Are your network costs constantly climbing while your IT budget stays flat? 

Learn how to break the cycle with these proven cost-saving strategies.

Most IT leaders can spot common budget drains like unused bandwidth, redundant services, and forgotten contracts. 

The real challenge isn’t identifying these problems—it’s finding the time to fix them amid vendor resistance, confusing contracts, and paperwork overload.

This cycle wastes thousands of dollars monthly. But you can break free.
Here are three specific, proven strategies to reduce network expenses while simultaneously improving performance and reliability.

Strategy 1: Prioritize Type 1 Over Type 2 (Resold) Connectivity

For superior cost control and reliability, always prioritize Type 1 connectivity when procuring internet services.
  • Type 1 Connections: Delivered directly by the provider who owns the physical infrastructure.
  • Type 2 (Resold) Connections: Involve a carrier reselling access leased from another provider.
While Type 2 connections offer vendor convenience, they come with significant disadvantages that hurt your budget and operations:
  • Higher Costs: You pay a markup so the reseller can profit from the infrastructure they’re leasing.
  • Longer Implementation: With multiple carriers involved, delays are more frequent, slowing down deployment.
  • Communication Challenges: During outages, you are stuck playing middleman between providers.
  • Compromised Network Diversity: Connections that appear diverse may use the same underlying infrastructure, creating a single point of failure.
The Bottom Line: Aggregated or resold solutions can cost 30-50% more than buying directly from Type 1 providers, with slower deployment and troubleshooting.

Strategy 2: Implement Smart Network Diversity and Redundancy

Network downtime is expensive. A smart approach to redundancy is your insurance policy against revenue loss and productivity drains.
A well-planned strategy involves two key elements: redundancy and diversity.

Optimize Redundancy:

  • Go beyond basic N+1 redundancy for mission-critical applications.
  • Consider N+2 redundancy to protect against multiple simultaneous failures for systems that directly impact revenue.
  • Implement redundant internet circuits, backup power (UPS/generators), and hardware configured for automatic failover.

Ensure True Diversity across multiple dimensions to eliminate single points of failure:

  • Carrier Diversity: Contract with different primary providers
  • Physical Path Diversity: Ensure connections enter your building via different conduits and entry points.
  • Technology Diversity: Use different connection types, such as fiber for your primary line and fixed wireless for backup.
  • Geographic Diversity: Distribute critical services across multiple data centers or facilities.
Pro Tip: Calculate the hourly cost of downtime for your key applications. 
This data-driven approach allows you to invest in redundancy where it matters most, maximizing your budget’s impact.

Strategy 3: Automate with a Live Network Management Service

Lack of visibility into your network inventory is a primary budget killer. 
Manual tracking leads to paying for unused services, missed contract renegotiation opportunities, and unnoticed billing errors.

Network Management System (NMS) automates this complexity and provides:

  • Infrastructure Performance Monitoring: Gain real-time visibility to ensure optimal performance.
  • Bandwidth Management: Optimize and allocate bandwidth effectively to enhance network performance.
  • Network Configuration Management: Maintain stability and security with centralized configuration control.
  • Automated Management: Streamline operations and reduce manual effort.
  • Firmware Vulnerability Monitoring: Automatically scan for and classify device vulnerabilities with real-time updates.
  • Compliance Management: Ensure adherence to SOX, HIPAA, PCI, and other standards with automated baseline scanning.
Imagine maintaining all of this manually. 
Most IT teams lack the bandwidth, which is why overpaying for outdated services is so common.

There is a better way.


GOIP NMS (Network Monitioring Services) helped one enterprise achieve:
25% reduction in network costs through better procurement and contract management.
50% time savings for the engineering team.

Full inventory visibility across hundreds of global locations.
According to their Network and Telecom Services Lead, “Understanding the broader marketplace would have been impossible for the team to accomplish independently.”
Ready to automate your savings?


Automate Your Enterprise Telecom Lifecycle
Stop wasting time and money on manual network management. 
GOIP NMS leverages superior market intelligence and automation to help you regain control of your network and your budget.

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