With demand for businesses to consume collaboration services in the cloud at an all-time high right now, CDW has added the Cisco Unified Communications Manager Cloud (UCM Cloud) solution to its Managed Collaboration Anywhere (MCA) portfolio. This portfolio now includes managed collaboration solutions covering the complete Cisco Hosted and Cloud Calling portfolio of Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution (HCS), Cisco UCM Cloud and Cisco Webex Calling. Cisco is currently providing collaboration solutions that deliver enterprise-grade service to more than 100 million devices.

Most enterprise WANs are built using MPLS VPN service, sometimes using two connections from different providers for diversity and often with Internet VPN for backup. MPLS VPN is easy to order and manage, very reliable and most performance issues can be fixed simply by throwing more money to the provider for circuit upgrades. The chief…