
Power Up Your Small-Medium Business
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Figure 10-2 Managed Service Provider and Subscriber Demarcation
Advantages and Disadvantages of MSPs
LANs, WANs, and the Internet continue to grow not only in functionality and
business value, but also in complexity. New networking products are introduced
continually, and the old products often do not go away. Keeping up with all these
technology changes is difficult. Recruiting, training, and retaining enough
qualified staff to deal with it all is time-consuming and expensive.
Many small-medium organizations have decided that it is not worth even
trying to keep up, so they have turned to MSPs (managed service providers). ...