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Telecom Optimization
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Higher Education + Technology = ACUTA
Trends and Opportunities
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device that could be purchased by create some legal issues. Risk reducing
As a CIO, it is important for
• Professional networking at its best happens at the face-to-face employees. IT will need to determine policies must be developed.
me to be a part of a group of events and via the listserv/community. We provide opportunities to connect Fwhich devices it is able to support.
• Responsibilities: Does an employee
people who strive to con nually evolve as knowledgeable with people who can help you succeed.
• Geo-Fencing: It may be that security, or
ixed and mobile telecom service
using a device with corporate apps and
COLWELL
technology professionals.
• High-quality education features presenters at seminars and data use needs, require policies to gov-
data have a responsibility to protect the
optimization is the practice of improving
I know of no be er organiza on conferences who are experts in the eld.
ern devices used within prede ned geo-
device? What if precautions are not taken service-to-cost performance and right-sizing
to be a part of than ACUTA.
Keith Fowlkes • Valuable publications bring critical information to you in a timely, to protect the device?
graphical areas. Different regions gener-
service capacity based on dynamic business
By Timothy C. Colwell, SVP Ef -
Director of Informaon Technology pro-active way.
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ally have different laws.
needs. According to a recent AOTMP research
Services and CIO • Online resources give you access to solutions that will help you meet and organiz(awtiwown.saodtmifpf.ecromf)rom country to
• Bandwidth Throttling: Organizations
study, 100% of enterprises indicate they perform
Centre College
the needs of your campus faculty, staff, and students.
country, so policy may have to be altered
must determine how to allocate employ-
optimization activities that seek to eliminate
• Professional development opportunities abound at ACUTA, on a country-to-country basis.
ee demand for bandwidth across a broad
unused and underutilized telecom services to
E ective and productive optimization requires
giving you experiences that will help you grow professionally and advance your career.
swath of locations, roles and usage vol-
• Liability: Who is liable for the loss of pri-
some degree.
a rm understanding of utilization rates and
umes.
vate data when protocols are followed?
While all enterprises perform optimization
trends, as well as business drivers behind the
www.acuta.org • Business Support vs. Personal Support:
• Privacy: What measures will a company
activities, the depth of focus and frequency
trends. Implementing an optimization practice
Questions: Call Amy at (859) 278-3338.
Organizations must determine the extent
take to protect the privacy of the employee?
of activities vary greatly. Only two-thirds
that analyzes utilization across all services in the
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to which they are willing to provide
• Look for the second part of this article
(67%) of enterprises perform mobile rate plan
telecom estate improves an organizations ability
Connecting Campus IT Professionals with Ideas and Solutions
technical support for an employee-owned
where we will detail the next three essen-
optimization activities and only 61% focus on
to con rm and establish e cient service-to-cost
device.
tials for a successful BYOD policy. % performance while maintaining technical and
xed telecom voice service optimization. ese
• DeviceLoss:Devicelossortheftisafact
numbers are surprising as mobile adoption and
nancial e ciency across the telecom estate. n
of life. Therefore, an organization should
utilization are increasing and xed voice service
have a plan for protecting (or wiping) a
utilization is declining as mobile services are
lost device.
supplanting xed voice for many business users.
• Reimbursement: How will employees
Inc.
Digging deeper in to the research ndings,
be reimbursed for devices and/or data
Connect and Communicate
the frequency of optimization suggests that
plans?
enterprises may not be fully equipped with the
tools, resources and information required to
Essential 3: Build a Legal Policy
e ectively perform optimization activities. Only
Framework
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40% of enterprises that perform mobile rate
Allowing employee-owned devices into
plan optimization do so on a monthly basis with
the work environment will undoubtedly
14% performing the activity on an as needed
basis. Only 8% perform xed telecom service
voice optimization on a monthly basis with 23%
NpeIrXforOmNing the activity on an as needed basis.
ese rates suggest that several organizations
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bear potential risk for maintaining unneeded and
to maintain operations. This means each
underutilized xed and mobile services, which
piece of your internal network is still
leads to excess cost.
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responsible for connecting you to vital
NETWORKING data, and can still present a liability when
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set, and peripherals) within the building
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Voice QoS, Multi WAN Redundancy, Content Filter and Network Security
depends on power to function properly.
invoices forever. There is no statute of
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limitations on collecting for unpaid invoices.
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Wi-Fi and/or cellular signals?
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marketing, or sale of any type of jamming
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