Telecom Cost Control

If you need to control your telecom costs… You need Ipanema!

Your network represents a significant part of your organization’s IT budget. Despite regular price reductions, you still notice that your total telecom bill has not really come down. Your CFO, having heard of telecom price decline, is surprised that the telecom budget remains constant and that lately it has even been increasing. You try to explain that it is due to bandwidth increase. “Increase for what?” “Do we really need these increases?” she asks. Your gut feeling tells you yes, but you lack the facts to accurately answer her questions, and moreover she is asking for future, fact-based estimates.

You are frustrated by your dialog with your CFO. You feel trapped between your end-users/requests and your CFO’s demands.

So what's going on?

Like every other organization, your telecom price reductions have been compensated by increased traffic that ranges between 30% to 50% a year. This traffic increase is caused by a huge expansion in email and internet usage and by new applications that are created for the comfort and efficiency of end-users but with complete disregard for optimal network usage.

Your colleagues and managers are used to high-speed internet access at home and see the corporate network as a never-ending inexpensive resource, but they have become unrealistic in their requests for best practices.

It's time for you to take control of your network.

The Ipanema Solution provides you with full application visibility over your network. You know which applications use what bandwidth. It then allows you to prioritize your applications by criticality, e.g. email might not be as critical as your ERP system. Finally, by using its optimization mechanisms, it guarantees the performance of your critical applications. Blindfolded bandwidth increases are no longer the only answer to poor application performance. According to Fréderic Muller, Dalkia’s Network Manager, “With the Ipanema Solution we can see if the upgrades are essential to our business applications performance. If only the low-critical applications have a poor service, we can prove it and consider that the upgrade is not essential.”

With the Ipanema Solution you satisfy end-user requests and can prove it while controlling your bandwidth increases. Ultimately this leads to lower network bills. That has been the case for Sylvain Nohannic, STEF-TFE's Network Manager, who said, “With the global and dynamic control offered by Ipanema, we have been able to reduce our sites bandwidth and as a result our network bill.”

With the Ipanema Solution, no more unjustified bandwidth increases, no more unexplained costs!