In most cities the telcos also have IT divisons that come in and consult and tell you that you need more bandwidth when you find that data isn’t moving from point A to point B fast enough. Now in some cases this might be very true, but a lot of the time I see people getting recommended to buy bigger/better/faster lines to address their bandwidth issues when more often than not the issues could be solved with proper configuration of QoS and the use of WAN acceleration/optimization.

I encourage network administrators to look into the myriad of products out there in this space, from Citrix, F5, and Cisco to name a few. Usually the telcos don’t like it when you suggest products like this because it takes away from their bottom line.

-RP