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How to Significantly Reduce Networking Costs
2 March 2010
 
Jay E. Pultz  

Networking typically accounts for more than 15% of total annualized IT costs. By fully implementing the recommended actions in this research, network managers can typically reduce their cost structures by 25% or more within three years -- and by as much as 10% during the next 12 months.




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Table of Contents


    
 Analysis

1.0
    
 Situation Analysis
2.0
    
 Preliminaries: Get a Handle on Networking Costs

2.1
    
 Understand Your Networking TCO
2.2
    
 Use Gartner's ITKMD to Analyze Your Costs
2.3
    
 Going Beyond ITKMD
3.0
    
 Seven Key Actions to Lower Networking Cost Structure

3.1
    
 Consider Deferring Certain KIs
3.2
    
 Open Up Major Contracts for Renegotiation
3.3
    
 Make Sure You Are Paying for Just What You Have
3.4
    
 Make Sure You Have Just What You Need

3.4.1
    
 Optimize Network Design
3.4.2
    
 Estimate (Don't "Guestimate") Bandwidth Needs
3.5
    
 Consolidate and Use Networks to Consolidate I&O

3.5.1
    
 Consolidate Networking
3.5.2
    
 Use Networking to Consolidate I&O
3.6
    
 Lower NOC Costs

3.6.1
    
 ITIL-ize the NOC
3.6.2
    
 Integrate the NOC With Infrastructure Operations
3.6.3
    
 Automate the NOC
3.7
    
 Reduce Business Costs With Networking
4.0
    
 Evaluating the Seven Cost-Cutting Actions

    
 Recommended Reading


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Figure 1. 
 Typical Enterprise IT and Networking Costs
 

Figure 2. 
 Typical TSP Proposal for an Enterprise WAN
 

Figure 3. 
 Modified Enterprise WAN Design
 

Figure 4. 
 Potential NOC Evolution
 

Figure 5. 
 Network Management Tool Hierarchy
 

Figure 6. 
 Videoconferencing/Telepresence Break-Even Analysis
 

Figure 7. 
 Evaluating the Cost Reduction Actions
 



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