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RAMPRATE'S NETWORK PRACTICE

RampRate's Telecommunication and Network insight has guided dozens of top IT organizations through the challenges of maintaining consistent uptime and reliable security by establishing resilient, multi-vendor backbones, and augmenting them with market-savvy spot purchases of commodity and premium IP transit. Our accomplishments in this area affect every stage of decision making:


• Review of your network services structure to identify single points of failure, disparities with market rates and service levels, and future
  extensibility issues.
• Building balanced strategies for peering, IP transit buys, MPLS, and
  private networks.
• Selecting proper architecture platforms with a view towards operational growth and efficiency.
• Selecting the right IT Supplier to optimize for a combination of cost, SLA, contract flexibility, geographical reach and other factors.
• Identifying opportunities for decreased spend, redundant capacity and routing, global expansion, build versus augmenting, and more.
• Accelerating procurement and deployment timeframes from
  months to weeks.

NETWORK – WAN / LAN, IP TRANSIT, PEERING

Understanding the transformation of data networks over the recent years can be overwhelming. As the definition of "major purchase" evolves from a T3 line to an STM-16 for RampRate customers, selecting the right network architecture for growth, while maintaining proper security and cost structure is a major challenge. Making the right decision on supplier, product, capacity requirements, security risk, disaster resiliency, and future augmentation is essential for all network decisions.

Request A Complimentary Top-Line Benchmark

If you have current IP transit spend greater than $150K / year, you may be eligible for RampRate to perform a complimentary review of three of your current contracts in the form of a no-cost Top-Line Benchmark.

The Top-Line Benchmark will identify opportunities to improve your contractual positions with respect to service levels, costs, business terms, and risk mitigation.

The Top-Line Benchmark is a no-cost, confidential service performed by our analyst team.

 

 

If you have general exploratory questions or would like a consultation with one of our Network Practice experts, please contact Michael Hoch, President, (310) 319-1599.