Q&A: Dimension Data Exec On The Rise In Network Refreshes
Submitted by Rick Saia on
So there's an opportunity here for service providers to come in and help these organizations?
Service providers and integrators. I think part of the impetus for service providers is [that] they know that clients are building their own hybrid IT and their own hybrid cloud networks. In some cases, they recognize that they don’t need a hybrid WAN strategy by a service provider, so service providers are being relegated [to such tasks as installing] circuits … And then I think clients are just waiting for some of those large contracts to expire with those service providers so they can renegotiate, and we're seeing a lot of them go to multi-aggregation or multi-carrier strategies where they might still maintain some MPLS with a carrier, but then they'd have multiple direct Internet-type of access. That's something that were seeing heavily now in terms of routing and refresh.