Looking to Reduce IT Costs…Optimize Network Traffic

In these days of pinching pennies and saving dimes, the best way to help your organization is to find ways to reduce costs. Do you know which network resources are costing you the most? Answering this question can lead to optimizing network traffic and cutting costs.

For instance, the cost of LAN traffic within your office is usually fairly affordable, however, once the packets hit the WAN, the price tag increases significantly.

You can use Netflow to identify which network resources are adding the most to your monthly bill. Start monitoring the circuits that make up the majority of your high cost list with Netflow and you might find some network efficiencies that lead to savings that have a big financial impact.

To find cost savings, I use a network management tool, dopplerVUE, that has a bandwidth locator that sorts and finds top bandwidth users in networks. dopplerVUE provides Netflow support to give you multiple ways to view traffic in your network.

If you want more details on where all your traffic is going and how to configure Netflow to give you the answers, check out this recent post.