WANOPT supports its clients in the difficult task of selecting the telecommunication infrastructure providers. We empower our clients with competitive intelligence to guarantee to our clients the best prices available in the marketplace.

A company trying to decide between several service providers offering several possible services must consider a combination of factors. The obvious comparison is between ongoing monthly payments. Then there are more intangible issues related to things like control, level of responsiveness and technological trends.

But even if we limit ourselves to the tangible factors (prices), it is very difficult to compare service provider’s proposals. It happens due the fact that reorganizing the WAN topology to take full advantage of the different interconnection alternatives isn’t trivial and the pricing strategies adopted by each service provider for different services vary.

Therefore, comparing proposals brings two sets of problems:

First, there is the issue of rearranging the network topology. To be able to identify the ideal WAN structure we should be able to define all possible topological scenarios and for each topological scenario verify the volumes/flows and then quote the interconnections with the service providers. Only doing it we would be able to take full advantage of the different interconnection pricing strategies and prices associated with our specific geographical dispersion. However, Identify the possible topologies isn’t easy, and calculate the traffic volume/flows for each topological scenario is even more difficult.

Secondly, even if we do not intend to rearrange the network topology, we can lock in the current topology (to simplify the problem) and ask the service providers to quote the interconnections for a specific traffic volume/profile the comparison will be difficult due the differences in pricing strategies adopted. Some services providers will charge based on bandwidth and distance others on CIR, others will charge a defined value for the cloud plus access, so forth so on.

Therefore, even locking the topology (most telecom managers do exactly that in this situation) the calculations necessary to properly compare the proposals are not easy. You have to know very well your traffic (volume/profile/interest) and be able to properly calculate all distances, CIRs, bandwidths, spoken minutes etc, in order to be able to calculate how much would cost to transport each site’s flow using each pricing strategy (used by each service provider for each service/technology) (Of course, everything within a defined QoS). Definitely, not a trivial task.

As a result of these difficulties, most companies decide about which services/technologies and service providers are going to be adopted based on intangible factors (relationship with the service provider, technological trends etc) or based on tangible factors improperly calculated (Normally based on monthly payment value assuming a defined topological scenario (usually star)).

This process leds to a situation where most WANs are far from ideally designed and usually have room for improvements. The key point to be able to take advantage of this potential for improvement is having the tools to do the necessary calculations. "WANOPT provides the services to address this kind of situation. Through its exclusive analytical tool (Ariete®) it empowers its clients allowing them to achieve the utmost in wide are networks optimizations and analysis.

• We analyze all possible topologies;
• For each topology we analyze all possible physical routes;
• For each possible combination of routes we analyze all possible combinations of applications flows;
• For each possible combination of flows over routes we test all possible service providers and all possible technologies available in each interconnection;
• Doing this we find the optimum backbone cost;
• We also calculate the access and the node's costs;
• The network cost is a combination of backbone, access and nodes.

In addition of that, we are able to verify the compatibility between the public infrastructure available and the organization's sites. This kind of verification empowers our negotiable position increasing the chances of getting good deals.