'We scale on everything else, why not bandwidth?' The advent of networking on demand

John Leonard
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Cloud is driving the moribund telecoms industry to be more flexible, argues Colt's Mike South

Enterprise IT has changed a great deal in the last decade or so, from a fixed investment with recurrent costs to a model that's more service oriented, available on demand. This change is both exemp...

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