Reviews for 'Enterprise Networking and Communications - Others'
The managed network services (MNS) market focuses on externally provided, network operations center (NOC) functionality, as well as relevant network and security life cycle services that deliver current and emerging requirements to end users. Gartner defines the MNS market as globally capable providers of remote service management functions for the network and security operations of enterprise networks, including: Managed LAN services (MNS for LAN) Managed WAN services (MNS for WAN) Managed security (MNS for security) functions
Unified communications as a service (UCaaS) for the midmarket — defined as organizations with between 100 and 999 employees, and typically $50 million to $1 billion in revenue — includes cloud solutions intended to improve user productivity and enhance collaboration. Gartner defines UC solutions as offerings that facilitate the use of multiple enterprise communications methods to achieve those aims. UC solutions integrate communications channels (media), networks and systems, as well as IT business applications and, in some cases, consumer applications and devices. Cloud delivery of UC functions is characterized as provisioning services on shared infrastructure (for example, data centers, racks, common equipment and blades). Cloud delivery also uses shared tools (for example, provisioning, performance and network management tools); per-user-per-month pricing; and elasticity to dynamically add and remove users.
Gartner defines unified communications as a service (UCaaS) as a multitenant, subscription-based service. It is cloud-delivered, and it provides business telephony features; external, public switched telephone network (PSTN) connectivity that enables inbound or outbound calling; and collaboration features, such as messaging and meetings. UCaaS services can be consumed by end users with traditional handsets, desktop clients, meeting room systems and mobile apps. Gartner’s definition of meetings for the UCaaS market focuses on the capabilities for internal collaboration, work from home and external presentation meeting use cases only. Other specialized use cases — such as webinar, remote support, distance learning and training — are often available from UCaaS offerings, but are not mandatory for this research. These use cases are part of a separate market defined by Gartner (meeting solutions).