A major concern in the distributed enterprise is poor performance of applications as they cross the WAN, hindering company-wide initiatives such as virtualisation, server consolidation and migration to web applications. Opteq’s broad feature set would complement your already existing managed services by allowing you to offer additional services that would not otherwise be easily achievable. More and more companies are demanding greater flexibility in technology to allow them to choose between CAPEX or OPEX options and the demand for intelligent managed services is on the upswing. Simply put you could not do the same with Cisco equipment or anybody else at the same price point which is imperative when trying to market a service offering.

Network integrators and resellers are all facing decreasing margins as simply reselling network equipment is becoming a commoditized business. According to an IDC survey, customers are clamouring for network application-centric features and 47% of them are favouring buying them as a service.

A real opportunity exists to offer application-centric managed services. Opteq offers you a scalable and cost-effective system that allows you to provide a host of valuable services such as:

• Application reporting services: report on application usage and performance across the whole network
• WAN optimization services: optimize the WAN resources and guarantee the performance of critical applications
• Acceleration services: tactical or global application acceleration eventually associated with a wider data centre consolidation service
• Application performance helpdesk services: troubleshoot and correct application performance issues
• Dynamically reallocate TOS service tags through extended MPLS.
• Change management services: assess VoIP readiness, secure a new application roll-out, control the effects of growth etc.
• Capacity planning services: advise on the right level of bandwidth to achieve desired service levels

By offering innovative, application-centric, managed services, you will not only address the number one concern of your clients – consistent end-to-end application performance – but you will also boost revenues and margins, create a recurring revenue stream and avoid the trap of commoditization all whilst beefing up your managed service offering !