White Papers

> Wavelength Solutions

IT managers face huge challenges in meeting the ever-growing demands for fast, secure and reliable data and service transmission. And all in an economic environment that requires cost efficiency and exceptional return on investment. Let us demonstrate how Allstream’s Wavelength Solutions can help you effectively reach these goals while allowing you to manage and control costs.

> Unified Communications Managed Services

As the pace of business accelerates, organizations require greater ability to reach key staff, clients and suppliers in real time. In search of this holy grail, many businesses rely on a proliferating number of communication devices and applications. To resolve this challenge, Unified Communications (UC) solutions leverage IP-based technology to integrate voice, data and video applications onto a single network platform reducing the complexity and costs of operating and maintaining multiple networks.

> Drive the productivity of your Human Infrastructure and make your organization more effective

A major challenge for every organization is unifying its human infrastructure: the intricate communications web – the way people interact and collaborate with one another. The purpose of this piece is to explain the Allstream a pproach to unified communications and how it can help your organization leverage its human infrastructure to be more effective.

> Measuring Operational Success for Converged IP Networks

Canadian enterprises are migrating from traditional data transport methods to private IP infrastructure, which delivers data, voice and video across one converged network. The promise of IP networking includes lower total cost of ownership, improved reliability and simplified network access for local, remote and mobile users. However, along with one network for data, voice and video comes complexities that extend beyond the initial configuration, roll-out of services and the typical challenges that IT Help Desk staff face.

> Application and Management of Service Provider SLAs (in Converged IT Environments)

The cost of not securing network performance levels can be dire. For example, should a network outage incapacitate a large online order processing system, the company may suffer immediate, quantifiable losses stemming from costly production delays and disruptions in just-in-time supply chains. A significant disruption can also lead to long-term losses and a decline in competitiveness due to employee, supplier, customer and investor dissatisfaction.

> Building a business network for today and tomorrow

Communications networks aCommunications networks are the backbone of business operations, and your management team — particularly the CIO and CFO — has a direct and vested interest in the successful operation of your communications network. The network must deliver non-stop services to support your business operations and be highly scalable to support future growth. It must also address multiple communications needs cost-effectively and flexibly.

> Information Without Borders: Harnessing the Power of Collaboration

As organizations grapple with spiralling customer expectations and ongoing budgetary constraints, it is becoming increasingly critical to identify strategies to improve both service delivery and operational efficiency. In recent years, organizations of all sizes have found that collaboration represents an ideal way to achieve these goals.

> Driving Value and Delivering Results with Managed IT Services

In virtually every sector – from transportation and financial services to wholesale trade and business services – there’s a steady drumbeat to deliver better results with fewer resources. With the potential to increase efficiency, power new business/service models and enhance agility, technology is the one of the most popular – and effective – means of doing more with less.