How will Lumen's recent EMEA divestiture impact your organization? The expansion and retraction of individual providers' networks that we see with Lumen's sale of its EMEA assets to COLT allows Lumen to focus on its North American core, while utilizing Colt's expanded footprint to serve international clients.

In this 12-minute episode of Staying Connected, Tony Mangino and Frank Zagrodnik from TC2 are joined by LB3's Deb Boehling to outline potential impacts of supplier asset divestitures, some specifics on Lumen's recent EMEA divestiture, and how enterprises can manage these changes.

If you would like to learn more about our experience in this space, please visit our Network Services Transactions and Technology Consulting and Strategy Development webpages.

SASE, A Practical Guide to the Future of Secure Networking

SASE is one of the biggest shifts in enterprise networking and security — and it's changing how the enterprise thinks about architecture, access, and risk.

If you've heard secure access service edge (SASE) come up in cloud or cybersecurity discussions but still want a clear, practical definition, you're not alone. In this 8-minute episode of Staying Connected, Deb Boehling of LB3 joins Brent Knight and Tony Mangino of TC2 to define SASE, explain why it matters, and share how organizations are putting it into practice.

If you would like to learn more about our experience in this space, please visit our Information Technology Advisory Services and Technology Consulting and Strategy Development Services webpages.

IT cost management is more than a "finance cleanup exercise," it's a board-level priority.

If you're responsible for major run-rate spend across cloud, software, telecom, and infrastructure, you've probably felt this shift. Cost questions used to be periodic, but now are continuous and tied directly to governance and risk.

In this 11-minute episode of Staying Connected, TC2's Theresa Knutson joins Tony Mangino to unpack what this looks like from an executive perspective.

If you would like to learn more about our experience in this space, please visit our IT Cost Management and Strategic Sourcing webpages.

Legacy networks are a classic form of technology debt: they work, but they quietly limit agility, drive unnecessary cost and constrain innovation.

In this 10-minute episode of Staying Connected, TC2's Keith Cook joins Tony Mangino to talk through how enterprises are shedding that debt by moving to an Internet-first WAN—and how to do it with a clear plan rather than a disruptive leap. We cover how enterprise buyers should think about connectivity mix, supplier selection, SD-WAN strategy, and security design—all before going to market.

If you would like to learn more about our experience in this space, please visit our Technology Consulting & Strategy Development Services and Strategic Sourcing webpages.

Enterprise IT and procurement teams start the year with big priorities; however without disciplined contract management and a clear view of services and spend, those good intentions may be lost as costs and risk can creep in, weakening your leverage.

In this 11-minute episode of Staying Connected, Laura McDonald of LB3 joins Tony Mangino to walk through a practical New Year's "housekeeping" checklist to spotlight the steps teams should take to avoid missed credits, address chronic service issues, build leverage, and tighten vendor governance so that the big priorities can be met without unnecessary friction.

If you would like to learn more about our experience in this space, please visit our Network Services Transactions, Strategic Sourcing and IT Cost Management webpages.

Lumen recently announced the migration of its legacy "Control Center" customer portal to the newly branded "Lumen Connect".

In this 8-minute episode of Staying Connected, TC2's Theresa Knutson joins Tony Mangino to cover what's changing with this rollout, why Lumen is making these moves now, and what steps your team should be taking.

If you would like to learn more about our experience in this space, please visit our IT Cost Management webpage.

If you manage telecom and technology spend at a large enterprise scale, you already know the hardest part isn't finding "savings." It's sustaining control—inventory accuracy, invoice integrity, governance, and supplier leverage—month after month, deal after deal.

In this 9-minute episode of Staying Connected, TC2's Theresa Knutson joins Tony Mangino to mark the first anniversary of TC2's TEM Talk user group (our enterprise-only monthly forum for professionals responsible for the management, oversight, and optimization of technology vendors and expenditures), and to discuss what the community has learned—and what's coming next.

If you would like to learn more about our experience in this space, please visit our IT Cost Management webpage. Interested in joining the TEM Talk user group? Email Theresa directly at [email protected].

As enterprises push to modernize, many find that years of accumulated decisions have created a heavy, often invisible burden in their IT environments.

In this 9-minute podcast, Brent Knight joins Tony Mangino to discuss how technology debt accumulates over time, why it is so difficult to unwind, and how enterprises can build a fact-based view of their hardware, software and WAN liabilities to enable strategic, data driven, decision making and fund transformational initiatives.

If you would like to learn more about our experience in this space, please visit our Technology Consulting & Strategy Development Services and Strategic Sourcing webpages.

As enterprises push to modernize, many find that years of accumulated decisions have created a heavy, often invisible burden in their IT environments.

In this 9-minute podcast, Brent Knight joins Tony Mangino to discuss how technology debt accumulates over time, why it is so difficult to unwind, and how enterprises can build a fact-based view of their hardware, software and WAN liabilities to enable strategic, data driven, decision making and fund transformational initiatives.

If you would like to learn more about our experience in this space, please visit our Technology Consulting & Strategy Development Services and Strategic Sourcing webpages.

Hyperscalers like AWS, Microsoft, Google and Meta continue to make significant infrastructure investments in ultra-high capacity subsea cables. This new generation of connectivity provides a compelling alternative to telco-provided circuits with the added potential benefit of direct integration with enterprise-grade cloud computing, edge and connectivity services.

In this 9-minute podcast, Deb Boehling joins Tony Mangino to discuss the opportunities and risks for enterprise customers and why hyperscalers should be considered in your network technology and sourcing roadmaps.

If you would like to learn more about our experience in this space, please visit our and Information Technology Advisory Services and Technology Consulting & Strategy Development Services webpages.