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The past few years have seen profit margins from Asian
Carriers connectivity services and hardware products
from networking equipment vendors declined sharply because
of intense competition in a maturing industry. Many
of these networking vendors and Carriers have been compelled
to innovate to protect their margins which include developing
managed and application solutions to their enterprises,
encroaching into an area previously dominated by IT
Service firms like HP and IBM Global Services.
There has also been an increasing disposition by enterprises
to outsource some IT related functions. Convergence
and the emergence of many new advance business enhancing
applications have resulted in an increasingly complex
and new deployment models with network management issues.
Enterprises have turned to managed services as a way
of enjoying the benefits of these new applications,
improve time to market of new applications and with
it generating new service revenue without the hassle
of managing the complexities of the networks and applications.
In the coming IDC breakfast briefing in July 2005,
IDC's Communications and IT Services experts will share
their insights on how Asian Telecom Carriers, Global
Service Providers, Networking Vendors and IT Services
firms compete for a slice of the Managed Services market
in the Asia/Pacific region.
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