When each location buys its own internet from whoever knocked first, you end up with a patchwork of carriers, contracts, and price points that's impossible to manage. Standardizing fixes that.
The Problem With Site-by-Site Buying
Different carriers per site means different bills, renewal dates, support numbers, and service levels \xE2\x80\x94 and no leverage. IT spends time chasing carriers, and finance can't forecast. Multiply that by ten locations and the overhead is real.
What Standardizing Looks Like
- One design standard: a defined circuit type, speed tier, and SLA per site profile (HQ, branch, retail, etc.).
- Consolidated management: ideally one point of contact coordinating all carriers.
- Aligned contracts: renewal dates and terms that you can manage as a portfolio.
- Centralized network: SD-WAN to manage all sites from one place with consistent policy and failover.
Leverage bonus: buying connectivity as a portfolio rather than one site at a time usually improves pricing \xE2\x80\x94 carriers compete harder for the whole footprint.
How to Get There
Start with an inventory of every site's current service, cost, and renewal date. Then define your site profiles and standardize new and renewing locations to them. SD-WAN ties it together operationally. A broker can source and standardize across all your addresses at once \xE2\x80\x94 see our connectivity services.
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