MCI has rolled out a managed content management system
aimed at enterprises wanting to spice up their web-based
presentations with video or other multimedia offerings, but do not
want to spend money on extra servers.
MCI is touting its Managed Enterprise Content Delivery Service
(ECDS) as an "end-to-end" enterprise product, with built-in
security, load balancing and always-available tech support.
With the managed ECDS, enterprise customers no longer have to
manage and monitor customer premise equipment (CPE) devices, such
as routers, at remote locations, said Jim DeMerlis, vice president
of product management at MCI.
The service will allow businesses to manage corporate data
transfers and the delivery of real-time or on-demand multimedia
applications over an enterprise frame relay, internet protocol,
asynchronous transfer mode, private IP or private-line network.
Pricing starts at $7,500 a month for a master controller server,
and $525 a month for each edge server that MCI maintains for an
enterprise. MCI also charges a one-time installation fee of $1,000
per server.
Customers will have access to a web-based portal, where they can
measure and monitor service performance and use web-based tools to
manage users down to the desktop level.
Grant Gross writes for IDG News Service