Connectivity & network
Your circuit was sized for a company that doesn't exist anymore.
Most of what we look at was designed around a central office, back when the applications lived there and so did the people. It usually still works. It just costs more than it should and breaks harder than it needs to when something goes wrong.
What we look at
Two things, and they tend to fail together.
We score these separately, because plenty of companies are solid on one and wide open on the other without ever realizing it.
Staying up
What actually stops if the main circuit drops, and for how long. Your cloud applications, your phones, and your card processing usually ride the same path, so they all go at once. And a backup circuit from the same provider, or running through the same conduit, fails right alongside it more often than people expect. Real diversity means a different medium on a different physical route.
How the traffic moves
How each location and each remote person actually reaches your applications. The honest answer, not the diagram on the wall. Pulling cloud traffic back through the office slows down every application your people touch all day, and it turns the office into a single point of failure for everyone working outside it.
What changed
A lot of this used to be enterprise-only. It isn't now.
If your agreement predates the shift, there's a decent chance you're paying old prices for an old design, and turning down options someone once told you were out of reach.
Available now, at your size
- Fixed wireless and satellite service have brought a genuinely separate second path down in price. Running on one circuit is now a decision, not a limitation.
- Put an LTE or 5G failover router in front of it and the cutover takes seconds instead of hours.
- SD-WAN lets each site pick the best path per application, and treats broadband, fiber, and wireless as one pool instead of three separate contracts.
- Routing that understands applications gives voice and video priority without buying bandwidth you don't need.
Whether any of it is worth doing depends entirely on what you've already got. That's what the assessment sorts out.
The risk of waiting
An outage turns into a shutdown.
On a single path, a backhoe two streets over takes down order entry, the phones, and payment processing at the same moment. One day of that usually costs more than a second circuit does for a year. And a network built around a central office will fight you on every application you try to move to the cloud. The longer it stays, the more the eventual change costs.
Find out where you actually stand.
Ten questions, about five minutes. You don't have to give us your email to see the result.