Module 6 Case Study

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What were the most important factors contributing to MMCC’s success with its new, secure, self managed network? Explain the reasons for your choices. MMCC changed their networking solutions the most important thing that helped the company was the understanding of the needs of their business and looking for the system that made it easier to meet those needs. The company made a list of the requirements needed consisting of reliability of the system, flexibility or scalability of system, Security concerns and expenses undertaken to deploy the system. When they were certain about what they need they searched for the options available and adopted the most efficient ones for the organization. The factors that made MMCC successful were: - The system had an increased bandwidth which eliminated congestion. - It was much easier to manage which lowered personnel cost. - Their new system was able to provide them greater connectivity with higher reliability, security and scalability in comparatively very low costs resulting increased productivity and profitability of the business. - Downtime was decreased and productivity increased. - Proper management of support system in order to minimize delays and errors What are some of the business benefits and challenges of self managed and externally managed networks? Benefits of self managed network are: - Saving of time and money. - Flexibility and accountability of the system. - Lower security threats Challenges of self managed network: - Lack of expertise. - Minor errors can create bigger issues. - Management issues. - Controlling issues. Benefits of externally managed network: - Assignment of responsibility and access to expertise in the area - Network doesn’t get affected by organizational disputes and there will be no distraction from core

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