprises in adopting managed services for applications networking optimisation and 24x7 network and applications performance monitoring.”

Peter Hall, principal analyst in Ovum’s Enterprise Practice

White paper:
The Need for Application SLAs - A new opportunity for Service Providers to increase market share, revenues and profits.

Service Provider Solution Overview

A study conducted in June 2008 with 150 large enterprises in North America and Europe by analyst and consulting firm Ovum revealed that fewer than 50% of them rate their tools “good” in maintaining high performance of applications on their corporate networks. However, 78% said that a performance degradation of networked applications would have a severe or major impact on their company.

Enterprises are looking for consistent end-to-end application performance. And a large portion of them are looking at deploying application traffic management in their WAN in the form of managed services.

There is a unique opportunity for service providers, either Telcos or independent Managed Service Providers, to deliver high-value services that bridge the gap between the WAN and the performance of business critical applications.

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