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To: zbyslaw owczarczyk who wrote (10768)	4/13/1999 10:52:00 AM
From: pat mudge	Respond to of 18016

The Yankee Group Statistics just came out recently and they're worth re-reading. CSI is NN's Carrier Scale Internetworking. TCO means total cost of ownership. A recently published study by leading industry analyst firm the Yankee Group polled prominent IP-VPN service providers and found that the CSI approach reduces TCO by 14 percent and operations costs by 37 percent to provide the most cost-effective carrier -based IP-VPN solution available. The study found that operations costs - the fully loaded cost of the service provider staff that installs, manages and maintains the network - are the biggest concern to service providers and therefore a key differentiat or in their choice of an IP-VPN solution. The MainStreetXpress 46020 Network Manager, with its centralized policy creation and distribution capabilities, is the core management component of CSI. ''Operations costs account for up to 38 percent of the total cost of ownership associated with networks that service providers use to deliver IP-VPN services. As such, addressing these costs is of primary importance to service providers,'' said Eric Hindin , Director of Network Solutions, the Yankee Group. ''The CSI approach addresses all the tasks that carriers say contribute the most to operational costs. It is also unique in that it significantly eases the burdens associated with device configuration. By reducing service provider workload, CSI allows carriers to roll out services and enhancements faster and ensure performance and functionality.''