Inhibitors for Metro Ethernet adoption

Wide Area Networking This newsletter is sponsored by MASERGY New Webcast! VPLS' Emergence in Enterprise Wide-Area Networking Virtual Private LAN Service is a standardized managed WAN service that's making the lives of network IT executives easier. Learn how VPLS is allowing enterprises to easily connect remote sites around the country - and the world - with unprecedented agility, flexibility, manageability, security and cost savings. Network World's Wide Area Networking Newsletter, 06/07/07 Inhibitors for Metro Ethernet adoption By Steve Taylor and Jim Metzler As a part of the continuing discussion of Metro Ethernet, we’re following the last newsletter’s discussion of primary drivers for implementation with the primary inhibitors for implementation. In other words, if this is a great idea, why isn’t everybody already using these services. As discussed in the previous newsletters, this information is based on a study conducted by Kubernan and available at Webtorials. The inhibitors, by the way, assumed that the service is available. And ubiquitous service availability is far from being a reality at this juncture. However, if the service is available, the No. 1 inhibitor for users is “high prices,” cited by 38% of the respondents. (This was seen as a primary inhibitor by 29% of the service providers.) At first glance, this seems to be highly contradictory with the prior newsletter in which we noted that a lower cost for higher speed access services was a major driver. However, if one considers that this was a driver for 80% of the user respondents, vs. being an inhibitor for 38%, the percentages make a lot more sense. That is, the inhibitors are much more evenly distributed with the highest ranking inhibitor garnering 38% vs. the highest ranking driver garnering 80% of the user responses. The next three inhibiting factors were starkly different for users and service providers. The second leading concern for users was “managing and troubleshooting,” cited by 36%, a statistical dead heat with the higher service prices. However, 48% of the service providers saw this as a major issue, making it the second overall inhibitor from their perspective. VoIP: Lessons from Early Adopters Experts say VoIP isnt a magic wand that will solve all of an organizations communications challenges right out of the box. Learn why VoIP may not produce expected savings and productivity gains, and other lessons from early adopters. Click Here to Watch In the next newsletter, we’ll wrap up the Metro Ethernet inhibitors with a discussion of reliability, security, and other factors.   What do you think? Post a comment on this newsletter

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Contact the author: Steve Taylor is president of Distributed Networking Associates and publisher/editor-in-chief of Webtorials. For more detailed information on most of the topics discussed in this newsletter, connect to Webtorials, the premier site for Web-based educational presentations, white papers, and market research. Taylor can be reached at taylor@webtorials.com Jim Metzler is the Vice President of Ashton, Metzler & Associates, a consulting organization that focuses on leveraging technology for business success. Jim assists vendors to refine product strategies, service providers to deploy technologies and services, and enterprises evolve their network infrastructure. He can be reached via e-mail. This newsletter is sponsored by MASERGY New Webcast! VPLS' Emergence in Enterprise Wide-Area Networking Virtual Private LAN Service is a standardized managed WAN service that's making the lives of network IT executives easier. Learn how VPLS is allowing enterprises to easily connect remote sites around the country - and the world - with unprecedented agility, flexibility, manageability, security and cost savings. ARCHIVE Archive of the Wide Area Networking Newsletter. BONUS FEATURE IT PRODUCT RESEARCH AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Get detailed information on thousands of products, conduct side-by-side comparisons and read product test and review results with Network World’s IT Buyer’s Guides. Find the best solution faster than ever with over 100 distinct categories across the security, storage, management, wireless, infrastructure and convergence markets. Click here for details. PRINT SUBSCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE You've got the technology snapshot of your choice delivered to your inbox each day. Extend your knowledge with a print subscription to the Network World newsweekly, Apply here today. International subscribers, click here. SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES To subscribe or unsubscribe to any Network World newsletter, change your e-mail address or contact us, click here. This message was sent to: networking.world@gmail.com. Please use this address when modifying your subscription. Advertising information: Write to Associate Publisher Online Susan Cardoza Network World, Inc., 118 Turnpike Road, Southborough, MA 01772 Copyright Network World, Inc., 2007