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Putting together a RFP and sending it to a bunch of telecommunications providers WILL NOT produce the best results for your business. In addition to understanding current and future technology offerings, buyers need to understand tariffs, features, options, regional requirements, taxes and fees in order to deliver the optimal solution for their business. Source One has has been recognized as a leader in developing best-in-class telecommunications agreements since 1992, and has the resources to help your organization, no matter how far along in the sourcing process you are.

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Source One offers managed services to lower and maintain your company's wireless voice and data costs. In most cases, your organization will not even need to change carriers.

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Read about a $2.7 million networking services contract that Source One negotiated and implemented between Bradco Supply Corp and AT&T.

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With access to current tariffs, technologies, contracts and historical price points; Source One has the resources to deliver the most cost effective telecommunications solutions to your business.

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Source One has experience in all aspects of telecommunications. From convergence, wireless, POTS lines, MPLS and dark Fiber, we have the resources to get you what you need when you need it.
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Source One provides on-demand resources to your procurement and IT teams whenever and however you need it. With services ranging from strategic sourcing to bill payment, we can supplement any aspect of your business.
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Significant Cost Reduction in MPLS Implementation Case Study

Case Study: Source One delivers significant cost reduction in telecommunications project for one of the nation's largest healthcare providers.

Source One Management Services, LLC was engaged by one of the nation's largest healthcare providers to assist in the strategic sourcing of its telecommunications spend.

Included in this spend were two distinct constructs for data (Wide Area Network) and internet connectivity for different sets of locations:

1. Virtual Private Network (VPN), using the public internet, and

2. Frame Relay Network with low bandwidth ports and internet connectivity through the Frame Relay ports

In addition, from a management point of view, there were many challenges in maintaining site by site firewall and web-filtering capability. Our customer identified several pressing needs:

Dramatic increase in bandwidth

Centralized control of firewall and web-filtering

Ability to converse from site to site (as opposed to a hub and spoke model)

Addition of Class of Service to prioritize traffic across the network

And, SIGNIFICANT COST REDUCTION

Source One helped design and negotiate a single provider network on an MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) platform. Bandwidth availability increased significantly (Three to fourfold), centralized control of firewall and web-filtering was established, and sites were able to communicate directly with one another. Each site was also allowed to prioritize traffic through its own local access and across the network with the addition of QoS (Quality of Service).

Significant cost reduction was achieved in the selection of a new supplier. The network contract demonstrated a 50% savings compared to the original offer provided by the incumbent frame relay provider. By consolidating networks and implementing the new wide area network structure, our customer's actual net costs decreased by a quarter of a million dollars per year while provided much greater serviceability to its locations.

This sourcing initiative was approached with a collaborative mindset and, by combining the collective resources and category expertise of Source One and its customer, the team was able to obtain best-in-class total value for this telecommunications procurement project. The net result was a network that provided an easily managed resource with dramatic increase in bandwidth and functionality, prepared for future growth, and significant cost reduction.