Recently released spending forecasts say that telecom equipment investments outside of America will significantly outpace its domestic counterparts in 2014. That’s partially due to the fact that so many of the major US carriers have largely completed the building of their 4G structures and will move to a much slower growth model that is driven solely by customer demand. Now that mobile networks have generally stabilized, it’s a perfect opportunity for companies to review both their overall infrastructure spending and how they are provisioning services across those networks in order to provide maximum quality of service.
As professionals increase their desire to access company networks across a multitude of devices, and peripheral prices continue to drop thanks to pressure being brought by Chinese manufacturers, IT executives need to take a much more proactive stance on appropriately scaling their networks to meet that rapid advance.
You don’t want to be the one sitting in that office chair telling key decision makers you need 60 to 90 days to order new circuits just to try to keep up with demand. You want to be the trusted resource that can respond with a quick, "no problem - we can certainly meet your needs."
