Staying Connected

Comcast recently announced the closing of their acquisition of Masergy, a provider of managed WAN and cloud-based services.  Individually, these weren’t two heavyweights in the ICT arena, but the combined entity might be worth considering for enterprise buyers of ICT.

In this 10-minute podcast Deb Boehling, a Partner at LB3, Jack Deal, one of TC2’s Managing Directors, and Joe Schmidt discuss the merger of Masergy and Comcast and offer some tips on what enterprises need to consider before engaging this new organization.

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The IPv4 address transfer market is probably not well understood by most organizations, and few likely know how to go about monetizing unused IPv4 assets.  Fortunately, companies like Avenue4 exist and can help enterprises advance transparency and efficiency in an evolving and opaque market.

In this 14-minute podcast, Marc Lindsey, a Partner at LB3 and President of Avenue4 (an LB3-affiliated company) discusses with TC2’s Joe Schmidt why the IPv4 market exists and explains how enterprises can realize value from IPv4 transactions.

If you would like to learn more about our experience in this space, please visit the Avenue4 website and our Information Technology Advisory Services webpage.

If you buy technology and services from a value added reseller (VAR), it’s important that you also have direct relationships with the key product manufacturers – also known as OEMs (short for original equipment manufacturers) – because those are the producers of the products you purchase through the VAR.  Nowhere is this more important for most companies than with one of the bigger OEMs… Cisco.

In this 10 minute podcast, Ben Fox, one of TC2’s Managing Directors, and Joe Schmidt look at how Cisco’s enterprise interactions are evolving and offer guidance on how you can get the most value out of your Cisco relationship.

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Value added resellers are an important part of the ICT ecosystem and without them, a lot of great products and services would never make it to the enterprise.  But what are value added resellers, or VARs, and why do they exist?

Listen to this 10-minute podcast as Ben Fox, one of TC2’s Managing Directors, and Joe Schmidt describe what VARs do, explain some of the nuances of their pricing, and offer up some tips to help you get the most value from your value added reseller.

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As more applications are being transitioned to the cloud, and as COVID-19 is becoming COVID-21 and the work-from-home scenario is becoming the new normal for many businesses, there is an urgent need for work-from-anywhere to support the modern enterprise organization.  In the era of cloud-first architectures, what are considered best practices for hardening and delivering resiliency to support this architecture? 

In this 11-minute podcast, TC2’s Technical Director, David Lee, Senior Consultant Brent Knight, and Director Joe Schmidt look at how to efficiently harden and deliver resiliency in the enterprise WAN, review potential trip-ups for enterprise facilities and work-from-home scenarios, and discuss what enterprise customers should do.

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Enterprises will normally spend a lot of effort to source and negotiate contracts for managed services and outsourcing arrangements.  They don’t, however, always give the same attention to IT infrastructure projects … to their detriment.

Listen to this 9-minute podcast as Ben Fox, one of TC2’s Managing Directors, and Joe Schmidt discuss what IT infrastructure projects might look like in your company and why applying some rigor to the sourcing process will likely deliver better pricing and a Statement of Work that works for you.

If you would like to learn more about our experience in this space, please visit our Managed Services & Outsourcing and Success Stories webpages.

Worldwide, the race is on to build out 5G networks.  In the U.S., T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T are laying out their plans, and their money, to own a piece of this next-generation wireless market.  At the beginning of this month, however, AT&T filed a Petition at the Federal Communications Commission asking for the adoption of so-called “spectrum screens.”  Is this AT&T being a good corporate citizen supporting sensible regulation to preserve competition, or is AT&T cynically exploiting the regulatory process to slow down T-Mobile and protect its own position?

To find out, listen to this 10-minute podcast in which LB3 Partners Kevin DiLallo and Andrew Brown talk with TC2’s Joe Schmidt and provide an explanation of spectrum screens, why they could be a good thing for competition in 5G, and what it all means for enterprises.

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According to sources, GTT Communications is heading into Chapter 11 bankruptcy.  The filing is expected to take place once GTT’s sale of its European and transoceanic fiber business is completed with I-Squared Capital.  The bankruptcy filing could be a bad thing for enterprises or – by eliminating close to $3 billion in debt – GTT might be able to refocus its business and offer the type of transformational technology and services enterprises need.

In this 8 minute podcast, Jack Deal, one of TC2’s Managing Directors, and Joe Schmidt take a look at how GTT got into this position and offer some tips for current and future GTT customers.

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Earlier in 2021, the Federal Communications Commission announced the winners of the C-Band spectrum auction – the wireless frequency carriers need to provide the holy grail of 5G services.  AT&T, Verizon Wireless, and T-Mobile have committed billions of dollars to secure the needed spectrum and build-out of their networks, expecting a big payback from consumers and enterprises.

In this 10 minute podcast, Kevin DiLallo, a Partner at LB3, and TC2’s Joe Schmidt take a closer look at what this revolutionary wireless technology holds for the future.

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Well, it happened again.  For the fifth time in three years, T-Mobile, the nation’s second largest wireless carrier, has suffered a data breach that exposed highly sensitive personal information, affecting some 53 million current and past customers, as well as others who may have applied for T-Mobile accounts and were denied.  Most alarmingly, it appears T-Mobile wasn’t aware that it had been hacked and the hackers claim to have already sold the first batch of data. 

This 11-minute podcast with Kevin DiLallo, a Partner at LB3, and TC2’s Joe Schmidt takes a closer look at how this hack may influence how your enterprise conducts its business and offers up some much-needed guidance to help you protect your company and your data.

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