Tag: Telecom Equipment
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Buying enterprise technology internationally is only half of the procurement challenge. The other half is getting it safely from the supplier to the destination. Servers, network systems, telecommunications hardware and industrial equipment present logistics requirements that differ significantly from ordinary commercial goods. They may be expensive, fragile, configuration-specific, unusually heavy or subject to complex customs…
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Introduction Telecommunications networks present a procurement challenge unlike almost any other technology environment. A data center can sometimes replace an entire platform within a planned modernization cycle. Telecommunications infrastructure, however, may consist of thousands of interconnected systems distributed across cities, regions or entire countries. Replacing one component can therefore have consequences far beyond the equipment…